Numerous Connecticut organizations are hosting a candlelight vigil Thursday after the killing of a woman in Minnesota by ICE agents.
“We gather not only to mourn, but to refuse the normalization of violence. When our communities are treated as expendable, the people must stand together and demand justice,” said Tabitha Sookdeo, CT Students for a Dream executive director.
The vigil, to be held Thursday at 6 p.m. at ICE’s field office at 450 Main St., Hartford, will mourn and decry the death of Renee Nicole Good, 37, a mother who leaves a 6-year-old boy now orphaned. Good was killed in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot three times into her vehicle. President Donald Trump has accused Good of domestic terrorism, saying she had intended to weaponize her vehicle to kill ICE agents.
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Organizing groups include, according to a statement from CT Students for a Dream: CT Civil Liberties Defense Committee, ACLU CT, Indivisible CT, 5051CT, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Hartford Deportation Defense, CT Students for a Dream, Danbury Unites for Immigrants, Teamsters 1150 Pride Caucus, Jewish Voices for Peace, Stamford Norwalk United with Immigrants, CT Democratic Socialists of America, Muslim Justice Center, Hartford Jewish Organizing Collective, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Working Families Power and Workers’ Voice CT.
According to a statement from CT Students for a Dream, speakers at the event will include labor leaders, clergy, immigrant organizers and “CT victims of ICE’s violence.”
The statement said ICE agents in Minneapolis killed Renee Nicole Good, “a mother, activist, and community member.”
“A viral video a day earlier showed an off-duty ICE agent with a Nazi neck tattoo walking through the city. According to eyewitness Emily Heller, Renee was told to “move” and as she did so an agent shot her “three or four times” in the face. Her only crime was exercising her constitutionally protected right to record law enforcement operations. In 2025, at least 32 migrants died in ICE’s squalid, inhumane “detention centers.” Immigration officers have fired on at least nine people since September of last year,” the statement said.