Baltimore residents will hold vigils for Renee Nicole Macklin Good, the unarmed Minneapolis resident shot dead in her car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Wednesday morning.
Two vigils will take place on Thursday, Jan. 8, from 6-6:30 p.m. In Baltimore City, people will gather at the George Fallon Federal Building located at 31 Hopkins Place. That vigil is organized by Free State Coalition. In Towson, people will gather at Truth and Reconciliation Park located at 300 Baltimore Ave.
On Friday, Jan. 9 at 6 p.m., a candlelight vigil will take place in Baltimore’s Remington neighborhood at 26th and North Howard streets.
Macklin Good’s mother told the Minnesota Star Tribune that Macklin Good lived in the Twin Cities with her partner. She was a mother to three children, including a 6-year-old whose father had died in 2023. Her older children are 12 and 15 years old. She was new to Minnesota. She had just dropped her youngest off at school and was driving home with her partner when she encountered the ICE agents.
Videos posted on social media taken by bystanders show ICE officers trying to get her to leave her car, and as she attempts to drive away from them, one shoots his gun through the open driver’s side window of her car. The car then accelerates and crashes into a pole.
Protests sprang up not only in Minneapolis in response to Macklin Good’s killing, but around the nation. Hundreds of protesters first gathered at the scene, where U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino joined ICE agents. Agents sprayed chemical agents into the faces of protesters both at the scene, and outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where more protesters gathered.
In California, crowds gathered in downtown San Francisco and Southern California. Portland, Oregon, New York, and Chicago also saw protests.
ICE agents say Macklin Good was attempting to ram the ICE agent with her car, and President Donald Trump and Secretary for Homeland Security Kristi Noem are defending the ICE agents’ actions. Eyewitnesses say Macklin Good posed no threat whatsoever, and Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz dispute ICE’s version of events.
The killing took place after Trump sent 2,000 ICE agents to Minneapolis in a law enforcement surge criticized by Walz and Frey. Macklin Good is at least the fifth person killed in Trump’s latest immigration crackdown.
Just one week before Macklin Good’s killing, an off-duty ICE agent shot and killed Keith Porter, a Black 43-year-old father of two, in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve.
