TRUMP INC. MURDERS UNARMEDS U$ CIVILIAN
An ICE Murder in Minneapolis and its Horrific
Aftermath
YouTube screenshot.
The fascist Trump Gestapo murder of the 37-year-old legal observer, poet, and mother Renee Nicole Good two days ago is horrific almost beyond words: three or four point-blank head shots from an ICE officer as Ms. Good was trying to move her vehicle away from the Homeland Security gendarmes who were conducting a giant racist immigration raid in Minneapolis.
(Here is a useful breakdown of the video of the police state murder by Brenna Perez)
It was a cold-blooded murder, as anyone can see with their own eyes.
Also horrific was the aftermath of the atrocity. The Atlantic reported this: “A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot.”
ICE Gestapo agents were filmed brutally and chemically attacking outraged witnesses to the murder.
An ICE agent kicked away candles placed on a vigil memorial to Ms. Good, telling an activist that he didn’t “give a fuck” about the incident.
And then there was the fascistic murder of truth regarding the murder on the part of the Trump fascist regime. Within minutes of the ICE homicide, Trump praised the shooter as a “hero,” absurdly claiming that the victim was a “radical Leftist” trying to kill one of his officers. Trump would later preposterously claim that he saw Ms. Good “run over the ICE agent,” putting the agent in a hospital!
There’s the standard authoritarian lies and then there’s the batshit crazy fascist lies, like that one and like Trump’s deranged Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem’s claim that ICE officers were trying to “push their vehicle out of the snow” (the streets were clear) when they were attacked by “terrorists” and compelled to defend themselves with lethal force.
Nobody should be surprised by the murder and its aftermath including the deranged lies.
Listen to the world view recently articulated by the supreme Republi-Nazi Stephen “We are the Storm” Miller, Trump’s top political operative and the leading advocate and architect of the regime’s Amerikaner-fascist ethnic cleansing program. Explaining to CNN why the Trump regime will in his view rightly seize the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland, Miller said this: “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else But we live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world.”
That is the language of Joseph Goebbels and Adolph Hitler, trumping the rule of law with the rule of violent men – pure force and lethality over decency and legality. That was the mindset of the masked thug who murdered Ms. Good yesterday and of the ICE gendarmes who sprayed poison gas at the murder’s outraged witnesses.
ICE is the Gestapo of the Trump fascist regime. It is a vast racist terror machine ready, willing, and able to kill not just brown-skinned folks but white people who get in the way of its white supremacist and xenophobic nationalist rendition, detention, and deportation program.
More than thirty people have died in ICE’s concentration camps so far. It was just a matter of time until Trump’s Gestapo murdered a US citizen resisting the regime’s fascist fugitive slave-catching operation.
Lies? Of course. Like other fascist regimes, the Trump order is built on and all about rampant and mind-boggling untruthfulness, the constant insidious inversion of reality. A chilling example is the terrifying White House webpage the regime put up one day before the murder in Minneapolis to honor the fascist thugs of January 6, who tried to cancel an election outcome at the behest of their Dear Leader Mein Trumpf. It is a monument to the brazen and blatant reversal of objective historical reality. Making Orwell blush with upside-down falsification of the past, it:
+ Says that the overwhelmingly accurate claim that January 6 was an attempted right-wing insurrection is a radical left “lie” and the that pro-Trump folks in and around the US Capitol that day were “peaceful protesters.”
+ Claims “the Democrats staged the real insurrection.”
+ Accuses Capitol Police of violently attacking “crowds of peaceful protesters, injuring many and deliberately escalating tensions.”
+ Claims that Capitol Police “inexplicably remov[ed] barricades, opening Capitol doors, and even waving attendees inside the building—actions that facilitated entry—while simultaneously deploying violent force against others.”
+ Insanely depicts Trump as an agent of calm who “repeatedly call[ed] for peace” on J6.
+ Blames then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the assault on the Capitol.
+ Depicts the violent fascist putschist Ashli Babbitt as an innocent victim of “cold-blooded murder.”
+ Claims that three other J6 protesters were killed by Capitol Police and denies that any Capitol Police officers died.
+ Says that Mike Pence failed to honor his constitutional duty to block the Congressional Electoral College count.
