The scar of state violence reopened in Minneapolis on January 7, after ICE agents shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good in her car within a mile of the site where George Floyd was murdered in 2020. Thousands are mourning and mobilizing around Good nationwide, remembering her as an award-winning poet and writer, an adoring mother, and a beloved wife.
The killing of Good, a US citizen, came just days after the Trump administration deployed 2,000 ICE agents to the Twin Cities for an immigration crackdown targeting the area’s prominent diasporic Somali community.
That evening, thousands gathered on the Portland Avenue block where Good was killed for a vigil that functioned as a peaceful but pointed protest to get ICE out of the Twin Cities. Vigils soon spread nationwide, and tributes have poured in across the web. Signs with the word “remember” and a stylized sky-blue butterfly motif have emerged at memorials for Good in Minneapolis — Monarch butterflies have been used as...
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