Night show comedian JIMMY KIMMEL has commented on the ICE (IMMIGRATION CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT) killing a U.S.A. citizen innocent bystander RENNE NICOLE GOOD.
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The scale is extraordinary. From Honolulu to small towns in Maine, people are gathering not only to mourn, but to draw a line — and to say that what has been normalized as “enforcement” has crossed into something far more dangerous.
Organizers are calling it the ICE Out for Good Weekend of Action, tracked online by Indivisible, the same network behind last year’s No Kings protests. What stands out isn’t just the number of events, but where they’re happening.
These actions aren’t confined to big cities or familiar activist centers. They’re appearing in rural towns, suburbs, and places that rarely see coordinated protest — communities that are now confronting realities immigrant families and marginalized groups have lived with for years.
The immediate spark was Minneapolis. On January 7, ICE agents shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a local resident and U.S. citizen, during a massive federal immigration sweep that brought more than 2,000 agents into the Twin Cities.
Footage taken by community members attempting to disrupt ICE operations spread rapidly online. By that evening, thousands had gathered at the site of the shooting. Local officials publicly condemned ICE’s presence, and protests spilled into the streets.
The following day, in Portland, Oregon, ICE agents shot Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras and Luis David Nico Moncada outside a hospital. Both survived, but the message was unmistakable: the use of lethal force by federal immigration agents was no longer an isolated incident.
Protests expanded. Arrests followed. What might once have remained a localized crisis quickly became a national one.
“This weekend, people all over are coming together not just to mourn the lives lost to ICE violence, but to confront a pattern of harm that has torn families apart and terrorized our communities,” said Indivisible co-director Leah Greenberg.
That framing has shaped the response. This isn’t being treated as a tragic anomaly. It’s being understood as the predictable outcome of an agency that operates with broad authority and minimal accountability.
Groups including Indivisible, the ACLU, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and the 50501 movement are coordinating actions demanding justice for Renee Good, ICE out of local communities, and real consequences from elected leaders — not statements, not delays, not investigations that fade quietly away.
What makes this moment feel different is how widely that demand is resonating.
Stories of deaths in ICE custody and violent enforcement have circulated for years without triggering a response like this. Now, people who have never marched over immigration policy are showing up because the question feels unavoidable: how much power should a federal agency with guns have inside civilian neighborhoods?
This is what accountability looks like before the institutions catch up. People aren’t waiting for official investigations to validate what they already see. They’re showing up — in public, in daylight and at night, in cities and towns that rarely make the news — to insist that power answer to the people it claims to serve.
Refusal to normalize violence. Refusal to look away. Refusal to accept that this is simply how things are. What’s happening this weekend is not the end of the story — it’s the moment people step forward and say that accountability starts with them.
The GoFundMe for Renee Nicole Good filled up so quickly it broke through its original goal in a matter of hours, soaring past 1.5 million dollars before organizers finally shut it down and told people to give their money to other families in need instead. That is what real community grief looks like, the kind that turns outrage into concrete support instead of personal branding. Her friends made it clear the money will be placed in trust for her wife and kids and then redirected new donations outward, not hoarded as a windfall.
Renee’s widow has stayed mostly out of the spotlight, issuing careful statements about compassion and a better world while their family tries to survive the wreckage left by an ICE bullet. No stadium tours, no merch drops, just a family trying to keep the lights on and raise their son the way Renee believed people should live. It is quiet, dignified, and accountable, which is probably why it resonates.
Then you look at the right wing martyr machine around Charlie Kirk, where his widow turned a funeral into a full scale arena spectacle with packed seating, tight security, political speeches, and the kind of theatrical entrance more at home at WrestleMania than at a memorial. That is not mutual aid, that is brand management dressed up as grief, and you will never see Rebecca Good rolling into a stadium in sequins under fireworks because she is not in this for the grift.
VIDEO BELOW: JIMMY KIMMEL:ON ICE SHOOTING (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE):
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