Updated article: Click here to see photos from this event that took place on January 10.
Indivisible Santa Barbara, an inclusive community and social movement group, is mobilizing community action this weekend to protest both the death of a woman during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minneapolis and recent U.S. military actions involving Venezuela.
Indivisible Santa Barbara is organizing a protest rally on January 10, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on the 3700 block of State Street, between Hitchcock Way and Hope Avenue, according to the event’s page.
The ‘Ice Out For Good Weekend of Action’ demonstration will also be held on January 11, 2026, to “make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions,” according to the page.
The protest is in response to the death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was fatally shot by an ICE agent on January 7, 2026, in Minneapolis during a law enforcement operation. Federal officials allege Good attempted to strike officers with her vehicle, an account disputed by organizers and community members.
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“The death we witnessed Wednesday in Minneapolis is an echo of what we saw raining from the skies over Venezuela,” said Ian Paige, a member of Indivisible Santa Barbara’s steering committee. “The violence being illegally waged by U.S. militarized forces at home and abroad is inextricably linked. Only we, the American people, can rise up in protest to save vulnerable people worldwide from the life and liberty threatened by Trump and the billionaires he serves.”
In a statement posted on X, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism,” alleging that a woman “weaponized her vehicle” and attempted to run over federal agents.
Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.…
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 7, 2026
DHS said the ICE officer involved, fearing for his life and the safety of others, fired what the agency described as defensive shots.
President Donald Trump defended the actions of the ICE officer in a post on Truth Social on January 8, 2026, referring to Good as a “professional agitator” and stating that she was “disorderly, obstructing and resisting” before being shot, which he characterized as self-defense.
President Trump also shared a video of ICE officers briefly trying to stop the vehicle before Good attempts to speed away and is eventually shot.
Indivisible Santa Barbara said Good’s death is “part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence, impunity, and abuse carried out by federal immigration agencies,” according to the organization’s events page.
Organizers have requested all participants act lawfully, commit to a non-violent action, and discourage any act of civil disobedience. Participants cannot bring weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, to the events.
The planned demonstration will also protest recent U.S. military actions involving Venezuela, including the detention of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on alleged drug trafficking charges.
Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were taken into U.S. custody and transported to the United States on January 3, 2026. President Trump announced that he was putting Venezuela under temporary American control and, as part of the takeover, major American oil companies would move into Venezuela, Reuters reported.
Founded in 2017, Indivisible Santa Barbara was established to advance national democratic reforms, improve health care access, address global climate change, oppose racial injustice, promote socio-economic equality, and support immigration reform.
Vigil Held at Santa Barbara Courthouse for Renee Good
Community members joined together at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse on Wednesday evening to hold a candlelight vigil for Renee Good.
Local activist groups spoke out against ICE calling their enforcement tactics “murderous” and “treasonous.” Organizers led a chant saying Good’s name and speakers discussed the terror that is being felt and experienced in communities on a local and national level.
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Renee Nicole Good’s last words, on video:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/ice-agent-minneapolis-bodycam-footage
CBS report, if you object to the Guardian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EogLZfp2iUI
The best way to prevent being shot at by a federal agent doing his/her job is not to interfere in their duties while they are actively trying to enforce the law. Maintaining law and order in our country is essential and is the basis of how EVERYTHING else follows. Without laws and enforcement, we’re headed toward anarchy.
Yes, enforce the law. Jail the orange felon. Jail the insurrectionists.
Jail the ICE goons that are trampling constitutional rights.
Smurfy you only seem to post here after you have hit the bottle and want to show how much you love to taste the boot.
BFT4ME – wipe the boot leather out of your mouth and answer me a question: Should disobeying an ICE agent who has ZERO JURISDICTION over US Citizens be cause for immediate execution without trial?
Yes or no?
Yeah, and if you dare talk back and try and go home then they shoot you in the head and it’s your fault.
bft4me you had room in there for the whole boot. I am impressed.
