Not an activist, had dropped young son at school: Ex-husband of Minneapolis' Renee Good speaks up; new video shows she was turning away

An ex-husband of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by an ICE agent Wednesday in Minneapolis, said Renee was not an activist and had never, to his knowledge, ever attended a protest. The husband declined to be identified for the safety of their children. The ex-husband told reporters that she did not go to the area to join the anti-ICE protest but she was in the vicinity to drop off her six-year-old at the school. She was a devoted Christian and a stay-at-home mom, he told, adding that Good moved to the city recently.

The father of the 6-year-old was Good's second husband, Timmy Ray Mackin Sr, who died in 2023.




Good was originally from Colorado Springs and studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia. With the first husband, Good had two other children who live with the father.

'She had no business there'

Good's former brother-in-law Joseph Macklin, the brother of Timmy Ray Mackin, said she should not have to there in the way of the ICE agents. “She shouldn't have been in the way. She had nothing to do with the ICE agents or immigration, so she shouldn't have been there. She should have minded her own business," the former brother-in-law said. Joseph also said that in the video that he saw it did not seem like she was trying to run the ICE agent over.

The vehicle was turning away

Contrary to the claims of the Trump administration that Renee Good was trying to mow them over, a new video from a different angle shows that the woman was driving away from the ICE agents when an agent in front of her car opened fire.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described Good's actions on Wednesday as 'an act of domestic terrorism' and defended her officer's actions.'An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot to protect himself and the people around him,' she said.She later confirmed ICE operations are still underway in Minnesota in spite of the controversy.

Good's current partner was a woman who described herself as Good's wife and claimed that she brought her into the protest.