Renee Nicole Judd was killed on January 7, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an encounter with ICE Agent Jonathan Ross.
Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents visited a woman at her workplace in New York and told her she could be arrested unless she removed an Instagram post identifying a federal agent involved in the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Judd earlier this year, according to her account.Biglin Gonyea said the incident occurred Tuesday while she was working at a polling station in Syracuse. She claims agents approached her to discuss a social media post in which she identified the ICE officer who shot and killed Good earlier this year.“ICE coming to me via a social media post feels like 1984 to me,” she told Syracuse. com.“They definitely should have known that it’s better not to go to the polling station, even if you say it’s okay,” she added.Gonia said the confrontation began after she received a phone call from someone who identified himself as a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agent while she was at work. She later shared a voicemail on Instagram in which the caller said they wanted to discuss a post that “conned an ICE agent.”According to her, she asked the agents to come inside the polling station instead of meeting her outside, because she did not want to talk to them in private.
She said officers arrived with a folder containing copies of her social media posts and her driver’s license.Gonia said the agents asked her to sign a form and told her she had violated federal law. They asked her to “remove and/or stop” the behavior. She added that she felt pressure while working.“They tried to scare me into signing it while I was working,” Gonia told the site, adding that she refused to remove the post.She said the post in question was published on January 8, in which she identified the ICE agent involved in the shooting death of 37-year-old Rene Judd in Minneapolis. “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Rene Judd in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune,” she wrote in the post, adding: “I think today is a great day to charge Jonathan!”Judd’s killing, along with another shooting weeks later of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretty, sparked public outrage and renewed debate over immigration enforcement in the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security previously said both shootings were in self-defense and justified, despite disputes over available video footage.Gonyea also shared video footage of an encounter with ICE agents, saying they confronted her about “investigating” the officer. She disputed this claim, arguing that the agent’s name had already been published in the press and that she had not published the agent’s personal information.Doxing, or doxxing, generally refers to posting privately identifying information online with the intent to harass, intimidate, or endanger an individual.The document Gonia says she was asked to sign was issued under ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). It stated that the Instagram account “TURNDAPAIGE OFFICIAL” was believed to have posted content that could violate federal law.The notice warned that it is unlawful to threaten or incite violence against federal officials or their families, and that posting restricted personal information with the intent to intimidate or facilitate violence may also constitute a federal crime.
It further stated that such actions could lead to prosecution at the federal and state levels.Gonyea refused to sign the document and has since sought legal support, launching a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for civil rights attorneys. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) criticized the incident, noting that the officer’s name had already been announced.“A Free America does not send federal law enforcement agents to intimidate someone over an Instagram post containing publicly available information,” Adam Steinbaugh, senior staff attorney at FIRE, said in a statement.He added: “Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of any free society, and the First Amendment strictly prohibits ICE agents from intimidating Americans simply for repeating information from a newspaper report.”