+ Repeats multiply, legally, and exhaustively disproven Trump claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
+ Portrays January 6 as an “FBI entrapment operation.”
+ Calls the brilliant US House January 6 Committee report on January 6 nothing more than an exercise in the partisan “demonization” of Trump.
+ Claims that Trump won a “landslide” victory in 2024.
+ Attributes the pretend “landslide” to “Patriotic Americans” and “God’s unmistakable grace.”
All of this is completely and insanely false. War is Peace, Black is White, Love is Hate and 2+2=5 because Big Brother says so!
Please see and spread the two following videos I put up yesterday on why this fascist murder in Minneapolis needs to become the spark for a mass sustained popular movement calling for the removal of the Trump fascist regime:
The Trump Gestapo Outrage in Minneapolis Needs to Spark a Mass Sustained Uprising from Coast to Coast https://paulstreet.substack.com/p/the-trump-gestapo-outrage-in-minneapolis
How ’bout We Get Serious about What We’re Up Against? https://paulstreet.substack.com/p/how-bout-we-get-serious-about-what
Murder in Minneapolis: Time to Stop Coddling the ICE Gang and Its Enablers
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
On January 7, gang members — gathered in Minneapolis for the purpose of abducting immigrants and cowing the state’s population — menaced motorist Renee Nicole Good, then murdered her when she attempted to flee.
This wasn’t the ICE gang’s first murder, and won’t likely be its last.
ICE, its allied gangs — “Homeland Security,” “Customs and Border Protection,” et al. — and its shot-callers (e.g. Kristi “Ice Barbie” Noem, Greg “Lying Poltroon” Bovino, and Tom “$50k Cash in a Paper Bag Isn’t a Bribe” Homan) are at war. They’re at war with America, and they’re waging that war on Americans. The presence of immigrants on US soil is the excuse, not the point.
How should Americans go about defeating this armed and dangerous domestic enemy?
The first thing to understand about the conflict is that it’s “asymmetric.”
The evildoers are a centrally commanded paramilitary force. Yes, they’re violent wannabes who are too lazy, incompetent, or evil to find real jobs, but their sociopath bosses give them effectively unlimited funding and access to advanced weaponry.
The forces of good, on the other hand, are everyday Americans (and immigrants) who’d really rather be left alone to make their livings doing productive work. No central command. No guaranteed paychecks courtesy of the nation’s tax slaves. Few automatic weapons.
Believe it or not, that asymmetry can actually work to the benefit of the good guys.
As satisfying — and as justified — as it would be to send these hoodlums home in body bags when they get violent, another recent incident in the Minneapolis area shows a more peaceful, and more effective, way forward.
“If you are with DHS or immigration, let us know as we will have to cancel your reservation,” read a January 2 email from Lakeville’s Hampton Inn Hilton (the ICE gang redacted the identity of the recipient in its whining post on X). “Please pass on this info to your coworkers that we are not allowing any immigration agents to house on our property.”
Unfortunately, the hotel’s owners, Everpeak Hospitality, backed down, and Hilton Hotels apologized, groveled, and canceled its franchise agreement with Everspeak.
As Hilton likes to tell us, “It Matters Where You Stay.” I can’t help but wonder if Renee Nicole Good’s murderer spent the night before his crime enjoying Hampton’s “light and warmth of hospitality.”
Setting this specific murder aside for a moment, given the high proportion of immigrants who work in the hospitality industry, why would ANY hotelier want to host a violent gang which focuses on targeting its employees? And why would any non-violent, non-gang-affiliated patron want to rent a room there?
Ostracism can be more effective than violence.
If ICE gang-bangers start finding that they can’t rent hotel rooms, get served at coffee shops, receive communion at churches, or find play dates for their kids with decent people’s kids, they’ll be incentivized modify their behavior, abandon the thug life, and seek real jobs.
But getting there will take some peaceful pressure from normal people … perhaps starting with a boycott of Hilton-affiliated hotels.
Millions have seen the video, but some reports suggest that you should not believe your eyes that saw ICE agents murder Renee Nicole Good as she attempted to slowly move her car away from them.
