RivCo Freeway Billboard Vandalized With Message Celebrating Fatal ICE Shooting: Report

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — A Southern California freeway billboard vandalized over the weekend with a message celebrating the ICE shooting of an unarmed mother is the latest in a series of inflammatory billboard vandalizations confronting Southland drivers.

The vandalized billboard is located in Moreno Valley, off I-215 at the Central Avenue and Watkins Drive Exit, and typically advertises Goodwin's Organic Foods and Drinks.

A passerby snapped a picture of the yellow block letters scrawled on black canvas covering the billboard, and shared it with KTLA. It read:

"WE SUPPORT ICE
THE SHOOTING WAS JUSTIFIED
FAFO RENEE GOOD."

Renee Good, 37, was killed Wednesday in Minneapolis after three Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounded her Honda Pilot SUV on a snowy street a few blocks from her home. Video taken by bystanders show 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.

The shooting triggered nationwide anti-ICE protests over the weekend as the anonymous vandals posted the billboard message celebrating Good's death.

According to a manager at Goodwin's, the sign has been removed.

"The sign was back to normal when I just drove by," Goodwin's Organic Foods and Drinks Manager Saul Gil told Patch. "It takes a while sometimes for the billboard company to remove graffiti, and this location is easy to reach because of the wall nearby."

The vandals have not yet been identified.

In November, a similar anti-indigenous Thanksgiving message was painted on an I-10 billboard belonging to the Yuhaaviatam of the San Manuel Nation. That billboard was vandalized with a message critical of Indigenous people in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. That billboard's message was also written on a black tarp in large capital yellow letters.

The area between I-10 in Colton and I-215, as well as the 91 and 60, is frequently targeted by similar billboard "smear campaigns," according to multiple Reddit reports.

The Riverside County Sheriff's Department has not yet responded to Patch's request for information on the vandalism investigation.