Steven Young calls Renee Good's killing a murder and says police helped the agents leave
Steven YoungGreen Party candidate for governor of Minnesota, posting on X
Young, who was at the scene the day Good was killed, wrote that Minneapolis police took over the perimeter for ICE and let the agents he called murderers leave. He called the police accessories after the fact to her murder.
“I was there on that horrific day and saw MPD take over the perimeter for ICE. They held the line so that murderers could leave and escape justice. Our local cops were -and continue to be- accessories after the fact to her murder and ICE's other crimes.”
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Where this statement fits
Was ICE Officer Jonathan Ross justified in fatally shooting Renée Good?
On January 7, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renée Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, during a federal immigration operation in south Minneapolis. Good, a poet and writer with an English degree from Old Dominion University who had recently relocated to Minneapolis with her wife and children, was in her SUV near East 34th Street and Portland Avenue when agents approached. Ross fired three shots as Good's vehicle turned away from him; she drove several blocks before crashing and was pronounced dead. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said Good had used her vehicle as a weapon against agents and that Ross fired in self-defense. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz disputed that account, saying video of the encounter showed no threat to the agent and calling the self-defense narrative false. The FBI removed the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from the joint investigation the day after the shooting. The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division declined to open its own investigation; Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department was not investigating because circulating video already showed the officer being attacked by the vehicle. As of September 2026, no public charges had been filed against Ross.
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Post by Steven Young, then the Green Party's candidate for Minnesota governor, quoting a post that shared a report on Minneapolis police records from the federal shootings of Renee Good, Julio Sosa-Celis and Alex Pretti.
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Alpha News profile of Steven Young's campaign. It reports, citing his August interview with The North Star Independent, that he left his corporate law job when Operation Metro Surge began and was in the crowd that confronted ICE agents on the day Renee Good was killed.
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Young quoted a post sharing a report, based on Minneapolis police records, that police held the perimeter for ICE after federal agents shot Good. Alpha News later reported that Young was in the crowd that confronted ICE agents on the day Good was killed.
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He was then running for governor as the Green Party's candidate on a platform of abolishing ICE.
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Relative to whether Ross was justified in shooting Good, Young calls the killing a murder and the agents murderers who escaped justice. That condemns the shooting.
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