The wife of Renee Good, the woman who died this Wednesday in Minneapolis after being shot several times by a Trump immigration police agent, has issued a statement in which she thanks the support received in recent days and explains that they were there supporting their neighbors.
“We had whistles, they had weapons,” says the statement about the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) that is generating so many protests in the United States. This death would be the fifth during ICE operations under Donald Trump.
According to several American media outlets, Good was a legal observer, that is, a person in charge of monitoring the actions of federal agents and ensuring that the rights of the affected people are respected. He leaves three children, the youngest of them six years old.
“We were raising our son to believe that, no matter where you come from or what you are like, we all deserve compassion and kindness (…) Renee lived by a fundamental belief: there is goodness in the world and we must do everything we can to find it where it resides and cultivate it where it needs to grow,” the statement explains.
“We honor his memory by living his values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and seeking peace, rejecting division and knowing that we must come together to build a world where we can all return home safely to the people we love,” his wife’s statement reads.
This event has caused hundreds of people to take to the streets in Minneapolis in protest against the “abuses” of ICE agents. “ICE out now! Out of the city now!” protesters chanted.
In the hours after Good’s death, the city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, publicly accused ICE of “killing people” and demanded that they leave. “What they are doing is not giving security to the United States, what they are doing is causing chaos and mistrust. They are separating families, they are sowing chaos in our cities and, in this case, they are literally killing people,” he said.
