ACLU and ACLU of Minnesota Demand Immediate Action After ICE Shoots and Kills Minnesota Woman

MINNEAPOLIS — Today, ICE agents shot and killed an unarmed 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, while she was in her car in a south Minneapolis neighborhood. The shooting happened a day after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that “the largest DHS operation ever is happening right now in Minnesota” and sent over 2,000 federal immigration officers into the state. The ACLU and ACLU of Minnesota strongly condemn this killing, and urge federal agents to withdraw from Minnesota as soon as possible and to halt these massive escalations across the country immediately.

“We are devastated by the news that ICE killed a woman this morning in Minneapolis. This tragedy is further proof that ICE is out of control, endangering our communities, and must end this operation before anyone else is brutally hurt or killed,” said Deepinder Mayell, executive director of ACLU of Minnesota. “Since the launch of ‘Operation Metro Surge’ we have witnessed a remarkable string of unlawful activity targeting Minnesota communities and Minnesota values — this affects us all. We will keep observing, documenting, and fighting for the rights of all Minnesotans.”

In July 2025, Congress voted to add an unprecedented $170 billion to the Trump administration’s already massive budget for immigration enforcement, which has funded these indiscriminate raids. Congress is now negotiating the Department of Homeland Security’s budget for the coming year which would allocate even more funding to turbocharge the Trump administration’s draconian immigration agenda.

“For months, the Trump administration has been deploying reckless, heavily armed agents into our communities and encouraging them to commit horrifying abuses with impunity, and, today, we are seeing the devastating and predictable consequences,” said Naureen Shah, director of policy and government affairs at ACLU. “Congress must rein ICE in before what happened in Minneapolis today happens somewhere else tomorrow. That means, at a minimum, opposing a Homeland Security budget that supports the growing lawlessness of this agency.”

On December 17, 2025, the ACLU of Minnesota and its partners filed Tincher v. Noem, a lawsuit challenging ICE violence and misconduct towards Minnesotans exercising their First Amendment rights to assemble, observe, and protest federal agents' immigration enforcement activities in our streets.