Members of the Bowling Green community have joined nationwide efforts to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the killing of Renee Nicole Good.

Protests occured Thursday and Saturday with members of SOKY Indivisible, SOKY Solidarity, Grayson County Citizens for Democracy, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, 50501 Veterans and the Bowling Green Community Defense team in attendance. 

Tina Denzik and her 6-year-old grandson stood with a crowd of more than 20 people outside the local Department of Homeland Security office Thursday in a protest organized by SOKY Indivisible.

Denzik said in the wake of Good’s death, she is worried about her grandson’s future and feels called to do something.

“Everybody needs to be out in the street at least once a week,” Denzik said.

Good, 37, was shot and killed on Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis. Good encountered ICE officers after she dropped off her 6-year-old son at school. 

A video taken by a bystander shows an officer approach Good’s car, demanding she open the door and grab the handle. Good begins to pull forward, and an agent at the front of the vehicle draws his gun, firing at least two shots and killing Good, according to the Associated Press.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Good was using her car as a weapon in an “act of domestic terrorism.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said DHS’s account is a “garbage narrative,” according to The Guardian.

President Donald Trump said that Good “behaved horribly” and ran over the ICE agent, according to The New York Times.

“They killed her,” Denzik said. “They killed her, and I don’t care what the President says.”

On Saturday, more than 60 protesters gathered at the Stadium Park Plaza Structure in a protest organized by SOKY Solidarity alongside various other advocacy groups in Kentucky.

Several activists from across Kentucky spoke to the crowd and marched through downtown shouting “Abolish ICE,” and “Arrest Jonathan Ross,” the ICE agent who killed Good.

Organizer Ayla Joe Newton spoke to the crowd following the reading of Good’s poem “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.”

“How many funerals until enough is enough?” Newton asked the crowd.

Newton also called for ICE to be removed from cities across the nation. Frey called on ICE to “get the f— out of Minneapolis,” in the immediate aftermath of Good’s death.

On Saturday, Bowling Green Community Defense, an organization to protect immigrants in Bowling Green from ICE, sent a letter to various Kentucky politicians, including Bowling Green Mayor Todd Alcott, calling for the removal of ICE from Kentucky communities.

Megan Wingfield, who is running for Congress to represent Kentucky’s second district against incumbent Brett Guthrie, attended the protest. Wingfield encouraged the crowd to grieve for Good and to choose hope.

“Tonight, standing here together, you are proof that hope is still alive,” Wingfield said to the crowd.

As the protest was ending, a group attending a truck meet on the top level of the Stadium Park Plaza Structure began yelling at protesters. Several protesters began yelling back.

A small group of protesters ascended the parking structure to where they were parked, near the truck meet.

Racial slurs, support of ICE and other explicit comments from the attendees of the truck meet could be heard over the roar of engines. Several of the truck owners drove around the protesters who walked to their cars. 

One driver, Matt Edward, declined to comment on Good’s death but said he supported legal immigration to the United States. Edward said people fleeing their home countries should wait because he believes the United States “ain’t much… better than anywhere else.”

Wingfield released a statement on Facebook regarding the confrontation, encouraging people to continue to protest.

“But let me be clear: we will not be intimidated,” Wingfield said.