Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was shot and killed while attempting to run over a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis on Wednesday, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” federal immigration operations, according to a new report.
According to a report from the New York Post, Good moved to Minneapolis last year and linked up with the anti-ICE group through parents at her six-year-old son’s charter school. The school boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” local sources told the outlet.
“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a vigil near the site of the shooting on Wednesday night.
“I know she was doing the right thing. I watched the video plenty of times but I also know in my heart the woman she was, she was doing everything right,” the woman added.
Good and her wife, Rebecca, were raising the child together in the activist-heavy neighborhood of South Minneapolis. The site were Good was ultimately shot is located about a mile from the site of George Floyd’s death in 2020.
The lesbian couple’s son attended Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy opened in 1972 which has been “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,” since its founding, according to co-founder Susie Oppenheim. Through her involvement in the school community, Good became affiliated with “ICE watch,” a coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting federal immigration operations in the Twin Cities area.
“From my understanding, she was involved in social justice … we are a tight-knit community and a lot of parents are [activists],” former Southside gym teacher Rashad Rich, who resigned from the school last month, told The Post.
Rich told the outlet that the school placed a heavy focus on the promotion of left-wing ideology in its curriculum, including the death of George Floyd. Last month, students took a field trip where they learned about the aboriginal community in Australia.
Similar “ICE Watch” groups have cropped up around the country since President Donald Trump returned to the White House last January. Such groups frequently track agents through social media and attempt to disrupt operations by blowing whistles to alert potential targets and boxing in agents with their own vehicles.
“[Renee Good] was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training,” Leesa told the New York Post. “To listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent,” she added.
The Minneapolis group started out as a loose collection of activists, but had recently merged with more established far-left organizations like Twin Cities Ungovernables, according to the report. In a recent Instagram post, the ICE Watch group encouraged agitators to bring items that would help them barricade the streets around where the shooting took place.
They were even encouraged to bring items that could easily burn, including dried up Christmas trees.
Activities from such groups have led to a 3,200 percent rise in attacks on federal agents since last year, according to DHS agents shared with The Post. In terms of vehicular attacks in particular, the department logged 28 incidents in 2025, up from just two in the prior year.
