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Several hundred people gathered in downtown Dallas on Thursday evening to protest the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an ICE agent the day before.

After several speeches that started around 7 p.m. in front of City Hall, the demonstrators began marching down Ervay Street and circled near a federal immigration courthouse. Dallas police officers escorted the crowd.

Among the speakers was Noemi Rios, co-founder of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the organization Vecinos Unidos.

“They are cowards,” Rios told the crowd, referring to immigration agents. “They are aggressive, violent cowards.”

As protester Lowry Manders marched with the crowd, she said that she often monitors ICE activity in her neighborhood.

“When I saw what happened, I just knew it could have been me,” Manders said. “I’ve got neighbors in the community that I check on, and it’s just heartbreaking. My family says not to do anything that will get me shot, but [Good] didn’t do anything wrong.”

As of 9 p.m., the protest had remained peaceful with no confrontations reported as the group arrived back at Dallas City Hall.

The rally was one of several around the country after the death of Good in her car on Wednesday morning. In Portland on Thursday, two people were shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a “targeted vehicle stop” when a driver purportedly tried to run over agents, a Homeland Security spokeswoman told the New York Times.

Videos of the shooting in Minnesota showed federal agents approaching Good’s SUV stopped in the middle of a neighborhood street. They ordered her to get out and grabbed the door handle. The SUV began to pull forward before one ICE agent fired at least two shots into the vehicle. Federal and state officials have offered contradicting accounts of those videos.

By Wednesday evening, hundreds of protesters had gathered at the snow-covered intersection in the Minneapolis suburb where Good was shot, roughly a mile from where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020.

Good was the mother of three children and had recently moved to Minnesota. She was a U.S. citizen who seemingly had no criminal record beyond a traffic ticket, according to the Associated Press.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that Good tried to run over immigration officers with her vehicle before one of them opened fire, describing her actions as “domestic terrorism.”

Thursday’s protest in Dallas was organized by the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression with other advocacy groups, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, Vecinos Unidos, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Indivisible Dallas.

“NAARPR Dallas is hosting a protest at City Hall to demand justice for Renee Good and all victims of ICE and police violence,” a representative for the group told the Star-Telegram.

The Dallas Police Department was prepared for the rally.

“We cannot disclose specific operational details, but participants may see officers patrolling in the area, as they would with any large event,” police said earlier in the day. “The Department is committed to protecting and maintaining a safe environment for all who visit, live, and work in the City of Dallas.”

One person was arrested in Dallas in June during a wave of nationwide protests of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.

On Sept. 24, a sniper opened fire on ICE agents and detainees outside a facility near downtown Dallas. Two people were killed before the shooter turned his gun on himself.

Last year, Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux announced that the department was turning down a $25 million partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This story was originally published January 8, 2026 at 9:06 PM.