{"id":127764,"date":"2026-01-10T06:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127764\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T06:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:16:19","slug":"hundreds-gather-in-downtown-long-beach-to-protest-the-killing-of-renee-nicole-good-by-an-ice-agent-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127764\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds gather in Downtown Long Beach to protest the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two candles, placed on a bollard outside Long Beach City Hall, flicker in the dark Thursday night as a crowd chants “fuck ICE.” The name Renee Nicole Good adorns dozens of signs as hundreds gathered to protest her death at the hands of an ICE agent in Minneapolis the day before.<\/p>\n

A mother of three<\/a>, Good was gunned down by Jonathan Ross Wednesday as he and other federal agents conducted an immigration enforcement operation. Ross, 43, was previously dragged more than 50 yards by a car during an incident last year when he broke a driver’s window and reached inside, according to multiple reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The killing of Good has sparked waves of protest across the country. In Downtown Long Beach, protesters denounced what they say was plainly a murder. They chanted \u201cICE out of Long Beach\u201d and \u201cabolish ICE,” among other slogans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is another martyr in the peoples\u2019 struggle,\u201d said Anthony Bryson, co-founder of SoCal Uprising, which organized the protest. \u201cUnderstand that Renee Nicole Good is not the only individual slain by ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DozensHundreds of protesters gathered in Downtown Long Beach Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Photo by Brandon Richardson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I woke up in the morning and saw that news, I was devastated,\u201d said Oscar Zamora, a member of the CSULB Divest Coalitions. \u201cI found it so difficult to swallow that one of our own was murdered in cold blood. Immediately, Kiristi Noem goes on to lie on live television.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good was shot and killed around 9:30 a.m. CT Wednesday morning. Two hours later, Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, held a press conference<\/a> in Brownsville, Texas on immigration enforcement during which she was asked about the incident in Minneapolis. In response, Noem immediately called Good a \u201cdomestic terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noem claimed that ICE vehicles were \u201cstuck in the snow\u201d and that agents were attempting to push them out when they were \u201cattacked\u201d by Good, who then attempted to \u201crun them over and ram them.\u201d<\/p>\n

But numerous videos, shot from different angles, tell a completely different story.<\/p>\n

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Video of events leading up to the shooting show Good parked in the street, partially blocking traffic. At one point, her car begins to pull forward as if to leave the scene, which she had been instructed to do by federal agents. A federal vehicle, however, quickly drives around her and leaves the scene.<\/p>\n

Good then waves toward agents who were in a pickup truck, signaling them to also go around before she leaves. Instead, those agents parked, exited the truck and approached Good\u2019s car. One agent tried to open her driver door and then, after failing to do so, reached in through her open window.<\/p>\n

It was at this point that Good reversed her car as if to position it to leave the scene to her right. While one agent was reaching in through her window, another positioned himself near the driver-side headlight. As Good put the car into drive, that agent can be seen drawing his gun.<\/p>\n

Slow-motion footage of the shooting shows that both the agent\u2019s feet were clear of the tires, which were turned to the right, away from him, when the first shot was fired. The officer then appeared to shoot two more rounds directly into Good\u2019s window despite being fully clear of the vehicle\u2019s path.<\/p>\n

\"HundredsHundreds of protesters gathered in Downtown Long Beach Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Photo by Brandon Richardson.<\/p>\n

According to a September 2018 memo<\/a> from the DHS, deadly force is only authorized when agents have \u201ca reasonable belief\u201d that someone poses an \u201cimminent threat of death or serious bodily injury\u201d to the agent or others nearby. The memo also states deadly force is not authorized as a means to \u201cprevent the escape of a fleeing subject.\u201d Agents are also prohibited from shooting at the operator of a moving vehicle except in extreme circumstances.<\/p>\n

The same memo says that medical care should be given \u201cas soon as is practicable following a use of force\u201d once there is no longer a threat. But in videos of the aftermath, agents were seen keeping a man, who identified himself as a physician, from giving aid to Good.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan I check her pulse?\u201d the man asked agents, who denied him access. \u201cI\u2019m a physician,\u201d he said, to which an agent replied, \u201cI don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressman Jared Moskowitz, D-Florida, lambasted Noem Thursday<\/a> for how quickly she spun a false narrative about the shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe deserves to be removed from her job by the president,\u201d Moskowitz said.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump, however, was also quick to lay blame for the incident squarely on Good. In a post on Truth Social<\/a>, the president called Good \u201cdisorderly,” saying she \u201cviolently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer.\u201d Trump added that the agent was \u201crecovering in the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PeopleProtesters hold anti-ICE and anti-Trump signs during demonstration in Downtown Long Beach Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. Photo by Brandon Richardson.<\/p>\n

