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Renee Nicole Good lived just blocks from where she was killed, so the people in that area had known her.
They said she moved from Colorado to the Twin Cities and lived with a partner, and they described her as a caring, generous person.
In fact, her mom was reached, and her mom said that what happened...
happened, the way she was killed was stupid.
She said her daughter must have been so afraid that her daughter is not someone who would have been seeking to confront ICE agents in any way.
She said she was the kindest person that she knew.
So by all accounts, you know,
She is a beloved member of the Minneapolis community.
And so that just really adds to this conflicting narrative of what put Renee Nicole Good in that situation and whether she was, in fact, trying to confront ICE agents or to help those in the community in that area.
You know, ICE had been raiding neighborhoods and business areas for some days after the Trump administration declared that they were going to launch the largest immigration enforcement operation ever in this city.
And residents had kind of gone out blowing whistles, blaring their car horns whenever they saw ICE agents out in the community to warn residents.
their neighbors.
So it was already a tense situation.
And then you see in the video just how that escalated.
I think people absolutely are in the sense that let's not forget this was just a few blocks, in fact, where from where George Floyd was killed by police.
And the fact that this city was still healing, you had an overhaul of the police department.
But nevertheless, you know, with the.
kind of arrival of ICE agents in the city, we have seen this new feeling of it is the community against an overzealous federal government.
That has been the feeling.
And Minneapolis officials in the press conference, including the police chief, talked about how they warned this could happen, that