Vigil for Renee Nicole Good at London US Embassy

Indivisible London, Stop Trump, and Tesla Takedown hosted a vigil for Renee Nicole Good and all victims of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on 12 Jan 2026.

Below are the speeches and readings from the vigil.

On Wednesday, January 7th, an American citizen, Renee Nicole Good, was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This killing is part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence and abuse carried out by federal immigration enforcement agencies against people in the United States. 

In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. 

We gather here today to send a message to anyone targeted and terrorized by ICE: You are not alone. 

Not only are all of us here today, but over 300 more people sent in messages of support which have been printed and handmade into these flowers, of which every petal is a message from someone who couldn’t be here today. People have sent in messages from every part of the United Kingdom from Belfast to Bradford, New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, France, Australia, Italy, and Germany

So again I say to those being terrorized by ICE — you are not alone. The world is watching. 

Renee Nicole Good was a normal person. She dropped her 6 year-old off at school that day, and planned to pick them up. But when she answered the call to help defend her neighbours, to act as a legal observer of ICE raids in her neighbourhood, she was killed for it — and now her kids will grow up without her. 

We have seen the videos of her death. We’ve seen her tell the officer “I’m not mad at you.” We’ve seen her turn the car away from the agent standing in front her. And we’ve seen him murder her, unequivocally. Now we’re being told that none of that is true — that she was attacking him, that he deserves a debt of gratitude. 

But part of what is so important about gathering together like this is reinforcing the truth — we know what we saw, and it was a state-sanctioned murder for resisting Trump. 

It’s tempting to make heroes of people like Renee — and it’s true, she died doing what was right, and that is heroic. But I want to caution us from viewing people as heroes instead of as people just like us. Because each one of us is going to have to stand up, as normal people, and we might not feel like heroes. We’ll be frightened, and with good reason. But it’s less frightening to stand together. That’s why we’re here today. 

We often hear that this is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. But that’s not right either — this is a relay. This race began long before we were here and it will continue long after us. 

It might feel like nothing changes, when we never see a finish line — but all of our effort is worthwhile. It is our duty to pick up the baton from those before us, and from people like Renee, and get it as far forward as possible for those who come after us. 

Despair is a tool of the tyrants — their world of control and violence is not inevitable, they just want us to feel that way. It is up to us to cultivate the discipline of hope — to imagine a better world than the one they would doom us to. This is one of the most powerful acts of resistance, and one that Renee died for.  

We may never feel like we’ve seen direct results from anything we do in our lifetimes, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t made a difference. We never know which action, which effort, which name is going to be the spark that ignites, and is revered decades and centuries later as the moment that changed everything. But today, one of those sparks is Renee Nicole Good. 

And she joins a list no one should be on, which is those who have been killed by ICE or died in detention. I’ll now read the names of those we know who have died because of ICE, and I ask you to join me afterwards in a moment of silence. 

Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado

Brayan Garzón-Rayo

Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdez

Chaofeng Ge

Delvin Francisco Rodriguez

Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir

Francisco Gaspar-Andrés

Gabriel Garcia Aviles

Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh

Henry Ruiz Guillén

Huabing Xie

Isidro Pérez

Ismael Ayala-Uribe

Jean Wilson Brutus

Jesus Molina-Veya

Johnny Noviello

Josué Castro Rivera

Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez

Kai Yin Wong

Leo Cruz-Silva

Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas

Maksym Chernyak

Marie Ange Blaise

Miguel Angel Garcia Medina

Nenko Stanev Gantchev

Nhon Ngoc Nguyen

Norlan Guzman-Fuentes

Oscar Rascon Duarte

Pete Sumalo Montejo

Santos Banegas Reyes

Serawit Gezahegn Dejene

Shirez Fatehall Sachwani

Silverio Villega Gonzalez

Tien Xuan Phan

Keith Porter

Renee Nicole Good

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"For Renee Nicole Good Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026."

By Amanda Gorman

They say she is no more,

That there her absence roars,

Blood-blown like a rose.

Iced wheels flinched & froze.

Now, bare riot of candles,

Dark fury of flowers,

Pure howling of hymns.

If for us she arose,

Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,

Crouches our power,

The howl where we begin,

Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater

Of the worst of what we’ve been.

Change is only possible,

& all the greater,

When the labour

& bitter anger of our neighbors

Is moved by the love

& better angels of our nature.

What they call death & void,

We know is breath & voice;

In the end, gorgeously,

Endures our enormity.

You could believe departed to be the dawn

When the blank night has so long stood.

But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,

When they forever are so fiercely Good. 

Statement by Becca Good

    First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family.

    This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind. In fact, kindness radiated out of her.

    Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine.

    Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow. Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole.

    Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles.

    What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy. And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever.

    We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine.

    On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.

    Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.

    We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee’s legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.

Thank you all again for being here to honour Renee and all the victims of ICE violence. Thank you to Stop Trump, Tesla Takedown UK, Indivisible London, and Democrats Abroad. Please reach out to any of us if you’d like to get involved in resisting this administration.