Justice for Renee Good

Socialist Party USA Condemns Murder by Federal Agent in Minnesota

In what may be the clearest example of our entry into an era of naked fascist violence, ICE murdered a legal observer of one of their raids in Minneapolis, Minnesota yesterday as she was attempting to comply with orders to move from where her car was positioned.

Her name was Renee Good. She was shot multiple times from the front, side, and back. Video footage confirms that no ICE agents were in any immediate danger from Good. It is also clear that the biggest dangers to the public at that moment were an agent wildly shooting a gun into a crowded neighborhood, even in the direction of other agents, and killing a driver whose car became a torpedo aimed directly at other cars and a telephone pole.

Since then, the Department of Homeland Security has provided a sickening response. In it, Kristi Noem blamed Good, portraying her as a violent actor when she was in fact observing the scene legally, for her own death by execution. Noem absolved the murderer who was filmed as he fired each shot. Finally and most shockingly, Noem fabricated a story of agents being in immediate danger from Good and saved by the lethal gunfire of the other agent, who has since been identified as Jonathan Ross. All of this was done despite clear video evidence showing a woman being executed while she attempted to remove herself from a scene she was told to leave.

The Socialist Party USA stands in shock and anger with millions of Americans at ICE's actions. We are just as shocked and angry at the federal government's attempts to cover for murderers and lie to our faces as they escalate from eroding our civil liberties to taking our very lives.

The Socialist Party USA demands the immediate arrest of Jonathan Ross, as well as the full cooperation of the FBI with Minnesota investigators who have so far been shut out. We demand that the state government of Minnesota take all measures to protect the rights and dignity of its citizens from any and all federal hostilities. Failure to do so is an abdication of the fundamental responsibility of a government. Failure to do so should communicate to everyone the illegitimacy of this liberal republic that demands citizens' loyalty but provides no protection as it yields to fascist takeover.

Passed by the SPUSA National Executive Committee January 9, 2026