ICE Shot a Woman Dead — Then Lied About What Happened

Renee Good’s death wasn’t an accident or self-defense. It was the predictable result of a militarized deportation force operating with impunity on American streets.

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People gather at a makeshift memorial for 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed at point-blank range on January 7 by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images)


Yesterday’s news out of Minnesota has been shocking, with the death of a Minneapolis woman at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. As Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, and ICE itself all explained, while doing their jobs, ICE agents were suddenly surrounded by “violent rioters,” and one of them decided to “weaponize her vehicle” and try to kill them by running them over. Fortunately, but tragically, a quick-thinking ICE agent, fearing for his life and the lives of his colleagues, pulled out his gun and fired “defensive shots” at the car, saving all of their lives. The injured agents, ICE informed us in a statement, “are expected to make full recoveries.”

You can watch the entire, heroic sequence of events in an eyewitness video taken here:

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