In the wake of the murder of queer woman Nicole Renee Good at the hands of an ICE agent, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) warned that ICE has now become an anti-civilian, paramilitary organization, rather than only an anti-immigrant one.Bystandervideo footageshows an ICE officerfiring three shots at Goodon Wednesday morning as she tried to drive her car away from agents, who were telling her to get out of the f**king car so they could apprehend her. Related We have literally nothing to lose: Protests erupt across U.S. after ICE kills queer wife & mother People are getting taken off the streets for exercising their free speech rights, Ocasio-Cortez told the press. The president, himself, has asserted that in fact one of the reasons that this murder may have been justified is on free speech grounds. So this is now turned into what our greatest fear is and has been for a long time around ICE, that this will be used as an anti-civilian force that has no accountability.In response to the killing, Trump posted on Truth Social, accusing Good of being very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, even though she was driving away. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today AOC: What we saw today was a horrific act of violence. What we have seen and are now seeing is that ICE has not just become an anti-immigrant forceit is becoming an anti-civilian, paramilitary organization. People are being taken off the streets for exercising their free speech pic.twitter.com/Xw2axVd8Wu Acyn (@Acyn) January 8, 2026The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis, Trump wrote. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate! The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has claimed that the officer fired defensive shots at Good after she was attempting to run over him and other agents in an attempt to kill them an act of domestic terrorism.Ocasio-Cortez slammed the Trump administration for lying about the circumstances surrounding the incident and spreading propaganda. Their editorializing of this event to justify a public murder is disgusting. It is horrifying. Watch it for yourself, and make that assessment to yourself on which of these leaders are lying to you with their statements. Raju: The Speaker and others have said that this driver was weaponizing her vehicle.AOC: Their editorializing of this event to justify this is disgusting. Watch it for yourself and make that assessment for yourself on which of these leaders are lying to you. pic.twitter.com/UZWR036bi5 Acyn (@Acyn) January 8, 2026Ocasio-Cortez said theres no doubt that the shooting was murder. And murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted, she said. What we saw today was a criminal a criminal murder a woman and shoot her in the head while she was trying to escape and flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every Americans worst nightmare, which is their government turning into a tyranny. AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every Americans worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny. pic.twitter.com/DySJ24yMzT Acyn (@Acyn) January 8, 2026Ocasio-Cortez is far from the only one enraged at the story the Trump administration is peddling. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has called the DHS claim bulls**t, calling the agents actions reckless and telling ICE to get the f**k out of Minneapolis.An analysis of four different videos of the incident led the publication404 Mediato conclude that DHS is lying. The Honda was already turning to the right away from the officers when the one who allegedly feared for his life fired the shots. There were no other officers up the road where the car did fully level out, meaning no other fellow officers were at risk,the publication wrote, adding that the DHS has previously published misleading, wrong, or incendiary statements that do not reflect reality and that have been called not credible by at least one federal judge.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.