When a Federal Agent Kills an American Mother and the President Calls Her Disorderly, It’s Time…

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was killed by a federal agent on January 7, 2026. She was a poet, mother of three, and graduate of Old Dominion University. She is survived by her partner, her three children, her mother Donna Ganger, and a community that loved her.

Renee Nicole Goods Instagram described her as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis, MN.”

Her mother called her “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”

On Wednesday morning, January 7, 2026, a masked ICE agent shot her three times in the head through her car windshield and killed her on a residential Minneapolis street. She was 37 years old. She leaves behind a 6-year-old son who is now an orphan.

Video shows what happened. An ICE vehicle stuck in a snowbank. Neighbors gathering because ICE has been “terrorizing” their community for six weeks. Good’s Honda Pilot positioned to block ICE vehicles. Conflicting orders from agents—one telling her to drive away, another screaming “Get out of the fucking car” while grabbing her door handle. Good reverses a few feet. Then drives forward. An agent fires three shots into her windshield. The car crashes.

The Minneapolis police chief arrived to find “a woman with a gunshot wound to the head.” She was pronounced dead shortly after.

Within hours, your president issued his verdict: “The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”

He added: “Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.”

There’s video. Multiple angles. The ICE agent was never run over. He stepped backward, out of the car’s path. Then walked toward the crashed vehicle after shooting. He’s not hospitalized. He filmed the entire encounter on his cell phone while holding his gun in the other hand.

The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, watched the video and said: “Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit.” He added: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said: “Don’t believe this propaganda machine.”

Your president watched the same video. When confronted by New York Times reporters in the Oval Office about the contradiction between his claims and the footage, Trump showed them the video on a laptop. After watching it himself, he said it was “horrible to watch” but refused to retract his statement that Good had “run over” the agent. He insisted “she behaved horribly.”

Let’s be clear about what happened here. An American citizen—a mother, a poet, a college graduate—was executed by a federal agent for blocking traffic. The president of the United States then blamed the victim, lied about what happened, before her body was cold. When shown video evidence contradicting his lie, he doubled down.

This is not normal. This is not politics. This is your president choosing a story that justifies killing you, then sticking to that story even when video proves it’s false.

The Pattern Is the Point

The Renee Good killing wasn’t an isolated incident. It was the fifth person killed during Trump’s immigration crackdown. DHS just announced the “largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out”—sending 2,000 agents to Minneapolis. The chaos is the goal. The violence is the strategy. The lies are the method.

Minneapolis schools canceled classes the next day. Not because of weather. Because parents feared for their children’s safety from federal agents. The city’s Saint Paul Council member described the first day of operations as “unlike any other day we’ve experienced.”

Good wasn’t the target of any enforcement. The police chief confirmed that. She was a neighbor who showed up when ICE got stuck. She was “caring for her neighbors,” according to the City Council. That’s what got her killed.

Her 6-year-old son’s grandfather told reporters: “There’s nobody else in his life. I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come and get my grandchild.”

The president called his mother “disorderly…blah blah” who “viciously ran over” an ICE agent.

That’s a lie. Video proves it’s a lie. Your president knows it’s a lie. He told it anyway.

Where Is the Outrage?

This is the second essay in two days documenting how our president hates us. Yesterday we showed how Trump administration policies on guns and alcohol prioritize his family’s business interests over your life. Today we’re documenting how federal agents kill American citizens and the president lies to justify it.

I’m feeling as if I’m living alternate reality. How about you?

Where is our uprising? Where are the masses? Where is the rage commensurate with a government that kills its own citizens and lies about it?

Minneapolis held a candlelight vigil. Thousands gathered. That’s beautiful – and insufficient.

We need national disruption. We need sustained resistance. We need Americans in every city to understand that what happened to Renee Good could happen to anyone who gets in the way of Trump’s paramilitary force.

Because that’s what ICE has become under Trump—an unaccountable, masked, armed force operating on American streets, killing American citizens, lying about it, and facing zero consequences.

This Is the Test

Every authoritarian regime has a moment where citizens must choose: Do you accept state violence against your neighbors, or do you stand up?

America is in that moment right now.

Renee Good was shot three times in the head by a federal agent for blocking traffic. The president lied about it. When shown proof of his lie, he refused to correct it. Instead, he blamed the victim and defended the shooter.

If we accept this, we accept everything that comes next.

If we don’t fill the streets, if we don’t shut down business as usual, if we don’t make it impossible for this government to function until there’s accountability—we’re telling them they can kill us with impunity.

What Trump Is Counting On

He’s counting on your exhaustion. On the fire hose of outrages overwhelming your capacity for sustained anger. On you thinking someone else will do something. On you believing this isn’t about you because you’re not in Minneapolis, you’re not an immigrant, you’re not blocking ICE vehicles.

He’s counting on you being complicit through passivity.

Here’s what Trump understands that most Americans don’t: Authoritarianism doesn’t start with throwing political opponents in jail. It starts with creating a class of people whose deaths don’t matter. It starts with lies that justify violence. It starts with federal agents killing citizens while the president blames the victims.

We’re past the starting line. We’re in the middle phase. If we don’t act now, we’ll wake up one day wondering how we got to the end.

Moral Clarity

This isn’t complicated. A federal agent killed an unarmed American mother. The evidence is on video. The president lied about it to justify the killing. When confronted with his lie, he refused to retract it.

There’s no both sides here. There’s no context that makes this acceptable. There’s no national security justification. There’s no “he was just defending the agent.”

An American citizen is dead. Her 6-year-old son is an orphan. The president lied about how she died to protect the agent who killed her.

If you’re not angry enough to act, you’re part of the problem.

What Action Looks Like

Not just thoughts and prayers. Not only social media posts. Not merely voting no in the next election.

Action means:

• Sustained protests in every major city, Work stoppages, Mass civil disobedience, Economic boycotts of companies that support this administration…

We know what to do now. There’s a playbook that’s worked time and time again no matter where.

The Stakes

Renee Good’s mother said her daughter “was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

Your president chose the lie. He chose to protect the shooter. He chose to blame the victim. When shown evidence of his lie, he chose to maintain it.

That’s not a mistake. That’s a strategy. The cruelty is the point. The lie is the tool. Your compliance is the goal.

Renee Good is dead. Her son is an orphan. The agent who killed her faces any consequences? The president who lied about it faces no accountability.

Unless we make it impossible for them to continue.

So what are you going to do?

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