Protesters gathered at Fremont Park Wednesday night to call for accountability from the Department of Homeland Security surrounding the killing of Renee Nicole Good after an encounter with ICE agents in Minneapolis.
NorCal Resist, an immigrant rights organization, organized the protest hours after news of the shooting broke.
Ruth Ibarra, an organizer with NorCal Resist led the protest as it first gathered Wednesday night.
“ICE doesn’t respect anybody,” Ibarra said to the crowd gathered. ”They don’t respect a US citizen… This has become an abuse of power.”
Good was shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis after dropping her six-year-old off at school.
She was driving home when she encountered them, according to CNN. A masked ICE agent addressed her through her car window, and when she tried to drive away, another agent standing in front of the vehicle shot her in the head through her car’s windshield.
Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, claimed that Good tried to “weaponize her vehicle” to run over the ICE agent.
Ibarra said that she didn’t feel safe with ICE in her community and that in her personal opinion, “when a middle class white woman is not safe, nobody’s safe.”
Maggie Goerig, a protestor in the crowd at Fremont Park said that she has attended a few protests against ICE activity like the one last night.
“I couldn’t live with myself if I just acted like it wasn’t happening,” Goerig said. “We can’t sit by and let this happen.”
Goerig was joined by Lori Richardson at the protest. Richardson said she thought that communities in Sacramento are at risk.
“Democracy is absolutely on the line,” Richardson said. “Our black and brown communities are completely at risk. Our Jewish communities are at risk. We’re all at risk.”
Protesters light candles as they gather at Fremont Park in Midtown Sacramento on Wednesday, Jan. 7 2026.Ruth Finch/CapRadio
When Ibarra addressed the crowd, she talked to the crowd about how to build strength in communities.
“In order to change it [if] you don’t like what you’re seeing, then you have to do something about it,” Ibarra said. “You go to demonstrations, right? You bring somebody with you… and then the next time you bring two people, and the next time three people.”
After she addressed the crowd, Westminster Presbyterian Church’s Peace & Justice Choir led the crowd in song, teaching them the words and encouraging everyone to sing along.
“Resilience, we are strong,” Jason Block, the leader of the choir sang. “Shoulder to shoulder, keep moving on.”
The crowd sang and chanted as they marched to the John E. Moss Federal Building. According to KCRA, the event escalated when a small group of demonstrators vandalized the building.
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