The woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked parents to documents encouraging the monitoring of ICE activity and directing them to protest training.
The documents shed new light on Renee Good’s involvement with efforts to observe and potentially disrupt ICE operations, an association federal officials have placed at the center of their review of the fatal shooting, CNN reported.
Good was shot and killed after partially blocking ICE agents in the street with her SUV during a federal immigration enforcement operation in the city.
Four legal experts who reviewed the documents for CNN said they describe nonviolent civil disobedience tactics that have been used at protests for decades, and do not support claims by Trump administration officials that Good was engaged in extremism or domestic terrorism.
“There’s nothing in there that suggests attacking ICE agents or engaging in any other form of physical harm or property damage,” said Timothy Zick, a professor at William and Mary Law School. “This is authoritarianism 101 where you blame the dissenters and the activists for causing their own death.”
At least six federal prosecutors in Minneapolis resigned Tuesday after facing pressure from the Trump administration to focus the investigation on Good and those connected to her, according to a person briefed on the matter.
One of the documents linked by the school was a message to parents dated Dec. 16 that opened by thanking families who had been “on ICE watch, helping to protect their neighbors.”
The message linked to a separate training guide that encouraged the use of whistles to alert neighbors to ICE activity and provided contact information for a parent offering “noncooperation training.”
“ICE are untrained bullies looking for easy targets. Neighbors showing up have saved lives,” the training document stated.
Another guide emphasized nonviolent responses to ICE agents while encouraging a refusal to comply with demands, requests, and orders. It suggested “creative tactics,” noting that crowds, noise, and traffic could make detentions difficult and sometimes prevent ICE vehicles from moving. The guide did not specifically instruct participants to block operations with a vehicle.
The Dec. 16 message, titled “School Report,” appeared on the agenda of a Southside Family Charter School board meeting that day, which Good attended as one of three parent board members.
Records do not indicate the board voted on the message, and it remains unclear whether it was widely distributed to families. The school and other board members did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment.
Two sources familiar with the school said the message resembled previous newsletters, though neither could confirm whether it was sent to parents.
The document was uploaded to the school’s public Google Drive about two weeks into a federal operation targeting immigration enforcement in the Minneapolis area, which officials said focused on the local Somali community.
Good was shot Wednesday after an ICE officer confronted her as she partially blocked a street with her SUV. The officer fired after Good began accelerating. Video shows Good turning her vehicle away from the agent as she pulled forward, though it remains unclear whether her SUV made contact before the shooting.
Federal officials have claimed, without evidence, that Good was engaging in domestic terrorism and stalking agents throughout the day. Some state and local lawmakers have called that rhetoric false and inflammatory.
Good’s family has said she and her wife were returning from dropping off their son at Southside, about a mile and a half from where she was shot.
In a statement, Good’s wife, Becca Good, said the couple had “stopped to support our neighbors,” adding, “We had whistles. They had guns.”