Renée Good’s wife demands feds return SUV for state investigation
Renee Nicole Good. (GoFundMe)
The wife of Renée Good is demanding the return of the SUV in which she was killed on 7 January by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, accusing the federal government of blocking efforts to conduct a state investigation over her death.
Becca Good filed a motion on Friday (24 April) seeking access to the vehicle, her 2014 Honda Pilot, which has remained sealed and unexamined since the January shooting during an immigration protest in Minneapolis. The Department of Justice decided against investigating the incident earlier this year.
Becca Good’s motion states that since that decision, the federal government has repeatedly ignored requests from the family to turn over evidence, including the SUV. Both the Good family and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension have been blocked from access.
Good’s family attorney, Antonio Romanucci, said in a statement to MPR News on 27 April: “The federal government cannot at once declare that it will not investigate the shooting death of Renee Good by a federal agent and at the same time withhold key evidence from those seeking the truth.”
“Very likely, there are either some bullet fragments or bullets themselves that are inside the vehicle. There may be shell casings that wound up inside the vehicle. There may be other pieces of evidence inside that vehicle… Pursuing a civil rights investigation would contradict the president’s false claims that Renée ‘violently, willfully and viciously’ ran over the ICE officer who killed her,” Romanucci continued.
Renée Good was shot by Jonathan Ross as she attempted to drive away, with officials claiming the officer acted in self-defence.
But video footage reportedly shows her turning away before accelerating down the street and crashing into a parked car.
Her final words, recorded on Ross’s phone, were: “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you.”
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