AURORA | Aurora city lawmakers will consider a resolution Monday night condemning the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis by an ICE officer, as well as local issues regarding ICE in Aurora.
The resolution, slated for consideration at the Aurora City Council meeting, is sponsored by Councilmember Alison Coombs and must garner at least six council votes to pass.
The measure states that Aurora opposes “unlawful and overreaching federal immigration enforcement” by ignoring legal and constitutional guardrails.
Specifically, the measure condemns and ICE agent for “extrajudicially” shooting Renee Good last week.
Good, 37, was killed Wednesday after three Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounded her Honda Pilot SUV on a snowy street a few blocks from her Minneapolis home. Video taken by bystanders shows an officer approaching the SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
The vehicle begins to pull forward and a different ICE officer standing in front of it pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.
Trump administration officials have painted Renee Good as a domestic terrorist who tried to run over an officer with her vehicle. State and local officials in Minneapolis, as well as protesters, have rejected that characterization.
The shooting has prompted national outrage and numerous protests, including a protest that drew hundreds of people to the Colorado Capitol on a frigid Friday night, Jan. 9.
The proposed resolution calls out ICE and the GEO ICE jail in Aurora not only for recent immigrant deportation efforts, but for what the resolution says is a historical record of abuses.
The GEO ICE facility in Aurora has been accused for years of mistreatment of inmates, and has been on at least three occasions been the subject of wrongful death lawsuits.
Aurora Democratic Congressperson Jason Crow has battled federal officials under Democratic and Republican administrations in an effort for the privately operated detention center to provide greater transparency about inmates held there, their conditions and circumstances surrounding their incarceration.
Coombs, in her proposed resolution, refers to recent “unmanaged” illness at the facility.
Federal ICE officials did not immediately reply to a request for information about illness at the facility.
The proposed resolution also referred to an allegation that “A father and child were taken by ICE this week from our city on the way to school and daycare.”
Details on that charge were not immediately available.
If the resolution were to be approved, it would be a turnaround from messaging by the city council during the last four years, and especially the last two.
The conservative majority on the city council previously backed Trump’s efforts to enforce mass deportations in Aurora, and across the country.
Local police have conveyed mixed messaging on their stance in assisting federal immigration officials, saying they would cooperate with ICE and others if they deemed suspects as criminals, but they also have said that local police will not enforce immigration law alone.
During the past year, Aurora police have on more than one occasion held suspects to facilitate ICE arrests and incarcerations.
In October 2024, Trump brought his anti-immigration presidential campaign to Aurora at the behest of former Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky.
The campaign event and Jurinksy’s regular appearance on Fox News TV and other right-wing media drew national attention to the city. Jurinsky and Trump falsely claimed that parts of Aurora, and three apartment complexes in particular, had been overtaken by Venezuelan gang members belonging to Tren de Aragua.
Local police and state officials have repeatedly rebutted the allegation, saying that amid a surge of immigrants being sent to Denver by Texas state officials, some gang-related issues were reported at three apartments, but the incidents were isolated and the complexes were not overrun with gang members.
City officials are in the midst of suing landlords of the three properties, alleging gross mismanagement of the sites.
In November, Republicans lost their majority control of the city council. Democrats now have a 6-4 vote majority among lawmakers and have the ability to push through measures rebuking past conservative mandates by the city council.
Just after the new city council was sworn in, the new majority pushed through a measure reversing a city council limitation on public comment before the council, linked to protests against the city for incidents of excessive police force used against residents, especially people of color.
The measure up for consideration on Monday would say that Aurora “stands in solidarity with the Twin Cities in their call for ICE to leave their community immediately,” according to city documents.
“The Aurora City Council opposes lawlessness and overreach by ICE agents” and will “provide direction to city management regarding limiting cooperation with ICE and their affiliates” after policy committee meetings in February, according to the proposed resolution.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum because the few people who voted enabled this to happen. Now is a good time for those who didn’t vote to consider the consequences of their lack of action.
Concerned? I think you have it. Perhaps change is coming one way or another
Council Member Coombs seeks to speak for me. She does not. She wants to pretend that she speaks for all Aurorans or even for all of Council. She does not. She wants to use valuable legislative time to address issues which are not within Council’s proper purview. If she wants to do so she should get elected to federal offic, otherwise fix our streets, clean our parks, and keep our Fire Department well equiped, the things within a Council Members purview. If she wants to virtue signal on state, regional, and federal social issues she can do so on her own time. To misuse her platform to do so is wrong. At the very least her misguided resolution should state that in the partisan opinion of the current libral majority of City Council, they stand in solidarity with the liberal Governor of Minnesota and the liberal Mayor of Minneapolis, nothing more. Anything more is presumptuous
Well said
Well Publius, when the conservative majority was in, you applauded their every move. You supported their lies about the City and their racist comments both in counsel meetings and their public statements. When they voted to enrich their own businesses to the detriment of the City, I didn’t hear a peep out of you. When they commented on state and national issues, you cheered.
Now that the voters have spoken and we have different representation, you’re going to whine, whine, whine. I support this vote as do many of my friends and neighbors. It’s about time the majority of the City residents are represented.
Another performative exercise by the socialist Coombs with no productive–it’s only meant to virtue signal and divide our community using a tragic event not yet fully investigated. Aurora City Council, do not let Coombs manipulate you into getting in the middle of it.
Thank you Alison Coombs for your brave fight to keep people like Celin Villeda Orellana in the country!
I support the Council Member’s right to her opinions and to her activism. I do not support the use of her position to pursue private agendas. She is, in her role as a Council Member, to represent all of us and to further City needs, not her partisan and private beliefs even when they may be similar to those of others, including, sometimes, myself.
Let’s hope that the new Aurora City Council understands that the socialist way of CM Coombs is to create political misdirection, havoc and chaos whenever possible.
This needless Resolution can only anger half or more of Aurora citizens who have a different view of this situation.
Stay within your local “lane” and leave more social issues alone. CM Coombs will continue to distract you from your real duties. Please realize this and act as you should in your decision making.
This proposal will do nothing except bring more criminal gang members into Aurora. We have what we tolerate…until we no longer do. Vote these people out in the next election.
Aurora is a city of diversity, and the former council sought to weaponize a few isolated incidents into a wholesale invasion of gangs and criminal activity. This was blown into a national media frenzy, exaggerating a localized incident.
I totally support the current council’s efforts to turn the policy around to ensure Aurora’s protection of all who live here. Aurora is a peaceful, wonderful place to live, let’s keep it that way.
Amazing how many approve of ICE killing innocent women, dragging brown people and US citizens out of their cars and their houses. 30% believe this way. The rest dont!