This morning, ICE agents carrying out one of their gestapo operations in a Minneapolis neighborhood shot and killed a woman in a car. Renee Nicole Good was 37 years old, a U.S. citizen, and one of the “community observers” opposing the ICE action.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed “rioters” began blocking ICE agents, and that one of those protesters “weaponized” her car, aiming it at the agents, and an officer fired “defensive shots.” They called her a "domestic terrorist." Trump backed up this justification for the killing in a social media post, and called the victim a “professional agitator.” But as local news station KARE 11 reported, “Numerous video posts circulating on social media are... challenging the DHS narrative, however, with several graphic videos showing the interaction between the vehicle and agents and the moment shots are fired before the vehicle crashes. A witness told KARE 11 that the victim was trying to flee from ICE agents when she was shot dead.” 

Jacob Frey, Minneapolis mayor, said, “They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is bullshit."

This is not the first time ICE has fired at people protesting them. In Chicago in October, ICE goons shot a woman who was part of a protest “caravan” tailing them as they carried out their criminal attacks on immigrants. ICE then claimed she had tried to ram their agent—when, in fact, the agent’s body cam footage showed that the woman did not threaten the agent. In fact, the footage shows him screaming at her, “Do something bitch,” and then pulling over and shooting her five times!

And across the country, these armed thugs are carrying out the Trump fascist regime’s campaign of mass terror and brutality against immigrants, and anyone coming to their support, in city after city. This morning’s shooting in Minneapolis comes in the midst of the latest ICE “surge”—2,000 ICE agents mobilized in what DHS calls its biggest operation yet. This ICE “surge” in Minneapolis, which has the largest concentration of people of Somalian descent in the U.S., comes in the wake of Trump’s declaration that all Somali immigrants should be deported, calling them “garbage” and saying they should “go back to where they came from” and that “their country is no good for a reason.”

According to another local news report, “A large throng of protesters gathered at the scene after the shooting, where they vented their anger at the local and federal officers who were there, including Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.” Mayor Frey said, "We are demanding ICE leave the city and state immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities."

This cold-blooded ICE murder must be met with condemnation and protest across the country. And this latest ICE gestapo outrage puts even more urgency to the demand: Trump Fascist Regime Must Go NOW!