"She could have been me. That was my first thought when I learned that Renee Nicole Good - a 37-year-old mother, poet, and community advocate - had been shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. As a mother, an abolitionist organizer, and an artist, I felt that familiar twitching and burning, the despairing rage pooling under my skin, looking for an outlet."
"Certainly, this is not the first time ICE has committed a tragic, outrageous murder in plain view. Last September, Silverio Villegas González, a 38-year-old father, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in a suburb of Chicago. Like Good, he had just dropped his kids off at school. Thirty-two people died in ICE custody last year alone, the highest number on record since ICE's 2004 debut. Each stolen life is a universe of loss."
Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother, poet, and community advocate, was shot and killed by an ICE agent, prompting personal grief and abolitionist outrage. The incident joins other recent killings, including Silverio Villegas González, and contributes to a record 32 deaths in ICE custody last year. The narrator, a white mother, abolitionist organizer, and artist, describes visceral anger and a commitment to lean into solidarity while acknowledging white privilege. The narrator began organizing through a bookstore union drive in Minneapolis, joining the United Food & Commercial Workers alongside many coworkers from food service and meat-processing industries.
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