{"id":81970,"date":"2026-01-09T03:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:25:08","slug":"dozens-gather-in-upper-darby-for-vigil-remembering-renee-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81970\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens gather in Upper Darby for vigil remembering Renee Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shooting death of a Minnesota woman by federal ICE agents brought some Delaware County residents out to protest Thursday night in Upper Darby.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 people gathered in front of the municipal building to protest the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good and called for justice in her death.<\/p>\n<p>Candles, photos and placards honored the mother who was killed Wednesday during an interaction with agents on a street in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The event was organized by an Upper Darby Council member (COURTESY PHOTO)\" width=\"1144\" height=\"384\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6210172377896849522.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1726450\" \/>The event was organized by an Upper Darby Council member (COURTESY PHOTO)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbolish ICE, no justice no peace,\u201d the crowd chanted. \u201cSay her name, Renee Nicole Good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPro America, Anti Trump,\u201d read one woman\u2019s sign while another read \u201cICE get the F**K out of Delco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upper Darby Council member Kyle McIntyre organized the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are obviously here to remember the life and memory of Renee Nicole Good but also the memory immigrants who have died in ICE custody this year,\u201d McIntyre said.<\/p>\n<p>The councilman estimated in the past three months there have been 30 residents \u201ckidnapped\u201d in Upper Darby.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Times could not verify that statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s almost a daily occurrence here. The community is terrified and everyone is just doing the best they can to stay strong and fight back,\u201d McIntyre said.<\/p>\n<p>McIntyre said there are people in Upper Darby doing the same thing Good was doing:\u00a0\u201cStanding up for their community and exercising her right for peaceful protest, and she was murdered for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cICE have done nothing but terrorize our family, our friends, our community members, and here in Upper Darby we say enough,\u201d McIntyre added.<\/p>\n<p>McIntyre spoke of the coming the 250th anniversary of America, stating that spirit is gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis country died a long time of go,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is up to us to revive whatever we believe the spirit of this country was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upper Darby<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upperdarby.org\/6thdistrict\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Council Member David Bantoe of the 6th District<\/a> thanked people for coming out and said they have to stay in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled coming to the United States as an immigrant from Liberia and building a life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live here and build family and we know it is a country of the free,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said coming from a nation that struggled with a 14-year civil war, he sees similar signs in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was not my expectation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bantoe said to be your neighbor\u2019s keeper and protect one another.<\/p>\n<p>He said the way to counteract ICE is not to fight or engaged anyone with weapons but to remain calm, and if you suspect anything to call Lawfare or one of the elected officials who are there to listen.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled getting involved in a recent incident in his district in which ICE was involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was called upon and I went and intervened \u2026 and we got it going,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Other smaller protests took place in Lansdowne and Springfield during the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shooting death of a Minnesota woman by federal ICE agents brought some Delaware County residents out to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,212,182,139,28,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-81970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upper-darby","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-delaware-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-top-stories-dtd","14":"tag-upper-darby","15":"tag-upper-darby-headlines","16":"tag-upper-darby-news","17":"tag-upper-darby-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}