Family of Renee Good sues ICE agent who shot her and top Trump officials
Becca Good and Brent Ganger have filed two federal lawsuits over the January killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, naming ICE agent Jonathan Ross and, in a conspiracy claim, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino.
The wife and brother of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman killed in an immigration crackdown, have filed two federal lawsuits alleging wrongful death and a conspiracy to interfere with civil rights, according to The Guardian.
The suits, filed by Becca Good and Brent Ganger through their lawyers, name the ICE agent who shot her — Jonathan Ross — and, in a separate civil-rights-conspiracy claim, former homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and former US border patrol officer Gregory Bovino, among others.
Good, 37, a US citizen and mother of three, was shot dead on 7 January in her car in Minneapolis while she and her wife were protesting the deployment of thousands of ICE agents under the Trump administration’s mass deportation policy. Ross claimed self-defence; the Department of Homeland Security claimed she had engaged in “an act of domestic terrorism”. Video clips, the complaint says, show her steering away from the agent as she tried to drive off.
Becca Good was standing feet from the couple’s vehicle when Ross fired three rounds into it and watched her partner die, the complaint says.
“Peaceful assembly, speech and even dissent are protected rights,” the lawsuit states, adding that the government “acted with extreme and unconstitutional force, causing egregious harm”.
The attorneys seek damages for “the immense suffering Renee endured in the final moments of her life and for the profound and permanent losses that her death has inflicted upon her family”.
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