Editorial: Cold as ICE
By • January 12, 2026 2 234
On Wednesday, Jan. 7, a 37-year-old woman was shot three times while in her car on a snow-dusted street in Minneapolis. Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She was a poet and the mother of three children, including a 6-year-old boy.
She wasn’t killed by some random “bad guy” or by an undocumented “drug-peddling immigrant.”
She was killed in cold blood by her own government, whose depraved brutality plays out daily throughout the U.S., disappearing mothers, fathers and children, in some cases American citizens, to black sites and prisons around the world.
It has been reported that Immigration & Customs Enforcement officers prevented emergency responders, including a doctor, from rendering aid, thus ensuring Good’s undignified, wholly unnecessary death.
That all this happened the day after a horrific anniversary — the Jan. 6 Trump-incited insurrection — makes this especially painful. Our fall into chaos has been swift.
Unsurprisingly, dog- and goat-killer Kristi Noem has defamed Good as a domestic terrorist. The president, high on his recent kidnapping in Venezuela, called her “a professional agitator” and defended the ICE officer who shot her.
We are at a turning point. Do we proceed down the path to dictatorship, or do we rise together in resistance?
Separation of powers and judicial independence no longer exist; intimidation and retribution are the order of the day. Our political parties are either MAGA cultists or yielding backbenchers. And we in D.C. are doubly victimized, with neither voice nor vote.
Say her name: Renee Nicole Good. May her memory give rise to a new day in our tragically divided nation.
Well said. Thank you.
Dear Mr. Kearney, You are pathetic. Very Un-American.