Under a shower of hail and thunderstorms, over 100 people gathered at the University of New Mexico Bookstore Thursday evening for a vigil and protest after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good through her car window in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday, Jan. 7.
Protesters carried handmade signs, chanted against ICE and commemorated Good’s life during the vigil.
Good was a wife, mother, poet and legal observer of federal actions in the city, living with her six-year old son and wife in Minneapolis, according to CBS News.
Bystander video shows an ICE agent grab Good’s car door handle before another agent — identified as Jonathan Ross — fired shots from close range through her car window as she began to turn right, according to The New York Times.
President Donald Trump told the New York Times that Good “ran over” Ross and that she was "unbelievably bad behaved.”
New Mexico State Senator Harold Pope (D-23), who attended the UNM Bookstore protest, told The Daily Lobo that the Trump administration’s response to the shooting was “gaslighting.”
“Even if I didn't see it on the video, even if someone is breaking the law or doing anything, it doesn't mean you murder them, and so it's just disgusting that we've gone to this point,” Pope said.
Adam Vaagen was one of several community members who stood in the rain puddles in support of the protest.
“I'm really proud of everyone here. I'm really grateful for the amount of people that are here and it's inspiring,” Vaagen said.
Paloma Chapa is the multimedia editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at multimedia@dailylobo.com or on X @paloma_chapa88
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