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Renee Nicole Good didn't have to die. But ICE isn't the enemy.

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09.01.2026

My home state of Minnesota, a beautiful place full of hardworking, kind people, continues to be at the center of the national spotlight − and not for those good reasons.

This time, it is due to the death of Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7. She was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as she appeared to attempt to drive through a group of ICE agents in her vehicle. Good, a mother of three, was a poet and a new resident of the North Star State.

About 2,000 federal agents were deployed to Minneapolis on Jan. 6 as part of the Trump administration’s most recent immigration enforcement initiative.

I am saddened and angry by what I am seeing unfold in Minnesota. After reviewing video clips, I think two things can be true at once: ICE must review this incident carefully to determine if lethal force was necessary. And Good appears to have purposefully driven into officers, violating the law by obstructing a federal enforcement operation, and faced an immediate, fatal consequence.

I'm grieved to see the death of a mother, but I am also disappointed that neither Republican nor Democratic leaders − from President Donald Trump to

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