Renee Nicole Good tragically lost her life while standing against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, as her grieving widow has recently disclosed.
Rebecca Good, speaking for the first time since the devastating event, shared her sorrow over the loss of her 37-year-old spouse, who was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan ‘Jon’ Ross just two days prior.
“We stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns,” Rebecca, 40, expressed in a heartfelt statement to the Washington Post on Friday.
The couple had been nurturing their six-year-old son to understand the importance of compassion and kindness, regardless of one’s background or appearance. “Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine,” Rebecca remarked, reflecting on Renee’s life and values.
On a Wednesday afternoon in Minneapolis, Renee was shot three times, allegedly for failing to comply with officers’ instructions to exit her vehicle.
Good, 37, was shot three times in Minneapolis on Wednesday afternoon for allegedly ignoring officers’ demands to get out of her car.
Newly released video filmed on Ross’s cellphone showed how Good and Rebecca seemingly taunted the officer in the lead up to the deadly shooting.
The couple are understood to have been part of a community watch group that was actively resisting ICE.
Rebecca and Renee Good are pictured together
The footage allegedly recorded by ICE agent Jonathan ‘Jon’ Ross shows how Renee Nicole Good (seen in her car) and her wife apparently taunted ICE agents before the fatal shooting
Rebecca’s statement seemingly confirmed the Trump administration’s claim that the couple were participating in a protest against the planned detention of Somali migrants in the area.
Witnesses have claimed Good and Rebecca were acting as legal observers and filming the protest.
Rebecca, in harrowing footage captured at the scene, admitted she encouraged Good to confront agents. ‘I made her come down here, it’s my fault,’ she cried.
Ross has been branded a ‘murderer’ by furious Democrats but has enjoyed the full support of the Trump administration, who argue he acted in self-defense when it appeared Good intended to run him down with her car.
The cell phone video showed Good smiling at Ross while sitting in her Honda Pilot on Wednesday afternoon and saying, ‘That’s fine dude. I’m not mad,’ in a video shot by the officer that was obtained by Minnesota outlet Alpha News on Friday.
Rebecca could be heard urging the agent to ‘show his face’ as she asks him, ‘You want to come at us?’
‘You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch big boy,’ Rebecca said, with her own cellphone in hand. ‘Go ahead.’
As the tension mounted on the Minneapolis street, Good was told to get out of the car but ignored the order. She began revving the engine and drove off.
Rebecca can be heard shouting ‘drive baby, drive’ as Ross’s camera jerked. It is unclear if he was struck by the car or jumped to get out of its way.
Ross fired three shots, including one through the front windshield of the Honda, which struck and killed Good. An agent is heard calling Good a ‘f***ing bitch’ as shots rang out.
Her wife, Rebecca Good, 40, can be heard urging Ross to ‘show his face’ as she asks him ‘you want to come at us?’
The cellphone footage was unveiled just hours after surveillance footage was released, showing how Good apparently blocked the road with her SUV for four minutes before she was shot dead.
The video shows how about 20 seconds after the mother of three’s maroon Honda Pilot pulled up to the street, a passenger – believed to be her wife Rebecca Good – exited the vehicle and eventually began filming.
Good then repositioned the SUV, seemingly blocking the street. The grainy video, however, shows that other cars were still able to pass around her.
Ross then arrived on the scene and was quickly joined by other federal agents who surrounded Good’s vehicle.
A federal agent began to grab at her door, allegedly ordering her to get out of the SUV. Good seemingly pulled the car forward and Ross fired three shots at her in quick succession, before she drove off.
Neither of the newly released videos show the immediate aftermath of the deadly shooting in which Good lost control at the wheel and crashed.
There is speculation that Rebecca, who admitted to bringing her spouse to the anti-ICE protest, exited the car so she could begin filming any potential clash with federal agents. She was seen wielding her camera during Ross’s confrontation with her wife but it is unclear when she first started to record.
New surveillance video shows how about 20 seconds after Good’s maroon Honda Pilot pulled up to the street, a passenger – believed to be Rebecca – exited the vehicle
This is the moment a federal agent pulled at the door of Good’s SUV, allegedly ordering her to exit the vehicle. Officials said she ignored their demands
Good was shot three times in the face at a protest in Minneapolis and died at the scene
Good’s friends told The New York Post that the mother-of-three was part of a network of activists coordinated through her six-year-old son’s charter school who were actively resisting ICE.
According to the publication, Southside Family Charter School has publicly boasted of having a ‘social justice first’ approach to learning and ‘involving kids in political and social activism’.
Good and her wife Rebecca moved to the area just last year and enrolled their six-year-old boy in classes at the school.
They are understood to have fled the US after Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, going briefly to Canada before settling in Minneapolis.
Good is a registered voter but her party affiliation is not listed in public records. No records about Rebecca’s voting history were publicly available.
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