The family of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, filed two lawsuits on Thursday against the Trump administration, alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.
The lawsuits, brought by Good’s partner, Becca Good, and her brother, Brent Ganger, name the U.S. government, ICE agent Jonathon Ross, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, former Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, and Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski as defendants. The first lawsuit seeks damages under Minnesota law for assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The second alleges a civil rights conspiracy among the defendants.
Good was killed during *Operation Metro Surge*, a federal deportation crackdown in Minneapolis that deployed thousands of armed, masked ICE agents. Eyewitness cellphone footage captured Ross firing multiple shots into Good’s vehicle, striking her in the head, arm, and torso. Federal officials claimed at the time that Good had engaged in “an act of domestic terrorism,” a characterization disputed by the footage, which shows her telling Ross, “I’m not mad at you,” before attempting to drive away.
The lawsuits demand a jury trial and financial compensation for Good’s suffering and the severe psychological trauma inflicted on Becca Good, who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after witnessing the shooting. The family’s legal team stated that Good’s death was “the predictable result of a coordinated campaign” by senior Trump officials to target Minnesotans of Somali or Hispanic origin and suppress dissent .
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