DENVER — An unarmed 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, was from Colorado. Family members spoke to local news outlets confirming Good once lived in the Colorado Springs area.
According to news reports, Good was a mother of three, her youngest child, just 6-years-old. Her family told reporters she was a kind, loving mother, poet and partner who had recently moved to Minnesota after briefly living in the Kansas City area.
The shooting happened a day after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent more than 2,000 federal immigration agents into Minnesota as part of what it called “the largest DHS operation” to happen in the state.
The ACLU of Colorado joins ACLU National, and the ACLU of Minnesota in condemning the violent, tragic, and unnecessary killing of Good and in the call for a halt to the massive escalation of immigration enforcement across the country immediately.
“Since the start of 2025, ICE has been targeting communities with heavily armed agents and using brutal tactics with no regard for federal or state laws. We are devastated and deeply concerned over what has happened in Minnesota to a woman that had family here in Colorado,” said Peter Simonson, ACLU of Colorado interim executive director. “The ACLU of Colorado will continue to fight against ICE’s unlawful actions in the court and through community organizing, in hopes of preventing their rampant abuses and another tragic shooting like we’ve just witnessed in Minnesota. The killing of Good should never have happened.”
The ACLU of Colorado also condemns the disinformation — amplified by President Trump, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and White House adviser Stephen Miller — that seeks to distort the incident as ‘domestic terrorism.’
The ACLU of Colorado joins the demand for Congress to put an end to ICE’s reckless immigration raids in the country and to oppose any further funding of ICE’s enforcement actions. If you also want to act, you can send a message to the U.S. House and Senate to join the call to Congress.