You and all the other right wingers justifying this murder with lies might as well have pulled the trigger (three times) yourselves.
Agreed! I don’t get why progressives find it so hard to obey the laws. They think they’d be better off living in anarchy. They have absolutely no clue what the real world is like outside their SB bubble. Sacjon is a perfect example of this ignorance. Supports terrorists groupe like Hamas and wants anarchy in our own country. People like that should be shipped off to Mars IMO
Dan the MAGACAN.
Dan, how is your brother Dayton Aldrich doing?
We’ve seen this lying sociopath before … ho hum.
Now show evidence that progressives commit more crimes than MAGA cultists.
Oh, you can’t? Then STFU.
BFT$ME WE are not headed to ananrcy. And Renee did not break laws.. 1st amendment. She let a car go by and last words were kind ones. After shooting her in the face 3x the ICE thug called her a fing itch…We are knee deep in facism .. And it’s time you wake up from the fog and resist.
interfere? when they are out in publc playing shoot the mother of 3 in a car game, we as the public, we the people have every right to BE THERE. She was not interfering. Even if she “interfered”, that is by no means ground for her to be executed in front of her spouse and neighbors. The agent put himself in harms way by pretending he’s the incredible hulk and can spot a vehicle by standing in front of it. he created the situation. Federal law prohibits them from firing at a moving vehicle. SCOTUS also ruled in 2025 that they do not have pure imunity. the totality of circumstances must be judged and this dude put himself in front of her car, then moved to the front side fender to execute her on the spot. This is wrong no matter how you paint it. It’s murder of an unarmed mother of 3 in her car.
Anyone clear what these protests do? From what I see, it’s a bunch of grey hairs, instigating annoying honking that bothers the neighborhood, then they all go home and everything is exactly the same. Is this just a self esteem program for bored retirees?
Better fighting fascism than being a triggered whiny little school girl complaining about retirees.
Larping about being a freedom fighter is more apt. They aren’t fighting anything, just posturing for their own self importance.
“their own self importance?” Are you people really so wildly stupid that you don’t understand what is happening in this country? Did you “patriotic” conservatives forget all those freedoms our forefathers gave us and our fathers and grandfathers fought to preserve? The crap Trump and his lapdogs are doing should rattle the soul of ALL Americans. How freedom, dignity, and the rule of law are now “liberal talking points” is f*cking outrageous. Where is your spine?
I feel like your kind doesn’t really know what is happening. Well, that or you like it. Which is it?
You can fit the full boot inside.
Just wait until people start “doing something”. When Feds start getting dropped by citizens you’ll be screaming.
Really? Are you encouraging or just expecting violence? That’s the kind of rhetoric that is a real problem right now. Of course, you won’t be the one who will “drop Feds”, will you? Man, some people don’t get it.
You lead the pack.
Basic, your comments are typical of the smarmy, wishy washy, conservative beta male who would hide under the table the first sign that sh%$ was going down. To suggest someone was encouraging violence are indicative of being a boot-licking Karen. You’re in the database.
Both encouraging and expecting. I’ll say this–some people out there are lucky I have kids.
You’re fine with a bunch of masked terrorist mercenaries harassing, beating and killing people who have done nothing wrong. You just don’t get it–until it’s you in the crosshairs.
It’s ALWAYS projection with you RW slime.
Yeah you really hate when peopler exercise their first amendment rights, huh? Guess what, you can jus move TF along.
It’s fine, but their efforts could be put to something that actually produces value.
Like what, Smurfo? What else can the majority of Americans do at this point?
The only thing they could ever do, vote. Support candidates not owned by the oligarcy. Vote out poseurs and personalities that do not advocate and legislate for working people. Stop sending idiots to Washington and Sacramento because they say things that make you feel all warm in your tum-tum, then see them do absolutely nothing to improve your life.
So instead of coming out to protest, they could be voting … only there’s no election being held.
All the things that you say they should be doing *instead*, they are doing *also*.
