{"id":199237,"date":"2026-02-04T22:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/renee-goods-brothers-and-a-woman-shot-five-times-by-cbp-decry-dhs-tactics-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:15:01","slug":"renee-goods-brothers-and-a-woman-shot-five-times-by-cbp-decry-dhs-tactics-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/renee-goods-brothers-and-a-woman-shot-five-times-by-cbp-decry-dhs-tactics-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Renee Good's brothers and a woman shot five times by CBP decry DHS' tactics – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two brothers of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent<\/a> in her car last month in Minneapolis, gave emotional testimony Tuesday in Washington about the death of their sister and its impact on the family.
Good\u2019s death on Jan. 7 resulted in an escalation of anger, opposition and protests against the administration\u2019s immigration enforcement policies and was followed weeks later by the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti<\/a> by Customs and Border Protection officers on Jan. 24. Their killings have led lawmakers to call for reform and accountability in the Department of Homeland Security,<\/a> as well as for the resignation of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a>.
\u201cThe deep distress our family feels because of Nee\u2019s loss in such a violent and unnecessary way is complicated by feelings of disbelief, distress and desperation for change,\u201d Luke Ganger testified Tuesday at a public forum held by Democrats to discuss violent tactics and use of force by DHS.
Others who spoke at the event included Marimar Martinez<\/a>, who was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, Aliya Rahman, a Minneapolis resident<\/a> who said she was dragged out of her car by immigration agents, and Martin Daniel Rascon, a U.S. citizen whose car was fired on<\/a> by agents in San Bernardino, California.
The public forum was held by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Members of the Department of Homeland Security were not expected to testify Tuesday. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the forum or agents\u2019 encounters with Good and others.
\u201cThe completely surreal scenes taking place on the streets of Minneapolis are beyond explanation,\u201d Luke Ganger said. \u201cThis is not just a bad day or a rough week or isolated incidents, these encounters with federal agents are changing the community and changing many lives, including ours, forever.\u201d
Luke Ganger put his arm on the back of his brother, Brent Ganger, as he prepared to read from the eulogy he had recently given for his sister.
\u201cRenee had a way of showing up in the world that made you believe things were going to be OK, not because she ignored the hardship, but because she chose optimism anyway,\u201d Brent Ganger said. \u201cShe had a way of making you feel understood, even when you didn\u2019t have the words yet. She didn\u2019t just listen. She saw you.\u201d
Ganger said that as a mother, \u201cRenee poured herself into love, the kind of love that shows up every day, that sacrifices quietly, that cheers loudly, that believes deeply her children were and are her heart.\u201d
After the shooting, Noem said Good was a domestic terrorist<\/a> and, without providing evidence, that she \u201cweaponized\u201d her vehicle against law enforcement. Noem also added that the officer who fired the fatal shots, Jonathan Ross, acted in self-defense. DHS said the officer sustained injuries.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin also accused Good of not complying with officers\u2019 commands, saying that leads to \u201cdangerous, and in this case deadly, consequences.\u201d What happened, she said, was \u201centirely preventable.\u201d
Garcia described DHS and its agencies as \u201ccompletely out of control\u201d and said \u201cCongress has a responsibility to step in when constitutional rights are being violated.\u201d
He said Democrats had tracked, reviewed and vetted more than 470 incidents in its immigration enforcement dashboard and that 186 of them included \u201cproblematic uses of force by agents.\u201d
\u201cThese are not isolated mistakes. They are a clear pattern, and we know that\u2019s a tip of the iceberg,\u201d Garcia said.
Blumenthal said Good and Pretti should have had the chance to appear at the event in person, but \u201cthey were murdered by their own government. They were killed in cold blood.\u201d
\u201cThe top ranks of DHS are more than complicit. They are the driving force behind this brutality, and they should be held accountable,\u201d he said.
The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights probe into Pretti\u2019s death. Last week, DHS removed Border Patrol\u2019s Gregory Bovino<\/a>, who was present at several violent encounters with protesters in Minneapolis and Chicago, from his role as commander, returning him to his post at El Centro, California. Border czar Tom Homan was dispatched to Minneapolis and said on Thursday that federal agents<\/a> would plan for an eventual drawdown of their presence there, a statement contradicted by President Donald Trump<\/a> shortly thereafter.
Marimar Martinez, who was shot five times in Chicago, said agents rushed medical staff to dress her wounds, so that blood was soaking through her bandages when officers took her from the hospital after less than three hours. She said she overheard agents discussing whether a jail would accept her with her wounds bleeding and she had to plead to be taken to a second hospital for proper medical care.
Martinez was accused of using her car to assault and impede federal law enforcement before the charges against her were dismissed in November. <\/a>
She testified that she had been on her way to deliver some clothes she\u2019d collected from her home to a church, when she spotted immigration enforcement vehicles and tried to warn friends and neighbors of their presence by honking her horn and shouting \u201cLa Migra.\u201d
Martinez said the Border Patrol agent swerved twice into her lane and that, after she stopped her car, \u201cit seemed time stopped.\u201d Initially she thought the sensations in her arms and legs were from being hit by pepper balls. She tried to continue driving, but heard her back passenger window shatter and felt \u201cbullets continue to pierce my body.\u201d
\u201cI was losing this battle. I saw my life flash before me and slowly began to think, \u2018This is the end of me,\u2019\u201d she told the panel.
The charges against her were dropped after federal prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss their own case. Martinez\u2019s case has been one of the most high-profile examples of civilians being accused by federal authorities of ramming into a vehicle driven by immigration agents.
When previously asked about her case, DHS referred questions about charges in the case to the Justice Department, which did not respond.
Prosecutors said Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Martinez in self-defense after she and another person allegedly rammed their cars into a federal vehicle on Oct. 4. Martinez\u2019s legal team had argued that it was federal agents who rammed her car with their vehicle and that the shooting was unjustified and an excessive use of force.
During her testimony Tuesday, Martinez, a Montessori schoolteacher, repeatedly said Exum\u2019s name, referring to him as her \u201cattempted executioner.\u201d She was not trying to dox him, she said, but to expose him and a \u201cpattern of misleading the public\u201d by the administration.
She said that during the court hearing Exum attempted to explain \u201cwhy he took his vehicle that I allegedly rammed out of the secure FBI evidence garage and drove it back to Maine where the Border Patrol on-site mechanic was ordered to buff out the damages of the vehicle.\u201d Watching him testify, she said, \u201cmade me sick to my stomach\u201d and destroyed her reverence for law enforcement.
\u201cThe government told the people they were targeting the worst of the worst,\u201d she said, \u201cbut their actions demonstrated otherwise,\u201d she said.
Daniella Silva is a national reporter for NBC News, focusing on immigration and education.
Suzanne Gamboa is a national reporter for NBC News.
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