By Trendsetter Tribune 
After ICE killed Renee Nicole Good, new footage shows federal agents invoking her death as a warning. This is not law enforcement—it’s intimidation backed by state power.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is no longer just enforcing policy. It is enforcing fear.
Days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother, federal agents were filmed confronting a local resident in his own vehicle, threatening arrest, pounding on his window, and explicitly invoking Good’s killing as a lesson. The message was unmistakable: comply, or you could be next.
This is what unaccountable power looks like in real time.
In the video circulating online, ICE agents accuse a man of “impeding operations” as he repeatedly explains that he is simply trying to get home. Rather than de-escalating, officers escalate—shouting, threatening arrest, and warning him that he is “not going to like the outcome.” One agent goes further, invoking the recent killing of Good as a cautionary tale.
That is not crowd control.
That is not public safety.
That is state intimidation.
Renee Good Was Not a “Lesson.” She Was a Human Being.
The Department of Homeland Security has attempted to justify Good’s killing by labeling her a “violent rioter,” claiming she “weaponized” her vehicle. But videos from the scene tell a different story—one in which Good appears to be trying to flee when an officer fires multiple shots into her car.
The Trump administration’s instinctive response was not transparency or restraint, but escalation: more agents, more raids, more threats, more dehumanization.
And now, apparently, her death is being weaponized rhetorically—used by ICE officers themselves to cow civilians into silence and obedience.
That should alarm anyone who believes federal agencies are supposed to answer to the public, not terrorize it.
A Rogue Enforcement Culture Enabled From the Top
This is not an isolated incident. It is the logical outcome of years of political messaging that frames immigrants, protesters, and dissenters as enemies of the state—and federal agents as untouchable.
When officers believe they can kill a civilian, face no immediate accountability, and then invoke that killing as leverage days later, the problem is not “a few bad apples.” The problem is institutional.
ICE is operating with:
- Militarized authority
- Minimal oversight
- Political cover
- A culture that treats civilians as obstacles, not people
And when challenged, the response is not humility—it is force.
“Make America Safe Again” — For Whom?
In the video, an agent sarcastically invokes the slogan “Make America Safe Again.” But safety is not created by threatening residents in their own neighborhoods. Safety is not created by pounding on car windows, yelling obscenities, or reminding people that federal agents have already killed someone nearby.
Safety is not created when law enforcement behaves like an occupying force.
If safety requires silence, fear, and submission, then it isn’t safety at all—it’s control.
This Is the Slippery Slope We Were Warned About
A government that kills, then intimidates, then justifies itself with slogans is not protecting democracy. It is testing how far it can go.
The question is no longer whether ICE crossed a line.
The question is how many more lines will be crossed before accountability is forced—by the public, by courts, or by history.
Renee Nicole Good’s life mattered.
Her death should not be a threat.
And no federal agency should be allowed to rule by fear.