Colorado reacts to the death of Renee Good

Protesters display an anti-ICE sign at a protest in Denver Friday night, Jan. 9, 2025. (Sagan Randall/CU Independent)

Protests broke out across Colorado on Friday after Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman, was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

Following the shooting, people across the nation took to the streets to condemn the killing and mourn the death of Good.

Good, a U.S. citizen originally from Colorado Springs, was fatally shot by the agent while driving her car on Wednesday. During the incident, she began to pull forward as agents ordered her to get out of her vehicle, prompting one to fire his weapon through the windshield and driver’s side window of the SUV. The shooting quickly garnered national attention when videos captured from multiple angles were shared online.

Protests and vigils were held across the country in the days following the shooting, including an “ICE Out For Good” protest in downtown Boulder on Saturday.

Local environmental activist and University of Colorado alumnus Jim Morris was present at the Saturday protest in Boulder.

“It just seems really bad. These ICE people are masked,” Morris said about ICE activity across the country. “We shouldn’t be starting wars and pointing fingers and creating fear of immigrants and fear of people of color.”

Local environmental activist Jim Morris holds a sign at an anti-ICE protest on Saturday in Boulder on the corner of Broadway and Canyon Boulevard. Jan. 10, 2026. (Sagan Randall/CU Independent)

An “emergency protest” took place in Denver on Friday night, attracting hundreds of attendees decrying President Donald Trump’s administration and ICE’s actions. Many participants mourned the death of Renee Good, chanted her name, and displayed signs with messages commemorating her. Chants included, “ICE out for Good” and calls to “kill Jonathan Ross,” the ICE agent who shot and killed Good.

Beginning in front of the Colorado State Capitol, where people gathered to listen to speeches, the protest later evolved into a march throughout downtown Denver.

Some protesters wear masks during an anti-ICE demonstration in Denver on Friday night, Jan. 9, 2026. (Sagan Randall/CU Independent)

Protesters burn the American flag on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol on Friday night, Jan. 9, 2026. (Sagan Randall/CU Independent)

Protesters carry signs commemorating Renee Good in a march through downtown Denver on Friday night, Jan. 9, 2026. (Sagan Randall/CU Independent)

Anti-ICE protesters march past Union Station on Friday night, Jan. 9, 2026. (Sagan Randall/CU Independent)

In Boulder, protesters gathered on the corner of Broadway and Canyon Boulevard with signs, costumes and flags.

Demonstrators gather at the corner of Broadway and Canyon Boulevard in Boulder to protest ICE on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. (Sagan Randall/CU Independent)

A veteran protestor, who wished to be identified as Josh for privacy’s sake, served from 2002 to 2006 in Afghanistan and Iraq as a counter-intelligence Marine.

“I joined as a far-right Christian nationalist,” he said. “I was motivated to join by George Bush and Dick Cheney saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.”

Josh described how his experiences in the military changed his perspective.

“The horrors that I saw inflicted upon civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq turned me into the polar opposite, politically. I got out, I went to university, studied history and philosophy, and that really helped me,” Josh explained. “I grew up wanting to be the good guy.”

Waving a large flag reading “Resist,” Josh explained that he had been doing so around Boulder since President Trump, “called for the death of the Democratic senators who told active duty [soldiers] not to follow unlawful orders.”

Josh referenced a November social media post by President Trump that called a video compelling soldiers not to comply with illegal orders “Seditious Behavior, punishable by Death!”

Now subscribing to a new political ideology, Josh is angered by the domestic actions of ICE.

“To see a representative of the United States shoot a mother, and the cowardice of that man to make the claim to men like me, to other veterans, to other people that served that he felt in fear of his life […] it sends my brain into white noise chaos,” He said about the ICE agent who killed Good. “I can’t put words to how cowardly and pathetic and spineless that is.”