Florida lawmakers react after ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis

ORLANDO, Fla. – An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the mayor described as reckless and unnecessary.

The 37-year-old woman was shot in the head in front of a family member in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets and about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.

Her killing after 9:30 a.m. was recorded on video by witnesses, and the shooting quickly drew a large crowd of angry protesters. By evening, hundreds were there for a vigil to mourn her death and urge the public to resist immigration enforcers.

The woman, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, had a 6-year old child, her mother told the Minnesota Star Tribune. Macklin Good described herself on social media as a “poet and writer and wife and mom” who was from Colorado.

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Videos taken by bystanders with different vantage points and posted to social media show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. The Honda Pilot begins to pull forward and a different ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the vehicle at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.

It is not clear in the videos if the vehicle makes contact with the officer and there is no indication of whether or not the woman had interactions with ICE officers before the videos started. After the shooting, the SUV speeds into two cars parked on a curb nearby before crashing to a stop.

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Here’s what some elected leaders in Florida had to say about the situation.

REP. MAXWELL FROST — (D-DISTRICT 10)

“How dare ICE label this woman a domestic terrorist. You wanna know who’s terrorizing our communities? ICE agents, from Orlando to Minneapolis. That ice agent needs to lose his job, be arrested and charged for the murder of this woman.”

REP. RANDY FINE — (R-DISTRICT 6)

“This woman who was in a place she shouldn’t have been, who made it her mission to bother and distract and hinder legitimate law enforcement operations, butted (...) she drove her car at him. He fired back. 100% of the blame for what happened here rests on the wacky leftists who are fighting and hurting themselves in order to keep illegal invaders in our country. We don’t need more body cameras to show us anything different.”

REP. DANIEL WEBSTER — (R-DISTRICT 11)

REP. DARREN SOTO — (D-DISTRICT 9)

The Associated Press contributed to this report.