Melt ICE for Good! Agent Executes Minneapolis Mother of Three

Malik Miah

Posted January 12, 2026

January 10, Houston, TX: One of 60 demonstrations DSA held as part of a National Day of Action. (Folko Mueller)

RAGE HAS ERUPTED across the United States following the cold-blooded execution of Renee Nicole Good, 37, by Immigrant and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross on January 7 as masked ICE gangs roamed the cold streets of Minneapolis looking for suspected immigrants to snatch.

The fury of demonstrators marching in their hundreds, or thousands, in dozens of cities was inflamed by the immediate announcements of Trump officials that the shooting was a “justified self-defense” provoked by an “act of domestic terrorism.”

As other cars drove unimpeded around her vehicle, two agents approached Renee Good’s SUV. She had just dropped her six-year old son at school. She lowered her window but kept her hands on the steering wheel. Her partner, Becca Good, got out to film the incident on her phone.

Ross walked around the vehicle, taking a video with his phone. As he cleared the front of her SUV, he took out his gun, fired three shots, struck her in the face and killed her. She had been backing up, then moved forward with the vehicle wheels turned away from him. Following the shots the SUV careened down the street, hitting several cars.

Ross, a 10-year ICE veteran, returned his gun to its holster and walked away as he gestured to others to call 911. But a medical doctor who identified himself to the agents was not allowed to help. The agents hung around the scene until an emergency medical vehicle showed up but were blocked by ICE vehicles and had to walk in to get the bloody body.

All this was on citizen videos and verified by eyewitness reports to local and national media about what happened. An eyewitness had received on her mobile phone a message that ICE agents were in the neighborhood. That’s when observers including Renee and Becca arrived. Putting the spotlight on ICE agents makes them uncomfortable — and it seems that the Trump administration would like to put a stop to having witnesses around.

January 10: Despite cold and rain, 400 marched in the Pittsburgh, PA demonstration organized by DSA and endorsed by a dozen organizations. (Mel Packer)

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Renee Nicole Good a “domestic terrorist.” Vice President JD Vance called the woman’s death was “a tragedy of her own making.” Donald Trump even claimed Good used her SUV to “run over” Ross, and that he’d been hospitalized – pure lies.

At a press conference Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey refuted the administration spin that the shooting was an act of self-defense and demanded that ICE “get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Instead, Noem is sending hundreds more agents. In a highly unusual move, the Trump administration is doubling down on its lies by preventing state or local authorities from working with the FBI to jointly investigate the case. The FBI has seized the evidence.

Millions of people who have seen videos can see for themselves that this was a deliberate killing. Mass vigils and protests began that night in Minneapolis and over the next week there were more than a thousand rallies, vigils and demonstrations across the country.

Subsequent reporting has revealed that agent Ross is an outspoken white supremacist and Christian nationalist.

Murder With Impunity

Some of the larger actions had been initially called to protest the January 2 U.S. military operation in Venezuela that kidnapped Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. In that attack approximately 100 Venezuelans and Cubans were killed.

During the fall months, another 125 people have been murdered while traveling in boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, on the pretext — without any evidence — that they were “narco-terrorist drug runners.”

A government that murders people in this way will also murder the population in its own country. That is the lesson of Trump’s action in Venezuela and U.S. cities, where ICE actions have killed at least nine.

The day of Renee Nicole Good’s murder, Trump gave an extensive interview to New York Times. He maintained that Venezuelan oil rightly “belongs to the United States” and threatened Colombia, Cuba and Mexico with similar interventions.

Owning Greenland, he pronounced, was a necessity for U.S. security and the only thing that could stop him is his “own morality.”

It is becoming clear that Trump’s aggressive and racist anti-immigrant policies include murdering a citizen who dared to see immigrants as human beings.

His domestic policies, like his foreign ones, are based on military power. The use of masked ICE and Border Patrol agents, unaccountable to local or state authorities, parallels military operations that are clearly illegal.

More demonstrations against state violence have been called, especially around the Martin Luther King holiday. In addition, there are thousands of people who function, as Rene Nicole Good did, as observers, watching neighborhoods, making sure children arrive at school and leave safely, taking groceries to families who are too scared to shop for themselves.

This movement of defending one’s neighbors parallels the work of the underground railroad before the Civil War. Although observers will be painted as terrorists, like those who come with their signs to vigils and demonstrations, see the violence of this state.