Minneapolis, MN — Around 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning, ICE fatally shot a woman acting as an observer on 33rd St. and Portland Ave. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the FBI are investigating the killing. Hundreds of community members showed up in protest and many were met with chemical weapons deployed by federal agents, including one person who was shot directly in the face. She was later identified as Renee Nicole Good, 37.

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ICE Killing Shocks Twin Cities & Triggers Protests

Video of the shooting released from the scene shows part of a community rapid response unit that was blowing whistles and witnessing ICE actions on Portland Avenue. In the video, a maroon SUV is seen maneuvering in the street before two ICE agents get out of a truck and yell at the driver of the SUV to “get out of the fucking car” while one appears to attempt to open the door. As the driver of the SUV began driving away from the agents, a single agent standing nearby in the street shot three bullets into the windshield of the vehicle.

“Dude, you did a murder for what?” Yelled the person behind the camera.

And here's a quick-and-dirty composite of the two available videos, showing the victim's car allowing other cars to go by before pulling away.

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— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) January 7, 2026 at 12:54 PM

A large response by federal officers, including border czar Gregory Bovino, shut down Portland Ave. immediately after the shooting.

Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino on the scene at Portland and 34th Street. https://t.co/Z8pjrac2qD pic.twitter.com/8sdm6n4uGH

— daviss 📸 (@daviss) January 7, 2026

Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Minneapolis Police later responded to do crowd control as ICE left the scene. (Live video via KingDemetrius Pendleton)

The Department of Homeland Security tweeted that the victim was a “violent rioter” who “weaponized her vehicle” against ICE officers.

City leaders held a press conference after the killing.

Governor Tim Walz (D) also made a brief announcement to the media:

Walz and other state officials talked about sending notices to Minnesota National Guard members, warned that the Trump Administration could try to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to protests in the Twin Cities. Walz mentioned a Minnesota State Patrol mobile response team, and that the state Emergency Operations Center is activated (typically known as an EOC).

“I’ve issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary. I remind you a warning order is a heads up for folks and these national guard troops are our National Guard troops. […] They’re teachers in your community, they’re business owners, they‘re construction professionals, they are Minnesotans. […] It so happens [to be] a training weekend, we’ve got about 7500 troops at our sites, training sites, across the state. what it is in the National Guard is a warning order you give a heads up of something could be coming […] Since the summer of 2020 we had a lot of work done on teams being ready to make sure that civil unrest…”

Tim Walz press statement, 1/7/2026

Walz warned that the White House might try to declare martial law: “Do not take the bait. do not them allow them to deploy federal troops into here. do not allow them to invoke the Insurrection Act. Do not allow them to declare martial law. Do not allow them to lie about the security and the decency of this state and let’s let this investigation play itself out…”

Around that time in the afternoon a group of protesters marched to the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis and then headed back towards the site of the shooting. (The end of a Mercado Media stream showed the gathering at the courthouse.)

A vigil was organized for 5 p.m. on Wednesday night at 34th and Portland Ave. Unicorn Riot was on site at the vigil but cell phone network constraints prevented us from going live and from quick media uploads. An estimated 10,000 people were at the vigil.

According to the website The Trace, there have been at least 14 shootings by ICE during the Trump Administration’s ongoing crackdown.

Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, told the Star Tribune that Good was “an amazing human being.” According to this report Good and the late Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., who passed away in 2003, had a child. Timmy Ray Macklin Sr. said he was heading to Minnesota “to come and get my grandchild” who has now lost both parents.

Good previously went by Renée Nicole Macklin, and was listed as a poet in a biographic profile. In 2020 Good was “an undergraduate in the English Department at Old Dominion University in Virginia. In 2020 she made Spring Dean’s List and was the winner of the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize” at Old Dominion, according to a website that collected writing about pigs including an award-winning poem of hers (source).

A fundraiser created by Good’s wife has raised a total of $352,750 as of 2 a.m. on January 8.

After killing Good, federal agents continued their operations across the metro area. About three miles away, and during school dismissal time, Border Patrol officers got involved in more violence outside of Roosevelt High School. Students were reportedly roughed up and had to take shelter in a library while two staff members and reportedly another person were arrested and several others were injured.

The Minneapolis Public School district then cancelled classes for the rest of the week out of caution for its students.

This killing comes with over 2,000 federal agents descending on the Twin Cities in the largest immigration action in the country’s history.

This story was updated during the events of Wednesday.

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