Family of Renee Good files wrongful death lawsuit over ICE shooting

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The family of Renee Good, the mother shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minnesota this year, has filed two federal lawsuits alleging wrongful death.

Good, 37, was fatally shot on January 7 on Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, after a confrontation with ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who opened fire on her as she sat behind the wheel of her SUV, apparently attempting to leave the scene of their argument.

“Renee’s death was not an accident,” the law firm representing Good’s family, Romanucci and Blandin, said in a statement. “It was the predictable result of a coordinated campaign by senior officials in this administration to target Minnesotans of Somali or Hispanic origin and silence anyone who dared to raise their voice in protest.”

Attacking the federal immigration crackdown in which the agent concerned was deployed, they said: “Operation Metro Surge was built on exaggerated fraud accusations that the White House embraced as a pretext for thousands of masked, unidentified federal agents to rove neighborhoods and stop people based on how they looked.

“Administration officials told agents to force confrontations with observers like Renee and led agents to believe they would face no consequences for using force.”

Good’s death was met with a huge public outcry, which only grew louder when another citizen, Alex Pretti, was also killed by federal agents in the same city later that month.

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