Renee Good Endangered Her Life and Yours
14th January 2026
Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting—then years of elevated criminal violence—should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading.
Like the killing of George Floyd, Good’s tragedy is being exploited for a political purpose, with the radical activists who then called for defunding the police now demanding an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement—not only the agency, ICE, but the enforcement of the nation’s democratically enacted immigration laws.
It’s the protesters’ veto, an assertion by activists of a right to cancel laws they don’t like.
And it’s already cost lives, including Renee Good’s.
She was shot and killed by an ICE officer when she drove her car toward him.
Why was she having any interaction with ICE at all?
She wasn’t a bystander—she and her wife were activists trying to prevent ICE from doing its job.
“We had whistles, they had guns,” Good’s widow said in a statement that reveals more than she intended.
Law-enforcement officers are supposed to have guns, after all—they risk their lives when they confront criminals.
But the whistles?
Their purpose is to alert the criminals that law enforcement is approaching.
The Goods had whistles to help illegal immigrants evade officers of the law.