‘State-sanctioned murder’: Netizens rage against US cold-blooded murder of Minneapolis mother

A wave of condemnation has swept across social media after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed a woman in Minneapolis, as Vice President JD Vance publicly defended the federal agency’s actions.

The condemnations were triggered by the killing of Renee Nicole Macklin Good during an ICE operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, part of a nationwide crackdown on immigrants that has intensified under the current administration.

Trump and the US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, have defended the killing claiming that the woman was trying to run over the agent with her vehicle, which DHS called “an act of domestic terrorism,” but videos circulating online and witness accounts to reporters have undermined those statements.

Harry Sisson, a democrat, criticized President Donald Trump for defending the ICE agent involved in the killing of the 37-year-old American woman and noted that Trump’s account of the incident is dishonest.

“A disgustingly dishonest description of what happened but I’m not surprised,” he further said.

Abdul El-Sayed, who served as director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services for Wayne County, Michigan from 2023 to 2025, criticized the ICE in a post on his X account on Thursday.

El-Sayed said he has worked alongside law enforcement officials to help keep communities safe, but argued that ICE does not serve that role. “ICE is not law enforcement—it’s lawlessness in the name of Trump’s power,” he wrote.

Referring to a position he has held for several years, El-Sayed added, “So like I said in 2018: Abolish ICE.”

Seth Moulton, a candidate for US Senate in Massachusetts, slammed Vice President Vance for lying in a post on X, saying video evidence shows the woman was not interfering with law enforcement and condemning attempts to blame a murdered victim in order to shield federal officers.

“Blaming a murdered woman to shield federal officers is grotesque and disturbingly un-American. We will not ignore what we can see with our own eyes,” he noted.

Jenin Younes National legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee also wrote on X that after reviewing video footage multiple times, it appears the ICE officers instigated the encounter and lacked legal authority over the woman.

She stated that established case law does not permit the use of deadly force against someone attempting to flee and called the shooting unjustified, while expressing sympathy for the victim’s family.

Rula Jebreal, a visiting professor at the University of Miami, sharply slammed the ICE, saying the country is witnessing the “full Israelification of the United States.”

“Masked ICE agents of the state murdered Renee Nicole Good and then denied their victim her medical care. It was not 'domestic terrorism.' It was state-sanctioned murder,” she added.

Li Jingjing a Chinese journalist & political commentator, showed outraged at US society on X.

“Domestically, ICE agents point their guns at and shoot their own citizens with no mercy. Internationally, they bomb, plunder, steal, manipulate, and kidnap every other country. Yet they have the nerve to lecture the world about human rights and democracy?!” he noted.

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a Jew, slammed Trump for seeking to justify the killing of American citizens who oppose him, calling a recent fatal shooting “a major step” toward setting a dangerous precedent.

“There can be no more grave precedent,” he wrote.

Another netizen Hadi Nasrallah wrote, “Hamas didn’t kill an American mother today. Neither did Venezuela or Iran. Trump did. The pedo who is 'locked and loaded' to burn down nations to 'protect civilians' is killing his own people and calling them 'terrorists'. You think he cares about you miles away?”

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