What can one conclude from this? That you are a troll, a clown, an unserious unscrupulous person acting in bad faith.
I don’t know. Sometimes I get bored and you guys are so easy.
Smurf, Thanks for admitting you are a joke.
It’s all a joke. If you can’t look at the state of the world and laugh, then you belong here arguing with the same 5 guys over and over.
That’s sociopathy.
You yapping is so much more important and valuable.
EL SMURFO – there are a LOT of young people here in town going to these protests. Looking at a few photos doesn’t make you an expert on the demographics.
What do they do? They show the world that MOST AMERICANS aren’t cucks that worship a rapist and (likely) pedophile who couldn’t tell the truth if his worthless life depended on it. You guys are the minority.
Also, they show the federal government that their time is nearing an end. The 2026 elections are going to hurt your side.
Finally, they provide a venue for like minded (and morally good) people to congregate and express their outrage.
All of these are good things.
I drive by them every time. They are usually in front of the YMCA. The number of people of working/parenting age is far less than the number of folks who have nothign better to do.
If holding a sign proves you aren’t a “cuck”, then we are truly a joke of a country. I’m not the minority, I’m the majority of people who recognize that nothing will come of this and get on with my life. Just because I don’t carry my “no cucks” sign to Starbucks after a long hour of standing and waving doesnt mean I agree with anything happening in Washington (or Sacramento for that matter).
SMURF – you have not driven by this protest because it hasn’t happened. True, there may be more adults than youth in a lot of the regular protests but that is entirely irrelevant.
If you think you’re in the majority here, you’re dead wrong. Look at Trump’s ratings.
Holding a sign does not prove anything other than you’re not going to lie back and take it like you seem to enjoy. Again, reality time – the majority of this country is furious. You can sit and do nothing and whine about others speaking out or you can join us. Or…. you can continue to lie back and take it like a good bootlicker.
Holding the sign while you take it just means you made a sign, nothing else. I find Trump repellant, but I find these smugfests pathetic.
It’s ALWAYS projection with you trolls. You are the ultimate in smug, as every one of your clownish posts demonstrate.
Like I said, get a decent candidate next time around of your so pi$$ed. I think you fail to realize how many people – not in your tiny Edhat bubble here – but across the nation, do not appreciate your political party. Talk “majority” all ya want, but talk is cheap. Elections matter. Right now the Dems are all jacked up.
how come you never criticize trump or anyone in the GOP?
trump is self criticizing and the gop are “bootlickers” as folks here are fond to say. i criticize the left because they allowed and continue to allow all this. these protests are like one of schumer’s “strongly worded letters”…useless and pathetic expressions of self important nobodies.
Talk about self-important nobodies!
” i criticize the left ”
The question was for basic. You’re either a narcissist or a sock.
Because he’s a big supporter of child ra****s and racism.
I think Greenland is a terrible idea. There ya go!
You’re not ok with Greenland, but you defend child ra****s and fascism.
Basic, you get a decent candidate next time. Stop supporting child ra****s and fascism. Its a sick way to go. Not Christians at all.
I don’t have a political party. I vote for independent politicians we actually perform for the working person. That the dems are so “jacked up” is why we have trump. They chase wedge issues and get into bed with oligarchs instead of reforming our broken end stage capitalist system.
not ok with any of it. just don’t think holding a sign does anything but make you feel like you’ve done something. it’s like a new years resolution, the making of it gives you the hit of dopamine so you don’t have to follow through with any real work. it’s larping, that is all. cosplaying a resistance fighter when you are really just a joke.
btw, not running away again. my posts on edhat have always been censored so you don’t get them real time.
SMURF – your comments are not censored. Learn what that word means. They’re still here. Quit your incessant crying.
I’m a Bernie supporter who votes for people that actually do stuff. Black and white thinking like yours is why we have Trump in the first place, so pat yourself on the back and see you at the rally.
