Renee Good.

Our country experienced an unconscionable tragedy last week.

On Wednesday, ICE agents shot and killed an unarmed American: Renee Nicole Good. She was 37. She had 3 children. And she cared deeply for her community and the people around her.

Renee was shot for exercising her legally guaranteed right to observe and document law enforcement. She, like millions of other Americans, had seen the horrors being inflicted upon communities by ICE and wanted to do her part to keep her neighbors safe.

For months, everyone from Democratic lawmakers, immigration advocates, local law enforcement, and regular Americans have warned about the danger ICE's reckless and unaccountable behavior has created. Now, that danger has become a tragedy.

This was not inevitable.

Renee's killing was a direct result of the Trump administration's cruelty. It was a direct result of an administration that traffics in the vilest forms of hatred and seeks to pit us against one another. It was the direct result of empowering millions of untrained and unvetted thugs to occupy our cities.

Now they have the gall to lie to our faces, call this woman a "domestic terrorist," and attempt to justify this vile and horrific act through lies.

I was the first Member of Congress to call for ICE's abolition, and I wholeheartedly stand by that statement today.

An agency that acts with impunity towards Americans, which brings violence and unrest to our communities, which acts as the Trump administration's secret police, has no place on our streets, in our homes, or anywhere at all.

This is a bleak moment in our nation's history. But we must look to the light within ourselves, within our neighbors, to guide us out of the darkness.

In solidarity,

Jim