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On the recordJanuary 14, 2026
I rise today in grief and in outrage over the killing of an American citizen at the hands of the United States Government. Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She was the mother of three, a devout Christian, a poet, a partner, a compassionate neighbor. She was a woman whose love for her community was only rivaled by the love that she had for her children. Those children will never hear their mother's voice again, feel her embrace, or have her by their side as they are growing into adulthood. That is the human cost of what happened in Minnesota last week. Renee Good's life was taken by a Federal agency emboldened by this administration. Donald Trump and Kristi Noem have created an Immigration and Customs Enforcement with no oversight, no chain of command, no standards, and no restraint. They have created a lawless culture with no accountability, and a mother being shot at point-blank range is the consequence. That is not law enforcement. It is state violence. The Department of Homeland Security was created to protect the American people and defend our Nation against terror. Under Secretary Noem, it has become a source of terror for the American people themselves. From pepper-spraying children to deploying armed masked agents in the neighborhood raids with zero oversight, ICE has become a rogue agency operating above the law. This did not happen by accident. This administration made a deliberate choice.
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Robert F. Kennedy
New York

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Addressing the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal agency and criticizing the administration's policies.

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