ICE Out for Good

Foreword

I am grateful to Brian for writing today’s piece and for naming so clearly the shock, grief, and deep concern so many of us feel about the state of our country. If we are to remain a people committed to democracy and human dignity, we must continue to insist on truth, accountability, and justice—together.

-Katie Shaw Thompson

Anti-ICE Demonstration in Elgin, IL, on January 11t,h 2026

I want to take a moment to speak plainly about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

She was a mother.
She was a wife.
She was an American citizen.

She was trying to get home after dropping off her six-year-old child.

She was murdered—shot in the face—by federal immigration agents in the middle of her own neighborhood.

There are videos. There are witnesses. We all saw what happened.

She was surrounded by masked agents shouting contradictory commands. Her car was boxed in. The agents were not in danger. When she attempted to drive away, an agent stepped aside and fired multiple rounds through her windshield. A physician on the scene was prevented from rendering aid. She died in her vehicle.

This was not counterterrorism.

This was not self-defense.

This was a predictable result of the reckless and irresponsible use of power and force by people ill-equipped to wield either.

This tragedy is compounded by the absence of accountability for that misuse of power.

Minnesota law enforcement has been excluded from the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, preventing state authorities from conducting their own inquiry or exercising jurisdiction.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has identified the shooter as Jonathan Ross.

He is alive. He is free. And he has not been arrested.

Stephen Miller has publicly claimed that federal agents have blanket immunity and that any attempt to arrest them would itself be a federal crime. If that is the position of this administration, then it is asserting that federal agents may kill civilians without consequence.

That should alarm every American.

This was the lethal use of state power against a civilian who posed no imminent threat. And instead of accountability, we are being offered propaganda—lies. We are being told not to believe our own eyes.

Kristi Noem has labeled Renee Nicole Good a “domestic leftist terrorist.”

Donald Trump has claimed the agent acted in self-defense, asserting that she somehow weaponized her Honda Pilot—its glove box full of stuffed animals—and that the fully armed agent was “lucky to be alive.”

It’s also clear to me that he believes that any amount of dissent or disrespect to himself or his agents warrants being shot. Right-wing media insist that if she had “just complied,” she would be alive.

That logic is a lie.

Compliance is not a legal requirement for survival.

Dissent is not grounds for execution.

Driving away from armed men who lack lawful authority to detain you is not terrorism.

And even if she had broken the law, that does not grant federal agents the right to execute her. That is not how our justice system works.

In Elgin, IL, where I live, we know what these operations look like. We have watched Immigration and Customs Enforcement roll into neighborhoods, fire tear gas, and tear families apart. We are a city that is nearly half Hispanic. These tactics are not abstract to us. We have lived this trauma.

So I want to say this, as a resident of Elgin—and on behalf of so many of us:

What happened to Renee Nicole Good demands accountability.

It demands an independent investigation.

It demands arrest, prosecution, and consequences—not immunity.

We stand with Minneapolis.

We stand with Minnesota.

And we reject a country where federal agents can kill a woman in her own neighborhood and then shield themselves from the law.

Renee Nicole Good was not a terrorist.

She was an American.

And justice for her is not optional. It is her right, as a citizen of this country and as a human being.