The brutal murder of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good shows why universal resistance to fascism needs to happen now.

Good – a mother, poet, and US citizen – was shot dead by an ICE agent during a federal immigration enforcement operation in a residential neighbourhood of Minneapolis. The latest in a series of escalations under the current immigration crackdown that is causing fear and chaos for migrant and non-migrant communities alike.  

Federal officials have tried to justify the shooting as “self-defence,” claiming the vehicle was used as a weapon. They are trying to spin this unscrupulous murder in order to protect the officer in question and, more importantly, the very system that the gangsters in the White House have engineered. Let’s be clear: this was an act of state terrorism fully backed by the US executive.

Local leaders – including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – have rejected the federal narrative as reckless and unjustified.

Authoritarianism comes home

We warned that the Trump administration’s so-called “crackdowns” would not remain abstract political theatre. The same authoritarian logic that fuels militarised aggression abroad – dehumanisation, exceptionalism and the normalisation of force – inevitably seeps into domestic enforcement. Systems that justify violence overseas find it easy to authorise violence at home, with ICE behaving like a private Gestapo force of Donald Trump‘s radical second term. 

Renee’s death lays bare the inhumane immigration policy that has been used as a vehicle for state violence and intimidation. DiEM25 rejects any framework that treats people – whether migrants, observers, or neighbours – as collateral in a political project defined by militarism and xenophobia. We cannot accept narratives that demand we choose between “security” and human life when the real question is why the state feels entitled to take life in the first place.

Europe is complicit

Europe is not a bystander to this violence. The European Union continues to present the United States as a “partner” and “ally”. And in the case of Venezuela, weakly spoke of “monitoring the situation” rather than outright criticising the action. Europe’s leaders who claim to represent the rule of law and democracy refuse to confront the authoritarian turn of the Trump administration. By maintaining political cover, diplomatic silence and strategic alignment, EU leaders are complicit in a system that treats migrants, protesters and working-class people as expendable. Although it is unfortunately what we have become accustomed to.

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