Democrats across Massachusetts are joining the national debate over a deadly shooting involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and a woman as the agency was conducting an operation in the city.

In numerous, widely circulated videos, Renee Nicole Good, 37, was seen in her SUV as ICE agents attempted to get her out of the car. Videos show good accelerate her car, which those backing ICE say was in an attempt to hit and kill one of the federal agents while people in support of Good claim she was simply trying to get away. The tragic situation ended when an ICE agent fired several shots at Good in self-defense, killing her.

Gov. Maura Healey blasted the federal immigration agency following a press event at the State House Thursday, calling ICE and its tactics “dangerous” and “overly aggressive.”

“As we’ve ICE time and time again engages in tactics that are dangerous, overly-aggressive, are not making our communities safer. We don’t need to look further than yesterday’s horiffic events to see that,” Healey said when asked at a press event about her thoughts on the shooting.

“The way to prevent incidents like that from happening is for ICE to act in a way that’s appropriate, that is lawful. There is going to be an investigation, we don’t know all the facts. But I will say, the video is the video and everybody can see with their own eyes what transpired,” she said, going on to say the answer to stopping these incidents from happening is for “ICE to stop doing what they are doing and the way they are doing it.”

The governor also went after the White House on social media, posting to X Wednesday night that the Administration is fabricating how the Minneapolis shooting played out and that the ICE agent who fired the deadly shots was  not acting in self-defense.

“No matter how the Trump Administration spins this, we all saw it. Renee Good was a mother and an American citizen. My heart breaks for her family. ICE’s dangerous, aggressive tactics don’t make us safer. Just the opposite. This has to stop,” Healey said in her post.

But Healey is going a step further, demanding in a Thursday letter sent to executives of two private airlines, GlobalX Airlines and Eastern Air Express, that they stop chartering flights for ICE when the agency needs to transport detainees.

“On behalf of American taxpayers, I also find it incomprehensible that the Trump Administration is choosing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on private jets to obstruct people’s due process at a time when they are denying hunger benefits, cutting health care access, and raising costs on everyone through costly tariffs,” Healey wrote. “Flying these residents out of state—often within hours of arrest—is intentionally cruel and purposely obstructs the due process and legal representation they are entitled to. By contracting with ICE to execute these flights, you are profiting off these anti-American tactics and facilitating the obstruction of due process.”

The governor highlighted how Avelo Airlines, who previously chartered flights for ICE, recently cut ties with the federal agency. Healey’s letter also comes less than a month after she demanded ICE stop using Hanscom Field airport in Bedford for the flights.

“I also don’t want private companies, these airlines, profiting off of ICE’s abuses. Those companies need to get out of the business of working for an agency that time and time again shows that it’s full of people who are not trained, not competent, cruel and callous,” Healey said at the Thursday press conference.

Senate President Karen Spilka also jumped on the bandwagon against ICE, calling Good’s shooting “the direct result of the Trump Administration’s dangerous, inhumane and anti-American policies.”

“Americans deserve to feel safe in their communities. They also deserve honesty and accountability from the person they elect to the highest office in the country. This Administration has failed completely on both counts. To our neighbors in Minnesota: we share your grief and your demands for justice,” Spilka said.

Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Seth Moulton (MA-06) is also chiming in, highlighting the importance of a bill he introduced called the NOEM Act in relation to the Minneapolis shooting. The NOEM Act would allow those detained or arrested by ICE, including illegal immigrants, to sue the agents who brought them into custody.

“Todd Lyons attacked me for introducing the NOEM act and saying @ICEgov officials should be prosecuted when they violate the law. A woman is dead today because federal agents believe they are untouchable,” said Moulton in a Wednesday night post to X.

“He wasn’t in danger. He violated ICE policy. He should be prosecuted. And the @WhiteHouse is lying to cover up a woman’s murder. That’s the truth @JDVance doesn’t want asked,” Moulton said in another X post Thursday.

Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) says Good was trying to get away from the agents when she was fatally shot, accusing the White House of lying about how the situation unfolded.

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) is joining Minnesota Senator Tina Smith’s call for ICE to leave the state immediately in concern for “public safety.”

“Senator Smith is right. ICE must immediately withdraw from Minneapolis to prevent further escalation. I am horrified by eyewitness accounts of masked ICE agents shooting someone in the head and killing them,” Markey posted to X.

The situation in Minnesota has sparked numerous protests across Massachusetts, with activist groups sparking demonstrations in Boston, Waltham, and elsewhere.