What you are instructed to believe, according to Donald Trump (USA Today, 1/7/26), and those in media who obey him, is that Good was “a professional agitator,” who was “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”
You’re to understand that Good was engaged in “an act of domestic terrorism,” according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (PBS NewsHour, 1/7/26), and that “an officer of ours acted quickly and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him.”
‘Deep divide’
NPR (1/8/26) underscored the idea that you should wait before decrying a murder, saying reactions to the killing “reflect outrage over Good’s death and a deep divide in how it’s portrayed—as either a tragic abuse of power or an officer acting in self-defense.”
Only after setting up readers up with six paragraphs of (relevant, we’re to understand) details about how officer Jonathan Ross had previously “sustained injuries’ from “an anti-ICE rioter” who was a “Mexican national,” NPR allowed as how Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison “disagrees with Noem’s characterization of Good as a domestic terrorist.”
In the 13th paragraph, we get the mayor of Minneapolis: “Frey said of the self-defense explanation, ‘Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody that is bullshit.’”
Did the NPR reporters see the video themselves? Can they tell us whether or not this is bullshit? How exactly do they define the job of reporting?
‘Before facts could be established’
The New York Times (1/8/26) seeks points for having “pressed” Trump on what he insists is reality—”We Pressed Trump on His Conclusion About the ICE Shooting” read the headline—and for printing that he showed a “reflexive defense of what has become a sometimes violent federal crackdown on immigration.”
Setting aside whether there is a crackdown on “immigration” or on some and not other immigrants, that supposed journalistic bravery has to battle in Times readers’ minds with the textbook garbage they also put forward with the piece by Kurt Streeter headed “Video of ICE Shooting Becomes a Political Rorschach Test” (1/7/26).
That piece explained that you can’t really know what you saw, or what it means, because “in a polarized country, high-ranking officials were offering definitive, and starkly contrasting, accounts long before the facts could be established.”
The Times sees its role as telling you that whether or not you believe Renee Good deserved to be murdered depends on whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican. Someone should tell them that millions of Americans are over that old line.
But still, for the New York Times, you are to ignore what you saw, and ponder:
Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him? Was he positioned in front of the vehicle or to the side? Did he have a genuine, reasonable fear for his life in that moment, or did he create the very danger he then used lethal force to escape?
That pondering of never-answered questions, you see, is what smart people do. It leads to nothing changing, which is convenient, but you can always say you thought deeply and from all sides.
Not like those “political leaders” who “deliver[ed] their verdicts within hours.” Or like all of us evidently unsophisticated people did in reaction to the slow-motion murder of George Floyd. We are all, the Times says, doing wrong by picking a pro– or anti–state-sanctioned murder side, when “facts are not established, but the first words from political leaders are conclusive and set the frame—and with it, the battle lines.”
Even the Trump-pandering Washington Post (1/8/26) was able to perform the basic function of journalism by describing the reality shown in the video. Its headline stated: “Video Shows ICE Agent in Minneapolis Fired at Driver as Vehicle Veered Past Him.”
But the subhead had to say that the video “raises questions about claims by President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.”
Corporate media are demanding we ignore what we see and only listen to what they say.
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
(Robin Lubbock/WBUR via Labor Politics)
Renee Nicole Good’s murder by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has left millions of Americans wondering how we can stop ICE from terrorizing our communities any further. There are many well-known ICE-fighting tactics that we can and should use, like protests, know-your-rights trainings, and neighborhood watches. But two recent victories show a promising, relatively underutilized path forward—one that deserves to be pursued further: we can target businesses to break from ICE.
ICE relies heavily on the private sector to help carry out its Gestapo-like crusade against immigrants and their allies. Without the logistical, financial, and political support of business, its capacity to terrorize our communities would crumble.
Over the past week, activists around the country successfully pushed Avelo Airlines to stop running deportation charter flights, and workers in Minneapolis pushed a local Hilton affiliate to stop renting rooms to ICE agents. But these wins are just a fraction of what could be achieved if the millions of people who are outraged by ICE’s thuggery organize to pressure all companies to stop working with ICE.
