Irish rock band U2 invoked Renee Nicole Good — the anti-ICE agitator gunned down by federal agents in Minnesota last month — in their new song “American Obituary,” while calling for a “rise against the people of the lie.”
The Grammy Award-winning band’s controversial jam is the first track on their EP “Days of Ash,” published Wednesday, honoring the Minneapolis mother of three who was killed while impeding immigration officials.
“Renee Good born to die free
American mother of three
Seventh day January
A bullet for еach child, you see”
U2’s song “American Obituary” features the Statue of Liberty wrapped in barbed wire and a photo of Renee Nicole Good. APThe song states the time, 9:30 a.m., as the approximate time Good was shot three times on a Minneapolis street.
“The color of her eyе
930 Minneapolis
To desecrate domestic bliss
Three bullet blasts, three babies kissed
Renee the domestic terrorist”
Trump administration officials, including Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, described Good as a “domestic terrorist” after the shooting.
The “anti-ICE warrior” had been accused of “stalking and harassing” ICE agents earlier in the day before she was caught on video blocking a street for several minutes before federal agents pulled up on the road.
One of the officials got out and ordered Good to move her car. She refused before the agent walked around the car.
U2 performs at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec, 8, 2019. Getty Images
Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer during an ICE operation in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. Facebook/ODU English DepartmentGraphic footage from the scene captured the moment Good appeared to plow into the officer just seconds before multiple shots were fired through her window.
Four shots were fired at Good including three that struck her in the chest, arm, and head. The fourth bullet grazed her.
“What you can’t kill can’t die
America will rise
Against the people of the lie
I love you more
Than hate loves war
I love you more
Than hate loves war”
In the song, the band claims immigration operations allegedly targeted places of worship, schools and streets where children were around.
“In the streets with children playing
In the churches where they’re praying
School teachers are explaining
America, America
The power of the people!”
“Days of Ash” was a surprise project from the band released on Ash Wednesday. AP
The release by the legendary group – consisting of Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. – joined dozens of other musicians in releasing songs protesting the Trump administration. WireImage“Days of Ash” was a surprise project from the band released on Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lenten season for Christianity, marked by fasting, prayer, and ashes placed on the foreheads of worshippers in the shape of a cross.
The legendary group — consisting of Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. — joined dozens of other musicians in releasing songs protesting the Trump administration’s illegal immigration crackdown, including the operation in Minnesota.
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Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Bad Bunny, and the Dropkick Murphys have all been vocal against Trump and federal immigration officials.
Springsteen’s new song “Streets of Minneapolis” depicts how “a city aflame fought fire and ice ’neath an occupier’s boots,” which Springsteen calls “King Trump’s private army.”
Video posted to Twitter shows the scene where Renee Nicole Good was allegedly shot by a federal agent after trying to flee capture by ICE in the South Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.
The Boss says he wrote the song a day after Alex Pretti, another anti-ICE protester, was fatally shot by US Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 24.
“It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors, and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good,” he wrote, naming the two victims.
Eilish shouted “F–k ICE” and claimed “no one is illegal on stolen land” during her acceptance speech for Song of the Year at the 68th annual Grammy Awards.
