Hundreds gather in Downtown Long Beach to protest the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis

Two candles, placed on a bollard outside Long Beach City Hall, flicker in the dark Thursday night as a crowd chants "fuck ICE." The name Renee Nicole Good adorns dozens of signs as hundreds gathered to protest her death at the hands of an ICE agent in Minneapolis the day before.

A mother of three, Good was gunned down by Jonathan Ross Wednesday as he and other federal agents conducted an immigration enforcement operation. Ross, 43, was previously dragged more than 50 yards by a car during an incident last year when he broke a driver's window and reached inside, according to multiple reports.

The killing of Good has sparked waves of protest across the country. In Downtown Long Beach, protesters denounced what they say was plainly a murder. They chanted “ICE out of Long Beach” and “abolish ICE," among other slogans.

“This is another martyr in the peoples’ struggle,” said Anthony Bryson, co-founder of SoCal Uprising, which organized the protest. “Understand that Renee Nicole Good is not the only individual slain by ICE.”

“When I woke up in the morning and saw that news, I was devastated,” said Oscar Zamora, a member of the CSULB Divest Coalitions. “I found it so difficult to swallow that one of our own was murdered in cold blood. Immediately, Kiristi Noem goes on to lie on live television.”

Good was shot and killed around 9:30 a.m. CT Wednesday morning. Two hours later, Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, held a press conference in Brownsville, Texas on immigration enforcement during which she was asked about the incident in Minneapolis. In response, Noem immediately called Good a “domestic terrorist.”

Noem claimed that ICE vehicles were “stuck in the snow” and that agents were attempting to push them out when they were “attacked” by Good, who then attempted to “run them over and ram them.”

But numerous videos, shot from different angles, tell a completely different story.

Video of events leading up to the shooting show Good parked in the street, partially blocking traffic. At one point, her car begins to pull forward as if to leave the scene, which she had been instructed to do by federal agents. A federal vehicle, however, quickly drives around her and leaves the scene.

Good then waves toward agents who were in a pickup truck, signaling them to also go around before she leaves. Instead, those agents parked, exited the truck and approached Good’s car. One agent tried to open her driver door and then, after failing to do so, reached in through her open window.

It was at this point that Good reversed her car as if to position it to leave the scene to her right. While one agent was reaching in through her window, another positioned himself near the driver-side headlight. As Good put the car into drive, that agent can be seen drawing his gun.

Slow-motion footage of the shooting shows that both the agent’s feet were clear of the tires, which were turned to the right, away from him, when the first shot was fired. The officer then appeared to shoot two more rounds directly into Good’s window despite being fully clear of the vehicle’s path.

According to a September 2018 memo from the DHS, deadly force is only authorized when agents have “a reasonable belief” that someone poses an “imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury” to the agent or others nearby. The memo also states deadly force is not authorized as a means to “prevent the escape of a fleeing subject.” Agents are also prohibited from shooting at the operator of a moving vehicle except in extreme circumstances.

The same memo says that medical care should be given “as soon as is practicable following a use of force” once there is no longer a threat. But in videos of the aftermath, agents were seen keeping a man, who identified himself as a physician, from giving aid to Good.

“Can I check her pulse?” the man asked agents, who denied him access. “I’m a physician,” he said, to which an agent replied, “I don’t care.”

Congressman Jared Moskowitz, D-Florida, lambasted Noem Thursday for how quickly she spun a false narrative about the shooting.

“She deserves to be removed from her job by the president,” Moskowitz said.

President Donald Trump, however, was also quick to lay blame for the incident squarely on Good. In a post on Truth Social, the president called Good “disorderly," saying she “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer.” Trump added that the agent was “recovering in the hospital.”

Video from multiple angles clearly shows that no agent was “ran over” during the incident. In fact, video shows Jonathan Ross, the agent who killed Good, casually walking to her vehicle after the shooting caused it to crash. He then turned around and requested other agents call 9-1-1. Another video then shows Ross getting into a vehicle of his own volition and driving away from the scene, seemingly altering the crime scene before any investigation could begin.

Vice President JD Vance justified the shooting Thursday, saying the agent is protected by “absolute immunity” because he was “doing his job that he was asked to do. The reason this woman is dead is because she tried to ram somebody with her car and that guy acted in self-defense.”

Legal experts have been quick to deny that ICE agents have "absolute immunity" from prosecution for crimes they commit on the job, with one even calling the notion "absolutely ridiculous," according to CNN.

In any case, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, along with the FBI, has taken over the investigation into the shooting of Good. Minnesota’s investigations agency said Thursday that the U.S. attorney’s office has prevented it from taking part in the investigation.

Former Long Beach mayor turned Congressman Robert Garcia, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump and his administration as the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, did not mince words when asked about the killing of Good by a reporter from the MeidasTouch Network.

“The murder that we saw with our own eyes is horrific, disgusting," Garcia said. "Every American should be outraged by what happened in Minneapolis. And the fact that there’s been no accountability and that the DOJ wants to investigate it themselves is insane. They can’t be trusted to investigate anything.”

Local law enforcement should be leading the investigation, Garcia said, adding that the Oversight Committee is continuing to gather information about possible misconduct related to immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.

“Every single person who has caused harm to the American public, to people, needs to be held accountable,” Garcia said.

In a social media post Thursday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said ICE agents are “undertrained and trigger happy.” Hahn called on Noem to withdraw federal agents from U.S. cities, saying “they are dangerous and they are killing people.”

In an Instagram post, Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson condemned the killing of Good, saying these “atrocities must not be normalized” and that “death should never be dismissed as collateral damage.”

“In Long Beach, we’ve seen how these federal enforcement tactics escalate fear and put lives at risk,” Richardson wrote. “They do not make people safer.”

When asked why she attended the Downtown protest, Amy Hernandez, 29, a Long Beach resident, said that Good might still be alive “if more people cared about the Black and Brown [people] who have lost their lives leading up to this.”

The protesters marched from City Hall to Pine Avenue, where they turned south to head toward the Pike Outlets. More than a dozen Long Beach police officers, however, formed a line at Seaside Way, blocking the protesters. Batons and less-lethal projectile weapons drawn, officers told protesters they could only march along Ocean Boulevard.

Without incident, the march turned back the way it came, making its way to the Hilton Long Beach. At the hotel, the crowd made noise and denounced the brand, which has been known to house federal agents while they are conducting operations within the region.

At one point, some protesters were banging on the glass of the lobby and shouting at the people inside. Several protesters even entered the building to condemn management.

Hernandez told the Watchdog that the Trump administration’s response is just more of the same.

“They're compulsive liars and they don't care about what we see,” Hernandez said. “They are gaslighting you into thinking that what you see with your own eyes isn't reality. They have no shame.”