Candlelight vigil outside Palo Alto City Hall as speakers call for justice and accountability (ProBonoPhoto/Zach Lovett)
On Sunday, January 11, 2026, community members filled King Plaza in front of Palo Alto City Hall for a candlelight vigil honoring Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis while standing witness for her immigrant neighbors. Organized by It's Blue Turn and Indivisible Palo Alto Plus as part of the national “ICE Out For Good” response, the vigil called out ICE’s escalating violence and demanded accountability.
Candles, flowers, and signs form a memorial space at the center of King Plaza (ProBonoPhoto/Jillian Lovett)
Once again, this MAGA regime of bullies for billionaires is destroying our lives and our country. ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good as she was bravely standing witness to their assault on her immigrant neighbors. We gathered to mourn her life and the lives of those who have died in ICE custody. We gathered to speak the truth. We gathered to demand accountability and justice.
Ret. Judge LaDoris Cordell speaking (ProBonoPhoto/Zach Lovett)
Speakers named other people killed by ICE, connected Renee’s death to a pattern of paramilitary-style raids and disappearances, and reminded everyone that every person ICE has killed had a family, a community, and a life that mattered. Participants held candles, sang quiet songs, and wrote remembrances and messages of solidarity. Many signs lifted up Renee by name and called for ICE to be abolished.
Watch the full one-hour vigil on YouTube, read about it in the Palo Alto Online, and see more photos by Pro Bono Photo.
What to do next
Renee’s killing is not an isolated tragedy. ICE violence is part of a broader authoritarian project. If you were moved by this vigil, turn that grief into action:
Print a stack and share at rallies, meetings, campuses, and community spaces
Join the ICE Awareness Corps
ICE Awareness Corps is our project to fight ICE’s growing power with local action in our communities. We train with Rapid Response Network, canvass local businesses to distribute ‘Employees Only’ signs which can deter ICE and educate employers on their rights and responsibilities, hand out zines and know-your-rights cards, and more.
Learn more & sign up for ICE Awareness Corps
Join a Rapid Response Network
Rapid Response Networks mobilize neighbors when ICE shows up: verifying reports, documenting abuses, supporting families, and connecting people to legal help and community care.
Sign up to volunteer with a Rapid Response Network
(Learn how Rapid Response protects neighbors)
Tell Congress to rein in ICE
Use Indivisible’s “ICE Out For Good” tool to email all your members of Congress. Demand they oppose any DHS funding bill that expands ICE or Border Patrol, and insist on real limits, oversight, and accountability.
Contact Congress via ICE Out For Good
Come stand up for justice with us
On Feb.7, we will again stand in the streets to demand the end to ICE harassment of our communities. Join us!
Reading this after the event is over? Join It's Blue Turn to learn about our direct action, events, and teams to advance democracy in our country.
Know your rights, share the knowledge
ACLU Maine's Preparing For ICE includes know-your-rights guidance, planning tips, hotline/reporting info, support for detained loved ones, and multilingual downloadable materials.
No Kings' Resource Guide covers how to prepare for protests, know and assert your rights (including when confronted by ICE), and organize nonviolent community responses to repression.
Authoritarianism is not inevitable. Join us in fighting it.