Video from multiple angles clearly shows that no agent was \u201cran over\u201d during the incident. In fact, video shows Jonathan Ross, the agent who killed Good, casually walking to her vehicle after the shooting caused it to crash. He then turned around and requested other agents call 9-1-1. Another video then shows Ross getting into a vehicle of his own volition and driving away from the scene, seemingly altering the crime scene before any investigation could begin.<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance justified the shooting Thursday, saying the agent is protected by \u201cabsolute immunity\u201d because he was \u201cdoing his job that he was asked to do. The reason this woman is dead is because she tried to ram somebody with her car and that guy acted in self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Legal experts have been quick to deny that ICE agents have “absolute immunity” from prosecution for crimes they commit on the job, with one even calling the notion “absolutely ridiculous,” according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In any case, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, along with the FBI, has taken over the investigation into the shooting of Good. Minnesota\u2019s investigations agency said Thursday that the U.S. attorney\u2019s office has prevented it from taking part in the investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Long Beach mayor turned Congressman Robert Garcia, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump and his administration as the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, did not mince words when asked about the killing of Good by a reporter from the MeidasTouch Network.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe murder that we saw with our own eyes is horrific, disgusting,” Garcia said. “Every American should be outraged by what happened in Minneapolis. And the fact that there\u2019s been no accountability and that the DOJ wants to investigate it themselves is insane. They can\u2019t be trusted to investigate anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia: Every American should be outraged by what happened in Minneapolis. The fact that there\u2019s going to be no accountability\u2014or that the DOJ wants to investigate it themselves\u2014is insane. They can\u2019t be trusted to investigate anything. pic.twitter.com\/0TBSMoBsBF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Local law enforcement should be leading the investigation, Garcia said, adding that the Oversight Committee is continuing to gather information about possible misconduct related to immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single person who has caused harm to the American public, to people, needs to be held accountable,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n

In a social media post Thursday<\/a>, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said ICE agents are \u201cundertrained and trigger happy.\u201d Hahn called on Noem to withdraw federal agents from U.S. cities, saying \u201cthey are dangerous and they are killing people.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an Instagram post<\/a>, Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson condemned the killing of Good, saying these \u201catrocities must not be normalized\u201d and that \u201cdeath should never be dismissed as collateral damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PeopleProtesters shout outside Hilton Long Beach during an anti-ICE demonstration Downtown Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. Photo by Brandon Richardson.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Long Beach, we\u2019ve seen how these federal enforcement tactics escalate fear and put lives at risk,\u201d Richardson wrote. \u201cThey do not make people safer.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked why she attended the Downtown protest, Amy Hernandez, 29, a Long Beach resident, said that Good might still be alive \u201cif more people cared about the Black and Brown [people] who have lost their lives leading up to this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protesters marched from City Hall to Pine Avenue, where they turned south to head toward the Pike Outlets. More than a dozen Long Beach police officers, however, formed a line at Seaside Way, blocking the protesters. Batons and less-lethal projectile weapons drawn, officers told protesters they could only march along Ocean Boulevard.<\/p>\n

Without incident, the march turned back the way it came, making its way to the Hilton Long Beach. At the hotel, the crowd made noise and denounced the brand, which has been known to house federal agents while they are conducting operations within the region.<\/p>\n

Top left: Hundreds of protesters march along Ocean Boulevard in Downtown Long Beach. The demonstration was in response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an ICE agent. Top Right: A protester takes a picture of a Hilton Long Beach employee after an anti-ICE demonstration spilled into the Downtown hotel. Bottom left: Protesters shout and bang on a window outside Hilton Long Beach during an anti-ICE demonstration Downtown. Bottom right: Long Beach police officers block protesters from marching along Pine Avenue in Downtown Long Beach. Photos taken by Brandon Richardson Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n

At one point, some protesters were banging on the glass of the lobby and shouting at the people inside. Several protesters even entered the building to condemn management.<\/p>\n

Hernandez told the Watchdog that the Trump administration\u2019s response is just more of the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re compulsive liars and they don’t care about what we see,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cThey are gaslighting you into thinking that what you see with your own eyes isn’t reality. They have no shame.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AFresh out of the Anime LA convention, Jefferson Carvey, 33, takes a video of protesters marching along Ocean Boulevard in Downtown Long Beach Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. The demonstration is in response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an ICE agent. Carvey said he stands with the protesters. Photo by Brandon Richardson.<\/p>\n

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