<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Renee Good’s family sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials Thursday, alleging wrongful death, conspiracy and other violations in the 37-year-old woman’s killing by an immigration officer during a federal crackdown in Minneapolis.</p><p>The two lawsuits were filed by Good’s partner, Becca Good, and Renee's brother Brent Ganger.</p><p>The Justice Department didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.</p><h3>Officer shot Good as she turned her car away from him</h3><p>Renee Good was fatally shot Jan. 7 as protests against immigration raids flared across the city. According to Becca Good, her partner stopped their car in a street to support neighbors during an immigration operation.</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-ice-immigration-renee-good-shooting-3f2a9e26ddac9455b931fecee5989d18" target="_blank" >Bystander video shows</a> Renee Good in the driver’s seat of a red SUV blocking part of the road and repeatedly honking her horn.</p><p>Two immigration officers get out of a truck, their faces covered, and one orders Good to get out of the car. She reverses briefly, then turns the steering wheel as the officer says again, “get out of the car.”</p><p>Almost simultaneously, Becca Good, standing in the street, shouts: “Drive, baby, drive!”</p><p>One officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and fires into the windshield. He lurches back as the car turns away from him. The officer, who is now very close to the open window on the driver’s side, fires two more times, fatally shooting Renee Good, according to <a class="Link" href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-minnesota-ice-shooting-protest-cad39aa94829e1e11468e3e345af2826" target="_blank" >an analysis of the videos</a> by The Associated Press and others.</p><p>Federal officials at the time said the officer <a class="Link" href="https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-crackdown-woman-shot-5158ce0838305b491c95db97b970cd03" target="_blank" >acted in self-defense</a> and that Good had engaged in <a class="Link" href="https://apnews.com/article/vance-minnesota-immigration-enforcement-06b23b428edcc8498362be4ac656f201" target="_blank" >“an act of domestic terrorism.”</a></p><h3>One lawsuit alleges wrongful death</h3><p>The lawsuit against the United States of America seeks damages for Good's wrongful death and “the immense suffering Renee endured in the final moments of her life and for the profound and permanent losses that her death has inflicted upon her family,” according to a news release by lawyers for Ganger and Good.</p><p>The lawsuit, which seeks a bench trial, also alleges “intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress” on Becca Good.</p><p>Becca and Renee Good, the mother of three children, were not legally married, according to a family lawyer, but referred to one another as wives. They had only recently relocated to Minneapolis from Kansas City, Missouri.</p><h3>Another lawsuit alleges conspiracy to conceal evidence</h3><p>The other lawsuit alleges a conspiracy to interfere with civil rights and seeks a jury trial. It says the federal government moved to hide the evidence of what actually happened on Jan. 7.</p><p>The lawsuit says the shots fired by Jonathan Ross, the immigration officer who killed Good, “were the predictable and intended product of the operation.”</p><p>It describes a “carefully planned, coordinated effort between senior federal officials and private actors to make two ethnic communities — Minnesotans of Somali and Hispanic descent and origin — the object of aggression and abduction, and to silence by intimidation, arrest and violence the neighbors and allies of those targeted communities who observed, documented and warned of that campaign.”</p><p>The lawsuit names Ross as a defendant, as well as: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller; former Homeland Security head Kristi Noem; Corey Lewandowski, a campaign manager for President Donald Trump who also served as one of Noem's advisers; White House border czar Tom Homan; former acting director of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons; former U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino; and 10 unnamed federal agents.</p><h3>Good’s partner acknowledges other lives lost in immigration crackdown</h3><p>The killing of Good and <a class="Link" href="https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-ice-fbi-alex-pretti-immigration-65a963816603a08bbc9db83961dd173f" target="_blank" >another U.S. citizen, Alex Pretti</a>, in Minneapolis just weeks later sparked outrage across the country and <a class="Link" href="https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-shootings-kristi-noem-ice-congress-add9ac7b90f5677621009e8a603c0141" target="_blank" >calls to rein in</a> immigration enforcement. At least 10 people <a class="Link" href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-deaths-eight-houston-35b6d6f9b9715edd064009e195547b2b" target="_blank" >have died</a> in encounters with immigration officers during President Donald Trump’s second term.</p><p>In social media accounts, Renee Good described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom.” On Pinterest, a profile picture shows her smiling and holding a young child, alongside posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating.</p><p>In an interview shortly after her death, Renee Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, told The Associated Press: “She had this way of making you feel special and loved that I didn’t even understand that until we lost her.”</p><p>Good's partner noted the broader loss to communities nationwide.</p><p>“As we have tried to navigate our own massive loss, I am also devastated by how many other lives have been destroyed in this darkest of times,” Becca Good said in the news release Thursday. “So many other families are dealing with the loss of their loved ones; to everyone who has had to witness it — the pain of this moment extends far beyond our family. What happened to us should never happen to any family.”</p>
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