After Renee Nicole Good was shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a physician stepped forward to help her.

ICE agents stopped him.

Video from the scene shows a man identifying himself as a doctor asking a simple, lifesaving question:
“Can I check a pulse?”

An agent told him no.

“I’m a physician,” the man said.

“I don’t care,” an agent replied.

For more than 30 seconds after Renee was shot, no one rendered medical aid. A doctor was present. He was willing. He was blocked. Renee Nicole Good — a U.S. citizen, a mother of three — died at the scene.

This is not just a law‑enforcement failure.
It is a medical ethics emergency.

No armed agency has the right to prevent lifesaving care. Blocking a physician from treating a wounded person violates the most basic principles of medicine, emergency response, and human decency.

Silence from the medical establishment now would be unconscionable.

We are calling on:

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — which oversees emergency medical standards, civil rights in healthcare, and public health ethics — to immediately investigate and publicly condemn the obstruction of medical care.

The American Medical Association (AMA) — the nation’s leading voice for physicians — to issue an unequivocal statement that blocking a doctor from treating a gunshot victim is unacceptable and must never happen again.

This is not about politics. It is about whether doctors are allowed to do their jobs when lives are on the line.

If ICE agents can tell a physician “I don’t care” and stop lifesaving treatment with no consequences, then no patient — citizen or not — is safe.

Medicine demands action. Ethics demand accountability. Humanity demands better.

Sign this petition to demand that HHS and the AMA stand up now — for Renee Nicole Good, for the doctor who tried to help her, and for every future patient who might otherwise be left to die.

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