{"id":226337,"date":"2026-10-02T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/family-of-renee-good-sues-ice-agent-who-shot-her-and-top-trump-officials-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:21:19","slug":"family-of-renee-good-sues-ice-agent-who-shot-her-and-top-trump-officials-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/family-of-renee-good-sues-ice-agent-who-shot-her-and-top-trump-officials-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Renee Good sues ICE agent who shot her and top Trump officials – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wife and brother of Minneapolis woman killed in immigration crackdown allege wrongful death
The family of Renee Good, the woman killed by immigration agents in January in Minneapolis<\/a>, filed two federal lawsuits against the agent who shot her and several top officials in the Trump administration<\/a> on Thursday.
In the lawsuits, Good\u2019s partner, Becca Good, and her brother, Brent Ganger, alleged wrongful death and other violations of federal law, according to a press release<\/a> issued by their lawyers.
Good was a US citizen and mother of three who, on 7 January, joined her wife in protesting against the deployment of thousands of ICE agents in their city as part of the Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation policy.
The 37-year-old woman was shot and killed in her car by an agent who claimed he acted in self-defense, and the Department of Homeland Security claimed that she had engaged in \u201can act of domestic terrorism\u201d. Multiple video clips of the encounter, however, show that Good was steering her vehicle away from the agent as she tried to drive away.
Her death and that of Alex Pretti, an American nurse who was also shot and killed by an immigration agent during Minneapolis<\/a> protests two weeks later, sparked outrage and a wave of anger across the country.
Shortly after Good\u2019s killing, Todd Blanche, then the deputy US attorney general, said he saw no grounds for opening a civil rights investigation. Days later, the justice department opened an investigation into the relationship between Becca Good, the deceased\u2019s partner, and protest groups. At least 10 prosecutors resigned following the fatal shootings.
Now these lawsuits have become some of the first major civil litigation actions filed against Trump\u2019s deportation campaign in Minnesota<\/a>.
In one of them, the attorneys for Good\u2019s wife and brother allege wrongful death and seek to recover \u2013 receive damages \u2013 for the \u201cimmense 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\u201d.
\u201cThe complaint also seeks to recover for Becca Good, who was standing feet from the couple\u2019s vehicle when Ross fired three rounds into it, and she watched her partner die,\u201d the complaint says.
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\u201cPeaceful assembly, speech and even dissent are protected rights. However, the government has distorted the exercise of these rights as violence against our republic and acted with extreme and unconstitutional force, causing egregious harm. Many of these illegal uses of force resulted in death \u2013 including the death of an American mother of three, Renee Good \u2026 Today\u2019s legal actions demand accountability for countless violations of the law, the constitution and the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS) own rules governing the use of force,\u201d the lawsuit says.
The other lawsuit alleges a conspiracy to interfere with civil rights by senior federal officials and federal immigration enforcement agents, and names Jonathan Ross, the immigration officer who shot Good, the former homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, the White House deputy chief of staff and architect of hardline US immigration policies, Stephen Miller, and former US border patrol officer Gregory Bovino, among others, for their \u201croles in Renee Good\u2019s death\u201d.
Backlash against Trump\u2019s anti-immigration campaign following the deaths in January led the president to withdraw agents from Minnesota, and there has been no other deployment of that kind to a major US city since then. However, investigations such as the one by the Guardian are showing that ICE is arresting more people than ever<\/a>, while the administration shifted its tactics from \u201csiege\u201d to \u201csoft feet\u201d.<\/p>\n

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