NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JANUARY 08: U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks during …
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JANUARY 08: U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference at One World Trade Center on January 08, 2026 in New York City. Following yesterday’s fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent during a confrontation in Minneapolis, Noem addressed the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration enforcement efforts in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Robust Resistance
The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good shows that the people who have been resisting President Trump’s mass deportation push are risking their lives. However, waves of protests in the aftermath of her death show the threat is not stopping anyone from showing up. This dynamic was clear as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited New York City on Monday and was met with defiant demonstrations.
Good was killed on Wednesday in Minneapolis after an immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired into her car. In recent days, the city has been the focus of large scale ICE raids that have been fueled by far right influencers. As TPM has chronicled, the mass deportation push has increasingly been met with a robust resistance movement that includes legal observers and rapid responders who arrive on the scene of ICE operations. Witnesses said that, prior to Good’s shooting, the agents at the site had been surrounded by these rapid responders who blared whistles and blocked vehicles. Good’s car was allegedly blocking traffic before she pulled away as an agent grabbed her door.
Noem, who oversees ICE, addressed the shooting at a press conference on Thursday morning where she touted an operation that targeted the Trinitarios street gang as evidence of her agency’s focus on bringing “illegal criminal aliens to justice.” While the Trump administration has argued the deportation push is focused on the “worst of the worst” violent offenders, data shows the majority of people who have been deported have no criminal records. After Noem touted the operation, she was questioned by the assembled reporters about Good. Noem described the slain woman as a “domestic terrorist” as she reiterated false claims made by other Trump officials, including Trump himself, that Good rammed her car into the agent who subsequently killed her.
“This vehicle was used to hit this officer,” Noem said. “It was used as a weapon.”
Good’s shooting was captured on video, from multiple angles. Visual analyses of the footage conducted by multiple news organizations have concluded her car was not actually aimed at the agent when she was killed.
Activists got wind of Noem’s planned visit to New York on Wednesday evening and immediately began planning protests, including one that drew hundreds of people to Manhattan’s Foley Square that night. Noem was rumored to be appearing at 26 Federal Plaza,