ICE Won’t Stop Shoving Guns in People’s Faces

Renee Good’s murder was the deadly culmination of the past year in which ICE and other federal agents pointed their guns and even shot at US citizens in dozens of cases around the country.

ICE Immigration Protest

An ICE officer points a weapon at protesters on E Alondra Blvd. in Los Angeles, June 7, 2025. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)


Last Wednesday’s murder of Minneapolis mother Renee Good at the hands of federal deportation agents has shocked the nation. Many have expressed horror and outrage that an officer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has almost no legal authority over Americans, would point a gun at and threaten a US citizen, let alone pull the trigger and kill her. Since then, federal agents have continued a spree of violence in the city, last night shooting a man and sending six children to the hospital.

But Good’s murder was not the first incident in which ICE and other deportation agents have aimed firearms at or threatened lethal force against US citizens and other unarmed people. In fact, it is not even the tenth or twentieth.

Jacobin has identified more than two dozen instances over the past year in which ICE agents have drawn or pointed their guns at people, almost all of them US citizens. This count doesn’t include the more than half-dozen shootings of noncitizens that have happened over the past few months, including the fatal September shooting of an undocumented immigrant in Chicago, which experts told the Washington Post was the result of agents serially violating their own training and guidelines to put themselves in danger.

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