Anti-authoritarian scholars and organizers stress that the most important thing for pro-democracy movements to do is to peel away a regime’s “pillars of support.” Even the most despotic of regimes can’t rule without the backing or consent of powerful external institutions. Businesses are society’s most important non-state institutions, and most of the biggest ones in America are collaborating with Trump, making themselves a very steady pillar of support for his rule.
These mega-corporations have immense financial and political power. It may seem like there’s nothing to be done to bring them to heel. But the successes with Avelo Airlines and the Minneapolis Hilton—as well as earlier pressure campaigns like the #Tesla Takedown, the fight to force Disney to rehire Jimmy Kimmel, and the boycott of Target over its Trump-friendly anti-DEI moves—show the immense leverage that consumers and workers have when provided an opportunity. We are not powerless, and there are concrete actions anyone can take to start eroding Trump’s support from big business.
Consumer pressure campaigns can start with petition gathering and social media callouts, then escalate to coordinated one-day boycotts. Workers have even more leverage: employees can circulate internal petitions calling on their CEOs to cut ties with ICE and organize collective actions like sick-outs.
Tactics can include rallies in front of targeted stores, flyering customers about a company’s ICE contracts or collaboration, and nonviolent civil disobedience that makes clear that business as usual won’t stand. Other creative ideas include setting up anonymous tip lines for employees to whistleblow on non-public ICE collaborations, pressuring job sites like Monster.com and Indeed to stop featuring ICE job listings, asking local small businesses to post “Immigrants Welcome Here” placards, and writing online reviews calling out companies’ collaboration with ICE.
The key is providing people with concrete, outwards-facing activities they can take right now, while building an escalating national campaign that can culminate in larger coordinated days of nonviolent disruption—for example, on May 1, 2026.
National online mass calls and trainings can give large numbers of people the tools they need to get started. National unions, immigrant rights groups, and organizations like Indivisible and the Democratic Socialists of America can leverage their volunteer activists and resources to help launch and support the campaign. And high-profile politicians like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chris Murphy, and Zohran Mamdani can use their platforms to build momentum around this urgent fight.
The most strategic corporate targets fall into three categories: low-lift national targets, high-lift national targets, and local targets.
Low-lift national targets are mostly public-facing companies with relatively small ICE contracts that are set to expire soon, making them particularly vulnerable to consumer and employee pressure. Campaigns against companies like these can play a crucial role in generating further momentum against ICE, Trump, and their worst corporate collaborators.
Here are some examples:Dell ($18.8 million contract with ICE for Microsoft software licenses, expiring March 2026)
UPS ($90,500 small package delivery contract with ICE, expiring March 2026)
FedEx ($1 million delivery services contract with ICE, expiring March 2026)
Motorola Solutions ($15.6 million tactical communication infrastructure contract with ICE, expiring May 2026)Comcast ($24,600 internet services contract for ICE Seattle office, expiring May 2026 — this could be a great fight for new mayor Katie Wilson to take on).
AT&T ($83 million IT and network contract with ICE, with a potential end date of July 2032).
LexisNexis ($21 million data-brokerage contract with ICE — this company is particularly vulnerable to pressure from university students and professor unions, since much of its revenue comes from colleges.)
Home Depot and Lowe’s are using AI-powered license plate readers and feeding this data into law enforcement surveillance systems accessible to ICE. Their parking lots are also regular sites of ICE raids targeting day laborers.
High-lift national targets have deeper relationships with ICE, and will be harder to pressure. But two in particular need to be tackled.Amazon provides ICE with the digital backbone for its data and surveillance operations through Amazon Web Services. Amazon’s Whole Foods stores are a rich potential target for nonviolent disruption on big days of action.
Palantir provides ICE with core data platforms that integrate and analyze information from many databases so agents can search, link, and manage deportation operations.
It will take longer to force these behemoths—the two worst corporate collaborators with ICE—to cut their ties, but it’s essential to publicize their centrality to Trump’s deportation machine.
Local targets can be found in communities across the country, where hundreds of smaller business have ICE contracts. Local activists can research and target these businesses—from contractors providing services to ICE offices to suppliers selling equipment—creating distributed pressure campaigns in every region where ICE operates. Hotels that rent rooms to ICE agents are particularly vulnerable targets, as the Minneapolis example demonstrated, and hospitality unions can play a key role in these campaigns.