Bernie supports the no kings protests. You aren’t Bernie supporter. You are a MAGACAN
Bernie Sanders. Who has been yelling at clouds for fifty years and never done a thing. That’s who you support? LOL.
I’ve seen you comment here and at Reddit for years. You’re a right winger.
For some reason, a bunch of people feel that they have nothing better to do than to try to save your sorry little ignorant ass from living the rest of your life in a despotic kleptocracy.
Get a clue.
You’re spot on. Same ignorant progressives who were protesting in favor of Hamas — a literal terrorist organization. These people have no jobs and no life while the rest of us work to support them. Filth
Dan, Ignorant people use their real name to post nonsense in a small community.
Dan and Dayton are different people but they’re both dishonest trash.
Dan, you support child ra****s, destroyers of the constitution, bigots and women haters, and other parasitic MAGA criminals.
DA – Glad you signed your comment at the end with your real name.
DAN ALDRICH – “These people have no jobs and no life while the rest of us work to support them.”
Oh man, sorry. Well, I guess choosing a life where you have to work Saturday’s is your own fault, right? Personal accountability and bootstraps and whatnot?
So, what is it? Retail? Grocery? You’re clearly not intelligent enough for much more. Let me guess… gas station?
Well, as you child rape lovers always used to say – all you gotta do is work harder.
LOL, I’ll pay around 150k in taxes this year. Do you even make that much?
I believe they were honoring a 37 year old woman , wife mother of 3 who was shot in the face in her hometown by ICE who after killing her called her a fing itch. History shows clearly that being passive never stopped facism. Taking action is a start and it demonstrates solidarity with Renee Goods family and those in Venezuala who were killed and now have foreigners stealing oil and minerals. Would you rather the retirees stay in self contained worlds eating their priv;ledged bon bons or adding up the total of their investments …. than stand up for democracy. Before you judge and ridicule try to think ciritically and take a look at history particularly the 40’s. and Nazi’ rise to power. A lot of the rhetoric is frightenly similar. Seriously get curious and informed.
Trump had a KING Maduro who was not elected, or recognized by any other nations OR the Biden Administration, starved the people, and arrested/disappeared journalists arrested. The people of Venezuela are cheering, and these confused protesters look stupid.
Your comments have already been refuted elsewhere. You’re in the wrong thread so you look (and are) stupid and dishonest as always.
Please refute any of my comment using facts.
You’re not important. Typical MAGAT
It was done, stupid dishonest person.
LOL, same regime in charge in Venezuela. Venezuelans figuring out very quickly that nothing is changing. It’ll take you a lot longer because of the cult rotting your brain.
ZIPS – explain how breaking into government building while the police are telling you to stop and you’re part of a giant and violent mob that has already violently injured countless police officers “less than” a lone woman in her car with her dog doing a 3 point turn to leave the area after receiving conflicting orders by agents who were not in harm’s way?
I mean, to see Babbit’s actions as less “violent” or “deserving” of death is so catastrophically stupid and brainwashed, I honestly don’t know how you can even function in every day society. Does the setting of the sun set you into a daily panic? It must.
The fascist pig ICE agent, Jonathan Ross , a Gadsen flag carrying, Trump thumping MAGAT who MURDERED Renee Nicole Good has gone into hiding (with his family) like the coward garbage he is. I am glad he gets to be on the run with his wife and children – so he can understand the terror he has inflicted. MURDER HAS NO STATUE OF LIMITATIONS. This fascist will be prosecuted after Trump is out of office at the state level. What an absolute garbage excuse for a human being. Not only did he selfishly kill Renee Nicole Good, he ruined his own family and devastated the family and friends of Ms. Good.
The WEAK MAGA mind sheep will tell you people are celebrating in the streets in Venezuela. The truth is Venezuela is a disaster. The streets are now run by armed militias from Marduros ruling party with road blocks everywhere. Oil execs had no idea of Trump’s plan to take over the country as they have no interest in refining oil in Venezuela, there is no profit to be made…