Renee Good’s family sues Trump officials over ICE killing: ‘They took a mother away from her children’

Becca Good bought the shoes, the backpack, the notebooks, and the pencil case. In August, she prepared their son for first grade. Then she went to back-to-school night alone.Renee Good had never missed those moments.Now Halloween is approaching, their 6-year-old’s favorite holiday, and Becca will take him trick-or-treating without the woman who should have been beside her.“He is becoming this amazing little man, and that’s all Renee ever wanted to see,” Becca Good said Thursday. “And watching him grow into that person without her beside me is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”At the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Good joined Renee’s relatives and their attorneys to announce two federal lawsuits over her killing. As Becca spoke, Renee’s mother, Donna Ganger, placed a hand on her arm. These were Becca’s first public remarks since the shooting, following a written statement in January.One complaint, against the United States, alleges that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross shot the 37-year-old mother of three without justification as she tried to drive away on January 7, and that agents failed to provide medical assistance.The second, a 149-page complaint against Ross and other individuals, alleges senior officials directed a discriminatory campaign against Minnesota’s Somali and Hispanic communities and sought to intimidate neighbors who documented it.Becca Good and Renee’s brother, Brent Ganger, the court-appointed trustee for her children, parents, and siblings, brought both cases.“We intend to vigorously defend these baseless civil lawsuits,” White House spokesperson Lauren Bis said in a statement reported by NPR.Related: Renee Good's family reveals she randomly encountered ICE and stopped to observeThe life behind the lawsuitsRenee Good loved poetry, film, and animals. According to the complaints, she was preparing to pursue a master’s degree in English and had applied to become a su