Renée Good was murdered by ICE agents on January 7th. Mere blocks from my own home. I visited the crime scene around noon that day to take photos. MPD had forced ICE to clear out of the area by the time I arrived. They were present along with the Hennepin County Sheriff, FBI, news media, and hundreds of onlookers and protesters.
I accidentally stumbled upon a large pool of blood on the ground. This was the spot where Renée was pulled from her vehicle and given CPR by EMS, eight minutes after being shot. ICE agents had previously blocked a physician on the scene from providing her medical attention. I am unsure why this area was not taped off.
My husband and I quickly realized the urgent demand for ICE alert whistles. Back in November 2025, my mom gifted us a 3D printer. Using this, we began producing 200 whistles per day.
In the early afternoon of January 1oth, I decide to go on a Shabbos walk after getting home from shul. It was a cloudy day of bitter wind and bitter cold. About a minute after walking out the door, I hear several cars honking a few blocks away. I begin walking as fast as possible down the icy sidewalk towards the commotion until I arrive at the corner of Park Ave and 43rd St. Coming north on Park Ave is a train of four or five cars honking at a large black truck with tinted windows and a California plate on the back, driven by two ICE agents dressed in military fatigues. I start blowing the whistle on a twine string around my neck, when the ICE vehicle turns right on 43rd to follow me. They roll down their window and begin filming me while I continue to walk slowly. They repeatedly tell me to approach the vehicle, but I just shake my head and keep walking and whistling while the cars continue to follow and honk. ICE stalks me down the entire block, when several of my neighbors come outside. They rush up to help me, at which point ICE gives up on me, circles around the block, then takes off north again on Park Ave. I bring my neighbors back to the house to give them whistles, and I grab my cell phone.
Pictured below is where ICE came after me.
Pictured below is where ICE came after me.
During my second walk attempt that day, I make it as far as 48th and Chicago Ave when my phone suddenly starts buzzing nonstop. The neighborhood WhatsApp group is exploding, and my husband calls me. A full ICE convoy, also being followed and documented by observers, had stopped on our street. One of the vehicles (a white SUV with blacked out windows) parks directly in front of our house. Several observers get out of their car, and an ICE agent exits the SUV and pepper sprays one of the men, while another has the pepper spray blown into their face by the wind. I begin running back home, but ICE was already gone by the time I returned.
I did finally go on my stupid walk that Saturday, but I was only wearing a kippah and the wind picked up so I went home.
The following morning, two of our neighbors were kidnapped around 10am. Heavily armed ICE agents pepper sprayed their car's air intake vent, smashed in their windows, dragged them out onto the street, and took them to Whipple in separate vehicles. They were held for half a day before being released without charges.
While our neighbors being abducted, a friend we were expecting to our home at 10am was half an hour late because he got tailed by an ICE vehicle, and he had to take them on a wild goose chase through the city to lose them.
While our neighbors being abducted, a friend we were expecting to our home at 10am was half an hour late because he got tailed by an ICE vehicle, and he had to take them on a wild goose chase through the city to lose them.
As of mid-February, we had successfully manufactured and distributed at least 3,600 ICE warning whistles. I lost count of the exact number.
