This was an avoidable tragedy. An ICE agent had a split second to determine if he was going to be hit or defend himself. A woman is now dead. Minneapolis is in an uproar. And Democrats are stirring the pot.

On Wednesday, a protest against ICE in Minneapolis became the scene of an officer-involved shooting, when a woman who was in the “lead car” at the protest did not listen to law enforcement instructions, and either intentionally or unintentionally hit an ICE agent with her Honda Pilot. That agent opened fire, killing the driver, who has now been identified as 37 year old Renee Nicole Good (formerly Macklin). Good was apparently originally from Colorado, where she was married and had one son. Her husband is now deceased, and she moved to Missouri. She was then involved with a woman who referred to Good as “her wife” and they were in Minneapolis, along with Good’s son. The move to Minneapolis was apparently recent, and this woman was also involved at the scene of the protest.

A blood-covered woman who identified herself as the wife of Renee Nicole Good hysterically blamed herself for her partner’s killing at the hands of ICE agents, gut-wrenching footage shows.

The woman was filmed distraught and sobbing just steps from Good’s wrecked car in Minneapolis Wednesday morning, as a neighbor who heard the commotion asked her what happened.

“I made her come down here, it’s my fault,” the woman said through sobs. “They just shot my wife.”

“They shot her in the head. I have a 6-year-old in school,” she appeared to say.

Video shows the woman who said she was Good’s wife filming the ICE protest, and witnesses confirmed that Good was the lead car at this protest.

There were many, many videos of the protest, the car, and the shooting circulating on social media almost immediately after it happened. It seems pretty clear that the ICE agent acted in defense of his own life.

Officer draws his gun only after she switches from reverse to drive. Look at the wheels. He realizes she is going to come at him while he’s still in front of her driver’s side headlight. https://t.co/0JCbo5f9mq

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) January 7, 2026

And even media was admitting that yes, Good hit the agent with her car, and at that point, he had the right to use lethal force.

The bottom line is that this shooting was avoidable, because Renee Nicole Good should have complied with law enforcement. But don’t tell Democrats that. They are out to make political hay out of what happened in Minneapolis, and they don’t care what happens next. The Democrats are out to change the narrative from the massive fraud investigation, and state leaders – along with national Democrats – are calling an audible to make a gigantic PIVOT! turn.

Mayor Jacob Frey, who presided over Minneapolis the last time it burned, ran to the cameras first.

“Get the f— out of Minneapolis,” he said during a news conference. “We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt, families are being ripped apart.” Frey also called the DHS statement that the shooting happened in self-defense “garbage.”

Governor Tim Walz, who had to drop his reelection bid just this week, poured fuel on the flames by suggesting that what had happened was an impending civil war.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday the state’s National Guard was prepared to deploy if necessary following the fatal shooting of a woman during a federal immigration enforcement operation, saying, “We’ve never been at war with our federal government.”

During a news conference, Walz said he issued a warning order to the Guard, meaning an initial step to increase preparations should troops be needed amid heightened tensions after Wednesday’s shooting.

“We are preparing the National Guard,” he said. “They are prepared to be deployed if necessary.”

Tim Walz just suggested his state is “AT WAR with our federal government.” pic.twitter.com/Z0oXZn5kYy

— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) January 7, 2026

Zohran Mamdani decided to chime in, because why? Because he thinks he’s important, that’s why.

This morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis—only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty.

As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) January 7, 2026

AOC claimed it was “murder” and said she wants the ICE agent prosecuted.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called the fatal shooting Wednesday in Minneapolis a “murder,” while calling for the ICE agent involved in the incident to be arrested.

“This has now turned into what our greatest fear is and has been for a long time around ICE – that this will be used as an anti-civilian force, that it has no accountability,” she told reporters. “At the end of the day, what we saw today is a murder. And murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.”

Ocasio-Cortez said the incident was the “manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare,” which she described as “their government turning into a tyranny.”

And in automatic response to these inflammatory comments, the protests began. Social media began calling for riots. A downtown Minneapolis federal building had glass doors smashed. All the usual suspects rallied for the omnicause.

At 1:24 p.m., the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, a fixture in left-wing protests, announced an “emergency rally” in New York City’s Foley Square for Thursday. The rally was also promoted by a group dubbing itself “NYC ICE Watch.”

Indivisible, the Democratic Party-aligned nonprofit and PAC that was at the forefront of protests against Tesla and the Trump administration, shared a picture on Instagram of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agency oversees ICE, with two Xs over eyes, a symbol often used to portray someone as dead.

“Kristi Noem get the f*ck out of NYC right now,” the post read in both English and Spanish. The post was shared by 50501, a newly established organization that played a lead role in the #NoKings protest against President Trump.

“EMERGENCY ALERT. THIS IS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK MOMENT!” wrote 50551 on Instagram at 11:50 a.m.

Indivisible’s post echoed the language of Frey, who had moments earlier called on ICE to “get the f— out of Minneapolis.”

At 2:44 p.m., Refuse Fascism, a socialist organization active in protests against Israel and the Trump administration, posted a message on Instagram decrying the incident.

“From Venezuela to the streets of Minneapolis, the trump [sic] regime murders and demonizes whole peoples and countries without any pretense of the rule of law,” the group wrote.

At 3:33 p.m., the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Columbus, Ohio, called for an “emergency protest from Columbus to Minneapolis.”

“ICE out! ICE has murdered a legal observer in Minneapolis,” the Instagram post read. “We fight back!”

At 3:06 p.m., the Palestinian Youth Movement, which organized campus protests following the Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas, weighed in.

“The time is rise and resist is now (sic),” the group posted on Instagram.

And to top it all off, Minneapolis decided to cancel school for the next two days. Why? SAFETY.

When law enforcement defends itself from being murdered and your city has to cancel school because of fear the illegal alien activist left will riot in anger over law enforcement not being dead. https://t.co/Tt4sX70Wyi

— Sunny (@sunnyright) January 8, 2026

Why, it’s as if they are hoping and depending on there being some full-scale riots!

Minneapolis (Jan. 7) — A large crowd of leftists, communists, open-border radicals and Democrats are marching to condemn ICE after an agent shot dead a rioter who accelerated her SUV toward him. These are the same people who supported the deadly 2020 riots.pic.twitter.com/rNdAWJCnek

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 8, 2026

After all, if there are actual riots, then the narrative is different. Minneapolis, and Minnesota at large, will point at ICE being big bad meanies and attempt to duck and dodge the continuing investigations into widespread fraud. The Democrats are desperate to change the narrative to avoid being held accountable for that fraud – to the point where they see no problem using inflammatory rhetoric to stir up the activist mobs and shut down schools in the process, just to prove that they have control. Good thing there are so many empty daycares in Minneapolis where the kids can go today and Friday, right???

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