Renee Good’s family says Trump hasn’t contacted them after her death | Minnesota ICE shootings
The family of Renee Good, the mother and unarmed U.S. citizen killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis last month, said in an interview with NBC News that neither Donald Trump nor anyone in his administration has contacted them since her death.
“There’s a reason we hire our own detectives, to make sure the truth is transparent and accessible, to make sure this is actually taken seriously, and to make sure we know what happened,” Good’s brother, Brent Ganger, said. NBC News.
During the interview, Good’s family described the aftermath of the shooting, which sparked a whirlwind of false claims from the Trump administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem incorrectly portrayed the 37-year-old mother of three as a “domestic terrorist.”
“We’re the ones who knew Renee,” Good’s brother, Luke Ganger, said. “Nobody else knows Renee.”
“There’s a lot of ideas and stuff, but we’re the ones who know it and the other stuff isn’t going to change it,” he added. The family described Good as a kind person who loved raising her children.
The family told the news outlet that they have not yet watched video of the moment Good was killed by a federal immigration agent on Jan. 7.
“I can’t bring myself to do this,” Brent Ganger said.
In another interview CBS Evening NewsGood’s father, Tim Ganger, said he would switch places with his daughter and take the bullets instead.
“As his father, my first instinct was: I would step in front of him a thousand times to protect him,” he said.
Good’s family requested a private autopsy last month and determined that Good was shot three times: in the forearm, chest and head.
Along with the private autopsy, incident reports from the day of the shooting similarly included two “obvious gunshot wounds” on the right side of Good’s chest and “a possible gunshot wound with protruding tissue on the left side of the patient’s head.”
Despite the lack of support from the Trump administration, Good’s family received condolences from community members and others across the country who were saddened by his death.
“I felt that overwhelming peace where God said: ‘I got Renee. It’s okay. I will walk with your family through this process. You won’t be alone,'” Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, told NBC.
“We are consciously grateful to have Renee and to have had her in our lives for 37 years,” he added. “When you become grateful, your perspective changes.”
Just weeks after Good’s death, Alex Pretti became the second victim of a deadly shooting by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. The 37-year-old intensive care nurse’s family and friends also spoke about Pretti’s character, describing her as “happy” and someone who “represents us in the best way possible.”
Speaking to Pretti’s family New York Times he recalled his sons’ frustration with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
“He said, ‘Mom, they’re kidnapping the kids,'” Pretti’s father said. “‘Why would anyone do this? Why would people treat each other like this? It doesn’t make sense. There’s no need.'”
