Jan 7, 2026 / 19:32 pm
Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop Bernard Hebda on Jan. 7 pleaded for prayers and calm after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis.
Officials said the ICE officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good after what was reported as an altercation in the street in south Minneapolis. The officer reportedly fired into Good’s vehicle after she apparently attempted to drive away while surrounded by agents.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem alleged on Jan. 7 that Good was “harassing and impeding” agents prior to the shooting. Law enforcement including the FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are investigating the incident.
‘We need to lower the temperature of rhetoric’
Hebda in his statement pleaded for “all people of goodwill to join me in prayer for the person who was killed, for their loved ones, and for our community.”
“We continue to be at a time in this country when we need to lower the temperature of rhetoric, stop fear-filled speculation, and start seeing all people as created in the image and likeness of God,” the prelate said.
“That is as true for our immigrant sisters and brothers as it is for our elected officials and those who are responsible for enforcing our laws,” he continued. “I echo today the repeated call of the U.S. Catholic bishops that we come together as a nation and pass meaningful immigration reform that does justice to all parties.”
“The longer we refuse to grapple with this issue in the political arena, the more divisive and violent it becomes,” Hebda added.
The archbishop was referencing a November 2025 statement from the U.S. bishops urging immigration reform and opposing the indiscriminate mass deportation of immigrants who lack legal status.
“We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement,” the bishops said at the time. “We pray that the Lord may guide the leaders of our nation, and we are grateful for past and present opportunities to dialogue with public and elected officials.”
Officials in Minnesota responded with criticism to the shooting on Jan. 7. State Gov. Tim Walz in a post on X decried what he called the “propaganda machine” surrounding the incident, while Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said officials were “demanding ICE to leave the city immediately.”
Hebda, meanwhile, said in his statement: “It is only by working together — with God’s help — that we will have peace in our communities, state, and world.”
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She wasn’t just harassing folks. She was trying to run them over with her car in an attempt to kill them. One officer landed in the hospital.
If you interfere with legitimate law enforcement and place the lives of government law enforcement in jeopardy, expect not pity but to suffer the consequences. Let’s face facts: the Left has more blood on their hands than anyone else. The Left is not averse to murdering those with whom they disagree politically. The Left used to abide by principles of peace; they no longer do. They subscribe to principles of destroying your enemies.
Again, CNA has another TDS hit piece disguised as objective journalism. They are not at all objective.
Zerohedge posted an interesting article tonight:
Woman Killed In Minneapolis Was “ICE Watch” Left-Wing Activist Trained To Resist Fed Agents: Report
The money part:
Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.
“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday.
Good and HER WIFE Rebecca, 40, who were raising the child together and sent the boy to Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy opened in 1972 which has from its inception been “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,” according to co-founder Susie Oppenheim.
It was through her involvement in the school community that Good became involved in “ICE Watch” — a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city.
“From my understanding, she was involved in social justice … we are a tight-knit community and a lot of parents are [activists],” former Southside gym teacher Rashad Rich, who resigned from the school last month, told The Post.
Trump says it was self-defense on the premise that Ms. Good could nearly have run over the officer at the front -which is what appears in the video.
Self-defense is a proportionate response to a threat when it is reasonably imminent or viable; however, here, at the time the officer fired his weapon, the “threat” had already passed/expired and had turned unviable/null as the officer stepped aside from the car’s forward path; and the car was also being turned away from him.
The consequence for fleeing can not just so be death or deadly force. There were 3 officers right there maybe 4 and all of them could easily have shot out the tires less than 7 feet or so right in front of them. The obvious rationale at work in using the deadly force is to send a message; and that can’t be right.
In some movies you see police refrain from shooting the fleeing suspects; or merely wounding them. In more modern movies you do indeed find the police killing someone who is only merely a suspect and it gets worked into the intensity of the case and stakes at play in the investigation as if it was supposed to all make sense and moral drama.
“the “threat” had already passed/expired and had turned unviable/null as the officer stepped aside from the car’s forward path; and the car was also being turned away from him.”
I’m sorry but you don’t understand how this works. Once you threaten the constabulary,. you don’t get to say “woops”, because they have no idea what you will do to other LEOs or the public at large.
Good isn’t Ashli Babbitt (unarmed and not a threat at all). She was a victim of being wind up cannon fodder.
Reactions by the police are supposed to be proportionate to what is at hand not automatic summary retaliation inflicting death if successful.
Actually there is a difference between policing and martial law. Unless you’re telling me that in the States ICE is a martial law agency that can use deadly force on a US citizen who is conducting her escape. And in martial law it is supposed to be proclaimed and publicly advertised ahead with due warnings, “Don’t even try to tie your shoe laces without asking.”
The constabulary is not above the law. In martial law the martial officer is still answerable for use of deadly force according to prescribed tenets.
Why is ICE using deadly force on a US citizen.
That young terrorist woman would still be alive if she didn’t try to murder a Federal agent with her vehicle. That was a suicide in my opinion and very poor judgment on her part. But, then again, she was probably another trangendered male.