The ex-husband of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, the 37-year-old Minneapolis mother fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on Wednesday, has broken his silence to deny claims made by Vice President J.D. Vance about her past.
In a report by the Associated Press, Good's ex-husband, who asked not to be named for his safety, revealed that she was not involved in activism or protest at the time of the encounter. He told reporters she had only dropped her young son off at school and was driving home when the shooting occurred. Vice President Vance called Good a "deranged leftist who tried to run" an ICE officer over.
Every congressional democrat and every democrat who's running for president should be asked a simple question:
— JD Vance (@JDVance) January 8, 2026
Do you think this officer was wrong in defending his life against a deranged leftist who tried to run him over?
These people are going to try to arrest our law…
Vance also claimed that Good was part of "a group of left-wing radicals [who] have been working, tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques, to try and make it impossible for the president of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws."
Officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE have described the incident as involving a rioter who allegedly attempted to use her vehicle as a weapon against agents. But family members, friends, and the ex-husband paint a very different picture of Good, focusing on her life as a mother, poet, and community member, not a political actor.
Her ex-husband said, "I never knew her to be part of any protest of any kind." He described Good as a devoted Christian and stay-at-home mother, noting her involvement in youth mission trips earlier in life and her artistic interests, rather than political activism.
The video circulating on social media shows Good in a dark red Honda SUV being approached by ICE officers as she is told to get out of her vehicle. The officers walk up to her car and try to open the driver's side door before the woman tries to take off, grazing another officer, who opens fire on the driver.
In response, Assistant Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin issued a statement on social media stating, "Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism."
Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.…
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) January 7, 2026
Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey told ICE to "get the fuck out" of the city after the shooting. He also referred to McLaughlin's statement as "bullshit." He also added, "This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed."
Good was a mother of three, including two older children from an earlier marriage and a 6-year-old with her late second husband. Good's social media accounts, now private or removed, described her as a "poet and writer and wife and mom."
