Responding to the ICE Murder of Renee Nicole Good on 1/7/2026

Nic Hallanger here. I am writing this on Thursday, January 8th, 2026. I was working yesterday afternoon when Mahdi Ali called me from Rush City Correctional Facility and broke the news to me that ICE agents had just murdered someone in Minneapolis. We learned hours later that the person that was murdered was a woman named Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old White woman who was executed in cold blood live on camera for the crime of trying to protect her neighbors from being kidnapped by radicalized white supremacist proud-boy incels sent by the federal government. Mahdi was already in the process of writing a new song to address the ongoing violence committed by federal agents to attack Minnesota's way of life, but the events that unfolded yesterday caused him to rework the song to make it directly discuss the event. Mahdi, the Coalition, and I all pray that there will be no further loss of life as a result of the stochastic terrorism created by our president. I personally fear that Renee Nicole Good is the first of many white people that will be killed by the US government for simply trying to stand up for what they believe is right - that all humans deserve to be treated with respect and dignity, regardless of which paperwork they have access to. Please pray that I am wrong.