Sandpoint ‘ICE Out for Good’ protest mentioned on The Rachel Maddow Show

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

Amid of nationwide protests after the shooting of 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minn. on Jan. 7, Sandpoint was mentioned in the national media.

The Rachel Maddow Show on MS NOW aired a segment Jan. 12 about protests around the country, especially in “red states” like Idaho, with Maddow mentioning the “ICE Out for Good” protest held on Jan. 10 in Sandpoint. Maddow showed a graphic containing a screenshot of Bonner County Daily Bee reporter Jack Freeman’s story published on Jan. 11.

According to Indivisible, there were at least 1,000 “anti-ICE” protests held around the country on Jan. 10 after Good’s shooting death.

“Renee Nicole Good was a wife, a mother of three and a member of her community,” said Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible. “She, and the dozens of other sons, daughters, friends, siblings, parents and community members who have been killed by ICE should be alive today. ICE’s violence is not a statistic, it has names, families and futures attached to it, and we refuse to look away or stay silent.”

Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the actions of Good as “domestic terrorism,” and President Donald Trump claimed — without providing any corroborative evidence — that Good was a “professional agitator,” and a “very violent, radical person.” Vice President J.D. Vance, for his part, claimed she was a “deranged leftist.”

Good was a writer and poet who lived in Minneapolis with her wife and 6-year-old child.