Minneapolis Neighbors Used Whistles, Car Horns to Warn of ICE Activity Weeks Before Shooting: Residents

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed by an immigration officer as federal officials were performing an operation in the area.

Community members gather at the scene where Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer in a vehicle-ramming incident in Minneapolis, on Jan. 8, 2026. Jacki Thrapp/The Epoch Times

MINNEAPOLIS—Residents created a unique system to warn their neighbors about immigration operations “weeks” before an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot a protester on Jan. 7.

“People have been carrying their own whistles, like a soccer whistle, whenever an ICE agent or an ICE vehicle is seen—to alert anyone in the area that ICE is nearby,” local resident Francesea Taylor told The Epoch Times during an interview on Jan. 8.