Frankfort ‘ICE Out For Good’ draws marchers in protest of Minneapolis shooting
About 160 people, most of them dressed in black, marched somberly through drizzle in downtown Frankfort Saturday in protest of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.
The silent march was one of many “ICE Out For Good” demonstrations throughout the country this weekend. A similar event is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11 at the Fayette County Courthouse Plaza in Lexington.
Tona Barkley said the funereal feel of the Franklin County march seemed appropriate in light of Wednesday’s shooting.
“This murder in Minneapolis has upset everybody,” said Barkley, co-leader of Capital Indivisible, which organized the march in Frankfort. “We were already upset, and this was just over the top. Everybody wanted to express their grief and outrage.”
Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother, was shot dead in her Honda Pilot Jan. 7 on a residential Minneapolis street after a brief confrontation with ICE agents. An agent identified as Jonathan Ross discharged his weapon into her vehicle at least three times as she attempted to pull away from officers. The shooting was caught on video.
Barkley said she was happy with the turnout in Frankfort, considering the rain and the fact that the event was pulled together in less than 48 hours.
While she said “deportations have been going on for years,” the way President Donald Trump’s administration has gone about addressing immigration enforcement “is not acceptable.”
“They’re even picking up citizens. They’re putting people who are here legally in jail. It’s inhumane. It’s traumatic,” Barkley said. “The vast majority of American citizens are against this.”
She said statements like those by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who referred to Good’s actions as “an act of domestic terrorism,” are “disgusting to people.”
Barkley, whose group stages weekly protests outside the Republican Party of Kentucky’s offices in Frankfort, said she and others “would like to see ... Republicans in Congress take back their power and stand up to Trump.”
Amy McGrath, one of several Democrats running for Mitch McConnell’s seat in the U.S. Senate, was among the marchers in Frankfort.
“Everybody here is worried about our country,” she said.
While Kentucky has not experienced the same intensity of raids by ICE as some large cities have, McGrath said, “that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t care.”
“I think so many of us saw that and ... realize this is not where we need to be,” McGrath said. “This president has overreached.”
Sen. Morgan McGarvey, a Louisville Democrat, is among a number of legislators who have voiced support for Noem’s impeachment.
McGarvey said in a post on social media Friday “the tragic murder of Renee Nicole Good underscores” what he described as Noem’s “incompetent leadership.”
Thursday during a news briefing, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear called the shooting “foreseeable” and “preventable,” while taking aim at Trump’s administration.
“No. 1: We’ve got to go about this entirely different than we are right now,” he said. “Yes, we need secure borders, but how we enforce our law shows our humanity or lack of it, and this administration is definitely showing a lack of it”
This story was originally published January 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM.