Breaking companies from ICE is a winnable struggle that can put serious pressure on the administration by raising the political cost of mass deportations and damaging ICE’s ability to function. No administration can survive long without the consent of corporate America.
Obviously, the stakes are highest for our undocumented friends and family members. But this fight impacts all of us. To stop Trump’s authoritarian oligarchy, we need millions of people — well beyond our normal circles of activists — to join the fight.
Who is going to stop Trump from invading more countries and stealing the 2026 and 2028 elections if not a mass movement from below? Who is going to force politicians, whether Republicans or Democrats, to stand up for immigrant communities? Who is going to make corporations pay a price for collaborating with the Trump regime? We need to start building the organizing muscle and connective tissue now for widespread nonviolent disruption. Strategic organizing to win justice for all is the best way to honor the memory of Renee Nicole Good and the countless other victims of Trump’s inhumanity at home and abroad.
EmaiEric Blanc
Eric Blanc is an assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, the author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (University of California Press, 2025), and an organizer trainer in the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
Yesterday [January 7] an American citizen in Minneapolis was gunned down by her own government. Think about that for a moment.
The 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, was unarmed, trying to turn her car around from the armed and masked agents. Yet the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fired three shots into this innocent victim’s face. A physician tried to assist her at the scene but he was turned away by ICE.
Secretary of Homeland Security Noem quickly called it an act of “domestic terrorism” on the part of the victim. She said there were “rioters” and a “mob of agitators” at the scene. Noem said the victim was “weaponizing” her vehicle. She showed no remorse as to the death of a U.S. citizen.
None of what Noem said is remotely true. I know that because the video shows exactly the opposite. The woman was simply trying to turn her vehicle around when the officer killed her. No matter how much the administration tries to gaslight us, tapes don’t lie.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz also saw the video and said “Don’t believe this propaganda machine…We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety.”
Following the shooting Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Noem’s account of the shooting was “bullshit,” and told ICE to “get the [expletive] out of Minneapolis. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart.”
The DHS is in the middle of what it calls its “largest operation to date” in Minnesota with 2,000 agents targeting its large Somali population who President Trump has referred to as “garbage.”
With the president’s inflammatory words concerning not only Somalis but migrants in general, is it any wonder that these ICE agents are so juiced up and trigger happy? The New York Times reported that “In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”
This horrible event today in Minneapolis triggered a fifty-year memory of another time in our history when a ruthless and out-of-control president showed his insensitivity following a national tragedy.
In 1971, one year after the killing of four students at Kent State University by Ohio National Guard troops, another Republican president of dubious character, Richard Nixon, in remarking on the uprising at Attica Prison invoked those students’ deaths.
“They can talk all they want about the radicals. You know what stops them? Kill a few,” said Nixon. “Remember Kent State? Didn’t it have one hell of an effect, the Kent State thing?”
“Sure did,” answered Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman. “Gave them second thoughts.”
One can almost hear them cackling.
Nixon liked to label the anti-Vietnam war protestors as “outside agitators,” almost the exact words Noem used yesterday to describe peaceful citizens exercising their First Amendment rights. This is how Trump and his loyalists view those of us pushing back against a heartless immigration policy that is tearing our nation to shreds and dragging us into an authoritarian police state.
Will there be an independent, fully transparent investigation into this latest shooting of an American citizen? Not at the federal level. We cannot trust anyone in the Department of Justice. Attorney General Pam Bondi does not represent our interests, nor does she adhere to the Constitutional oath she swore to uphold. She is only beholden to her one client: Donald J. Trump. Her slavish subservience ensures that this administration can do anything—even murder its own citizens—and not be held accountable.
We are under siege. Our neighbors being snatched from their homes and work places. They are being disappeared into detention centers like Alligator Alcatraz in Florida, or shipped off to the hellish Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador. Meanwhile, ICE is on a hiring spree, doling out hefty sign-on bonuses and only doing cursory training of its new agents. We are witnessing the results in real time.
Not even a full year into his presidency, Donald Trump’s actions are reshaping the United States into a callous country that promotes aggression, violence and lies.
Is this how it felt in Germany in the 1930s?
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