Oct. 1 (UPI) — The family of Renee Good on Thursday filed lawsuits against the federal government and several federal officials for her shooting death by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
Good, a mother of three, was shot in the front seat of her Honda Pilot on a residential street. Officials alleged she tried to ram the agent with the car and that he was acting in self-defense.
“The day of accountability has arrived for the United States’ rogue agencies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, and the unjustified and excessive use of force — let alone deadly force — used on people exercising their rights under the Constitution’s Bill of Rights,” the Good family’s legal team said in a statement.
Two complaints were filed. The first is under the Federal Tort Claims Act for wrongful death against the U.S. government. It alleges that federal law enforcement officers used excessive force against her.
The second complaint was filed against White House senior advisor Stephen Miller, former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Border Czar Tom Homan and ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who allegedly fired the fatal shots. Other federal agents were also included in the suit.
The complaint alleges that officials engaged in a “carefully planned, coordinated effort between senior federal officials and private actors to make two ethnic communities in Minnesota — Minnesotans of Somali and Hispanic descent and origin — the object of aggression and abduction.”
According to the complaint, Ross fired through Good’s windshield and open driver-side window as her vehicle was turning away from him. The filing states that Ross stepped toward the car, fired a round through the windshield, and then fired twice more through her open window as the vehicle completed a turn.
“The operation was in essence the domestic deployment of a paramilitary force of three to four thousand masked, armed, camouflaged agents, outfitted in military tactical gear including camouflage, helmets, gas masks and military-grade weapons, wielding instruments of war to carry out domestic shock-and-awe tactics to intimidate the populace,” the complaint says.
The first complaint cites the Hennepin County medical examiner who ruled Good’s death a homicide following a private autopsy.
“Each of Ross’s three shots was fired in violation” of DHS mandatory policy, which allows agents to use force only when “no reasonably effective, safe, and feasible alternative appears to exist,” the lawyers for Good’s partner, Becca Good, wrote, referencing Ross.
The lawsuit alleged Ross also shouted obscenities at Renee Good while she pulled forward, yelling “f‑‑‑ing b‑‑‑‑.”
Bystander video appeared to show Good’s neighbor, a doctor, being told to step back after he offered medical care for her twice.
Her death, and another shooting involving the killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti a week later, ignited waves of intense protests across the state and country.

