Anti-ICE protests marked the beginning of 2026, with hundreds of San Francisco residents joining demonstrations after Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent on the morning of Jan. 7.
Good, a 37-year-old mother, spouse and poet, was idling in her car at the scene of a targeted ICE operation when agents instructed her to move her vehicle. Authorities and witnesses have offered conflicting accounts of her role at the scene, with some reports describing her as a legal observer and others saying she was simply present at the scene.
“That person could have been any of us,” said Sully Atheirne, an organizer with the Northern Californian chapter of Refuse Fascism. “It could have been my friends out here, it could have been me driving to an ICE protest.”