ICE agents visit New York woman over Instagram post in Renée Good shooting case

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents visited Paigelynne Gonyea at her New York workplace, demanding she remove an Instagram post that identified a federal agent involved in the fatal shooting of Renée Good earlier this year. Gonyea stated the agents told her she could face arrest if she did not comply.

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For ICE to come to me over a social media post just feels very 1984 to me.

The encounter took place on a Tuesday while Gonyea was working at a polling site in Syracuse. She reported that the agents approached her to discuss a social media post in which she named the ICE officer who shot and killed Good. Gonyea expressed her dismay, telling Syracuse.com, "For ICE to come to me over a social media post just feels very 1984 to me."

Gonyea recounted that the interaction began after she received a phone call from someone claiming to be a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agent. She later shared a voicemail on Instagram where the caller mentioned wanting to discuss a post that "doxed an ICE agent." Gonyea instructed the agents to enter the polling location rather than meet outside, as she was uncomfortable speaking with them alone. She stated the officers presented her with a folder containing copies of her social media posts and her driver's license.

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They definitely should have known better to not go into a polling place, even if I said it was OK.

According to Gonyea, the agents requested she sign a form, informing her that she had violated federal law and instructing her to "remove and/or discontinue" the behavior. She felt pressured while at work and refused to take down the post. The post in question, published on January 8, identified ICE agent Jonathan Ross as the officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renée Good in Minneapolis. Gonyea added, "I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!"

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They tried to scare me into signing it while I was working.

Good's killing, along with another shooting involving Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti weeks later, intensified public anger and reignited debates over U.S. immigration enforcement. The DHS has maintained that both shootings were acts of self-defense and were justified, despite conflicting accounts and available video footage. Gonyea has shared video footage of the encounter, asserting that the agents confronted her over "doxxing" the officer. She disputes this claim, arguing that the agent's name had already been reported in the press and that she had not posted any private identifying information.

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BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!