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Renee Nicole Good was on the Minneapolis street where she was shot dead to join a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s crackdown in the area, her wife suggested Friday.

“On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns,” Rebecca Good said in a statement, according to the Washington Post.

Whistles are used by a local activist group, ICE Watch, to alert different neighborhoods of possible ICE operations.


  Rebecca Good (left) and her wife, Renee Good, in an undated photo. Instagram/Rebecca Good Rebecca Good (left) and her wife, Renee Good, in an undated photo. Instagram/Rebecca Good

  The moment of the fatal shooting seen in a video still. X/@maxnesterak The moment of the fatal shooting seen in a video still. X/@maxnesterak

  Rebecca Good seen after the shooting of her wife. Reuters Rebecca Good seen after the shooting of her wife. Reuters

“We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness,” the wife also said.

“Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine.”

The couple were thrust into the national spotlight this week when an ICE agent, identified as Jonathan Ross, fatally shot her after federal officials said she drove into the law enforcement officer with her SUV.

Local officials have decried the deadly use of force, and claimed the shooting was a “murder.”

As another agent ordered Renee out of the car, Rebecca can be heard yelling at her to drive away leading up to the gunshots.

Renee and Rebecca had moved to Minnesota within the past year, and area activists told The Post she was part of an effort to “document and resist” the ICE crackdown.

Before reaching the Gopher State, the couple lived in Kansas City, Missouri and then had their sights set on north of the border after Trump was elected in 2024, a former neighbor told the Washington Post.

“[Becca] said, ‘We’re getting out,’” former Kansas City neighbor Jennifer Ferguson said. “‘We can go to Canada until we figure out what we are going to do.’”

Ferguson added the both Renee and Rebecca were “just such nice people” and “great parents” to their son.

“They rarely left the house,” Ferguson said unless they brought their then-preschooler to school. “They were homebodies.”

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