{"id":82968,"date":"2026-01-10T02:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82968\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:37:10","slug":"hundreds-at-bethlehem-vigil-mourn-woman-killed-by-ice-agent-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82968\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds at Bethlehem vigil mourn woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Dreary weather matched the mood Friday evening as hundreds in Bethlehem mourned a woman killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis this week.<\/p>\n

Local residents filled the sanctuary at Cathedral Church of the Nativity on the Southside.<\/p>\n

There, they paid their respects to 37-year-old Renee Good, who was shot and killed Wednesday amid an immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said the agent feared for his life as Good tried to \u201crun (him) over\u201d \u2014 a description repeated by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was killed for acting on her belief that immigrants are welcome and should be treated with dignity and respect \u2014 which means that she was murdered for a cause that we all believe.”<\/p>\n

The Rev. John Stratton<\/p>\n

But videos of the fatal shooting contradict federal officials\u2019 version of events. An analysis by The New York Times<\/a> concluded the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot Good was not struck by the vehicle she was driving.<\/p>\n

Federal agents have blocked Minnesota officials from participating in the investigation into Good’s killing. <\/p>\n

The Minneapolis killing and a separate shooting in Portland, Oregon, a day later by U.S. Border Patrol have set off protests in multiple cities and denunciations of immigration enforcement tactics by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents.<\/p>\n

‘Our hearts are broken’: Rabbi<\/p>\n

The Very Rev. John Stratton on Friday said Good was killed because she stood up for her neighbors. She was part of a network that responded to reports of ICE in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n

Good \u201csupported her communities by showing up with love and solidarity when ICE showed up with hate and violence,\u201d Stratton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was killed for acting on her belief that immigrants are welcome and should be treated with dignity and respect \u2014 which means that she was murdered for a cause that we all believe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Jason Addy<\/p>\n

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LehighValleyNews.com<\/p>\n

Hundreds attended a vigil for Renee Good on Friday, Jan. 9, at Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no justification for her killing; she should be alive today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rabbi Shoshanah Tornberg, who leads Congregation Keneseth Israel in Allentown, urged residents to unite amid \u201cthis time of brokenness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hearts are broken,\u201d she said. \u201cThe bonds between us are broken.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pain into power<\/p>\n

Good is at least the fifth person to die during federal immigrations operations since July, the Associated Press reports<\/a>. Dozens of others have died while in ICE custody, the Guardian reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The name of each was read during Friday\u2019s vigil.<\/p>\n

A dispatcher for the Lehigh Valley Emergency Response Network gave an impassioned speech in which she called ICE agents \u201cbullies\u201d and \u201ctyrants\u201d without \u201ca single drop of honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking in Spanish alongside an English translator, she said her fellow ERN volunteers are \u201cnot much different\u201d from Good \u2014 \u201ca brave woman brutally taken from this world.\u201d<\/p>\n

She urged people to not \u201clet their fears take over\u201d and to \u201cturn the pain we feel today into power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is power in solidarity,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is power in the numbers. There is power in resistance; there is power in action.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike what this government wants us to believe, we are not powerless.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Dreary weather matched the mood Friday evening as hundreds in Bethlehem mourned a woman killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,41747,41748,41749,41750],"class_list":{"0":"post-82968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-renee-good-bethlehem","12":"tag-renee-good-lehigh-valley","13":"tag-renee-good-vigil","14":"tag-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-vigil-bethlehem"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82968","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=82968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}