New Jerseyans Seek Justice for Renee Nicole Good
SOMERVILLE - Heartbroken, quietly angry, and outraged residents of Central New Jersey this evening held a solemn vigil in front of the courthouse fountain in honor of Renee Nicole Good of Minneapolis.
They honored the dead.
They also want justice.
On Jan. 7th, an ICE agent fatally shot and killed Ms. Good through the windshield of her vehicle. Organized by Somerset County Indivisible, the participants in the vigil denounced the killing as the murder of an innocent woman.
Said Pamela Lynn Brause, "While the Trump administration has tried to portray her as a domestic terrorist, neighborhood residents are posting their videos online to show that her death was totally unnecessary and akin to a murder by ICE. She is being hailed as a kind soul and a victim of a government killing by untrained, incapable ruthless ICE agents."
The Reverend Cynthia Snavley, minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Somerset Hills, quoted from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8: "Love is patient and is kind," and urged the mourners to remain vigilant and to protest injustice and to stand for the rule of law.
"For Renee and for so many others, let us continue the work," said the Reverend Snavley.
Joe Delong read a poem by Amanda Gorman called "For Renee Nicole Good Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026," which contains the lines:
You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.
Guy Citron, 2025 Democratic candidate for the Assembly in LD-23, said, "I'm terrified, because if the shooter [ICE agent Jonathan Ross] faces no consequences for murdering a civilian, an American citizen in the street, that sends a signal to the tens of thousands of other ICE agents that they are allowed to do it too. This is why due process and proper law enforcement, which is what real police officers are trained to do, are so important. ...What we are watching is domestic terrorism."
For the full interview with Guy Citron, please see below:
