On Wednesday afternoon, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents carrying out kidnapping operations in Minneapolis shot and killed a woman in her car. Unverified reports identify the woman as Renee Nicole Good, a 37 year-old US citizen, legal observer and mother.

Videos taken by local protesters show numerous ICE vehicles in the neighborhood, with local residents gathered to monitor the situation. The situation between the crowd of masses and ICE agents appeared tense; but contrary to the claim of the Old State, the masses did nothing to provoke the agents. The victim in her car was attempting to drive away from ICE agents as they swarmed the car, and one agent shoots her at point-blank range as she drives past them. 

An eyewitness reporting to Minnesota Public Radio that “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times.”¹ This marks another murder by ICE, who during operations have killed 4 people and shot at least 14. 

The Old State quickly released statements justifying the act. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) referred to the murder as a response to an “act of domestic terrorism”, claiming the agent was acting in self-defense. President Trump alleged the woman had “viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense”. The crude narrative was continued by DHS, who claimed the ICE agents had been “stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis” and were attacked by a “violent rioter”. Videos of the incident clearly show the ICE agent shooting at the woman from the side of the vehicle, out of the vehicle’s path. 

The murder, in the midst of heightened imperialist aggression on the masses, both against migrants and workers at home and against oppressed nations abroad, such as Venezuela and Latin America as a whole. As the economic crisis continues to worsen, the ruling class seeks to solve overproduction by destroying the forces of production – deportation of migrant workers included – and speeding up the tendency towards fascism. Increasingly violent measures are being employed to ensure the task of ICE is to be carried out, as demonstrated by today’s murder of an unarmed activist at the hands of ICE agents. 

Not unrelated is the United States’ recent military actions against Venezuela aiming at total control of the Venezuelan energy and mining sectors. Both the domestic offensive by ICE and the violent invasion of Venezuela demonstrate the ways in which the United States has employed violent means to resolve its declining economic situation. The imperialist State’s continued threats, such as the beginning of military actions targeting Cuba, Iran, Colombia, Mexico, and Denmark, as well as mass repression and jailing of activists domestically, should not be taken lightly.

The FBI and local Minnesota state authorities have announced a joint investigation into the murder. The Democratic Party has provided a false “opposition” throughout both Trump administrations, using legal theater and electoral bluster to create an illusion of resistance. Immediately, Democratic media and politicians have started to demand a “just” legal process against the ICE murderers using the same laws laid down by the capitalists and it’s State – which itself is organized violence against the workers and oppressed nations. On the other hand is the combative energy of the masses, who did not wait for law enforcement to discipline law enforcement, but rather chased the ICE agents away at a demonstration following the shooting.

Imperialist violence and people’s resistance 

Naked violence has always been a feature of the US capitalist State against the multinational working class and revolutionaries: from the Haymarket massacre and the Bonus Army massacre against striking workers, to the Kent State massacre against students demanding an end to imperialist war, to the genocides committed against the Black/New Afrikan, Puerto Rican, and Indigenous peoples. The blood of our martyrs have never suffocated, but only watered the rebellion of the workers and oppressed nations, who are rising up again with renewed anger and vitality. The examples of countries like China and the history of resistance of workers and the oppressed nations here inside the United States have all taught the same lesson: in opposition to reactionary violence, the people raise up revolutionary violence as the only mean to overcome it. 

Just five years ago, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was brutally murdered by the police in the same city. And it was the heroic people of Minneapolis who rose up in rebellion and revolutionary violence, burning down the local police precinct in a humiliating defeat for the Old State – the first time in modern history. With this monumental act, the masses of Minneapolis have shown their power to create history according to their own will.

This entire incident highlights the importance of neighborhood and workplace defense organizations of the immigrant masses suffering under class and national oppression. Efforts from organizations like the People’s Defense Committee to build Neighborhood Defense Units in order to “collect and spread information regarding the actions and tactics of local and federal law enforcement” and “mobilize working and oppressed people in these neighborhoods to confront them” are becoming increasingly important. Only through concrete and consistent efforts to actively combat and resist the Old State can the fury of the masses overflow. 

1. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation