Renee Good's Family Is Suing The ICE Agent Who Killed Her

The family of Renee Good, the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis in a horrifying viral video, has filed two lawsuits over her death . One of the suits is against Jonathan Ross, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who pulled the trigger, but also named in the second suit are several members of the Trump administration including former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, and Stephen Miller, one of President Donald Trump's closest advisers.

The surge of ICE agents were deployed to Minneapolis in January, shortly after a conservative influencer posted a video alleging widespread fraud among Somali-run daycares, ginning up MAGA outrage. Immigration officials blanketed the city and the surrounding area, sending 2,000 agents on January 6 . The very next day, Ross shot Good while she was behind the wheel of her car. In videos that spread across the internet , Ross is seen standing in front of Good's car telling her she needs to leave the area, but before she can, he shoots her multiple times as the car moves forward. The suit against Ross alleges he put himself in danger by standing in front of her car.

In the wake of the incident, meanwhile, the Trump administration immediately labeled the shooting as self-defense, egregiously claiming that Good had attempted to run Ross over with her car, one of many instances of the administration claiming someone had "weaponized" a vehicle.

The suit alleges that the Trump administration sending ICE agents to Minnesota was unconstitutional because they were using race to target immigrants. "She was killed on a public street, while doing what thousands of her neighbors were doing that winter: watching masked, armed men terrorizing her community and refusing to look away," it says .

Minneapolis quickly descended into chaos caused by federal immigration agents. They were openly targeting anyone who wasn't white and also people like Good, who were observing ICE operations and trying to keep their city safe. ICE agents dragged people from their cars, arrested people trying to pick up their children from school, and even pulled over off-duty cops for the crime of not being white. Immigrants went into hiding, causing a humanitarian crisis throughout the state. The second lawsuit brought by Good's family names the United States government and accuses it wrongful death, negligence, and more .

A a few weeks after the death of Good, ICE agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, another US citizen in Minneapolis. Again, the federal government attempted to smear him as the aggressor as well. The Department of Justice civil rights division declined to investigate the two shootings , essentially shrugging their shoulders at the deaths of two US citizens at the hands of immigration agents. Other ICE agents who were part of Operation Metro Surge have been charged, however, including Christian Castro, who is now facing both state and federal charges for shooting a Venezuelan national and lying about the incident. There's also ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., who was charged by the state for pointing his gun at random motorists and spent a month as a fugitive before finally surrendering in Minnesota.

Noem and Bovino would both be eventually fired by the Trump administration, for reasons that are still unclear, but likely to get them out of the public eye. And eventually ICE pulled back from a visible operation in Minneapolis, settling into a quieter but no less effectively brutal style of immigration enforcement. Ross was quietly moved to another state to keep on working for the federal government. This lawsuit is certain to bring him back under public scrutiny all over again.