‘ICE out of Fort Worth’: Protesters rally in downtown over ICE shooting in Minn.
A crowd of several hundred people in downtown Fort Worth on Saturday protested the shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good in Minneapolis by a federal agent.
The demonstration, which started at 4 p.m., was one of hundreds organized around the country Saturday in response to the deadly confrontation in Minnesota and the wounding of two people in Portland. The protests have largely been peaceful.
In Fort Worth, the crowd marched through the streets chanting, “ICE out of Fort Worth.”
The Fort Worth organizers included several North Texas activist groups including Indivisible, the organization behind the No Kings rallies.
The crowd gathered at General Worth Square, the green on Main Street in front of the Convention Center, to hear speeches before marching through downtown. Fort Worth police officers on bicycles monitored the event.
Several other protests have taken place across North Texas, including a protest in Dallas on Thursday night attended by several hundred people and a protest Saturday in Southlake.
The circumstances of Good’s death, captured on video from several angles, have been widely disputed this week.
Good was shot in her car after agents approached the vehicle, which was blocking agents on a residential street. She was ordered to get out of her vehicle. An agent opened fire when Good accelerated her SUV. The Trump administration said the agent was acting in self-defense; others say the use of deadly force was clearly unnecessary.
The organizers of Saturday’s Fort Worth protest included these activist groups: the Fort Worth chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, Indivisible Fort Worth, Tarrant County Young Democrats, Panther City Anarchist Organization, Sunrise Tarrant, and the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the National Alliance Against Race and Political Oppression.
“We are here to honor and humanize the lives taken by ice to demand accountability, transparency and an immediate investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good,” Sabrina Ball, an organizer with Indivisible, told the Star-Telegram.
Ball, a Fort Worth mother, said that she and other organizers have heard from several families recently who had loved ones taken by immigration officers in the Metroplex.
“I get calls and texts about parents taken,” Ball said. “I have a teacher friend who told me that one of her refugee students, who’s supposed to graduate in May — did everything right, was a good student — was taken at his immigration hearing.”
As the group walked through downtown Fort Worth, several members of the Broadway Baptist Church walked hand-in-hand.
“We care very much about justice and love, and we feel that the values that are being projected by ICE and by the entire Trump administration right now are antithetical to our understanding of the gospel, as well as being antithetical to constitutional norms,” said Alan Bean, a member of the church. “So that’s why we’re here.”
After marching through downtown, the protesters returned to General Worth Square before dispersing. The Star-Telegram did not witness any counter-protestors or violence.
Buddy Luce, an organizer with Indivisible TX-24, told the Star-Telegram that a protest in Southlake also on Saturday brought out around 80 people.
Luce and other activists have been protesting every Saturday outside the Tesla at Southlake Town Square since last spring. What started out as a protest against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, evolved to protests against other Trump administration actions including the government shutdown, the Epstein files and ICE operations across the country.
This story was originally published January 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM.
