Tim Walz Visits Scene Where Woman Rammed ICE Officer In Minneapolis

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and his wife appeared Monday at the site where a Minneapolis woman was shot and killed last week by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent after striking the officer with her vehicle — a move that immediately sparked backlash online.

“At the crime scene investigation where Renee Good was shot…we believe we saw Gov. Walz’s wife with him as well,” Fox News reporter Matt Finn said during an appearance on “The Faulkner Focus” with host Harris Faulkner.

Walz’s presence at the scene quickly ignited criticism across social media, with many accusing the governor of political grandstanding amid a volatile situation involving federal law enforcement.

“No, that is what pandering looks like. If he had not put in place policies that prevented the cops from doing crowd control, this would never have happened,” one user wrote.

“The guy who allowed billions of taxpayer dollars to be stolen by Somalians and sent to Al-Shabab terrorists is not ‘true leadership,'” another added.

“Walz is literally going to be investigated for fraud, and you want to grandstand leadership. His political career is finished; this is the pinnacle,” a third user posted.

Meanwhile, the wife of Renee Good — the woman killed during the ICE encounter — has gone public with her account of the incident. In a statement to Minnesota Public Radio, Becca Good described her spouse in glowing terms, writing that Renee “was made of sunshine.”

Becca Good claimed the couple had simply stopped by “ICE protests” to support neighbors, adding, “We had whistles. They had guns.”

Notably absent from her statement, however, was any acknowledgment of Renee Good’s documented history as a left-wing activist — or her reported involvement with a group that tracked and harassed ICE agents during enforcement operations.

According to the New York Post, Renee Good was affiliated with ICE Watch, a radical activist network focused on monitoring and resisting federal immigration enforcement through mobile apps and rapid-response alert systems.

The group’s Minnesota affiliate, Minnesota ICE Watch, openly describes itself as “an autonomous collective dedicated to documenting, archiving, and resisting ICE, police, and all colonial militarized regimes,” according to its Instagram page.

The organization urges activists to submit “tips and sightings” of ICE agents around the clock via social media, asking contributors to detail “how many agents are present,” whether “they are detaining/ kidnapping someone,” and precisely where operations are taking place.

Posts also encourage reporting on “what weapons” agents are carrying and “what vehicles are they present with.” One repost promoted training on “how to stand with…neighbors and assert their rights against these illegal injustices across MN and the rest of the Midwest!”

While the national ICE Watch network does not explicitly instruct followers to physically interfere with arrests, the Minnesota chapter has reportedly circulated content outlining how to “de-arrest” individuals — a tactic law enforcement officials say dangerously escalates encounters.

Video circulating on social media appears to show Becca Good confronting the ICE agent involved in the shooting shortly before the fatal incident.

Federal officials maintain that the officer fired his weapon after Good’s vehicle moved toward agents during an active law enforcement operation — a claim Homeland Security leadership says justified the use of force to protect lives. That account, officials say, is consistent with video evidence from the scene.

Critics, including Democratic local officials and members of Good’s family, dispute the federal narrative and argue deadly force was unnecessary. Many law enforcement officers and senior officials, however, strongly disagree, warning that activist interference in federal operations creates life-threatening conditions for agents and civilians alike.

As tensions over immigration enforcement continue under President Donald J. Trump’s second-term administration, the Minneapolis shooting has become a flashpoint — exposing the dangerous collision between radical activism, local political leadership, and federal law enforcement.