A lawsuit has been filed accusing Trump officials of recklessness and civil rights violations in the Minneapolis shooting of Renee Goode.
Published October 1, 2026
The family of Renee Good, one of two Americans shot and killed by federal immigration agents in Minnesota, is suing the government, saying she was killed during a large-scale immigrant deportation operation in January.
The lawsuits, filed Thursday by Goode’s partner Becca Goode and Renee’s brother Brent Ganger, allege that officials in President Donald Trump’s administration were reckless and violated the civil rights of Goode and the people of Minneapolis. The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and monetary damages.
The lawsuit is the first major civil lawsuit brought against the Trump administration over Operation Metro Surge, an unprecedented deportation crackdown in Minneapolis last winter.
The first lawsuit seeks damages for Goode’s wrongful death on grounds of assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress under Minnesota law.
The second lawsuit alleges a civil rights conspiracy among a number of defendants, including immigration judge and gunman Jonathon Ross, who is named along with senior Trump administration officials, including Deputy Secretary of Policy Stephen Miller, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, former Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, and Trump’s longtime campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski.
Good, a mother of three, was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in her car in south Minneapolis as she and her wife participated in the city’s daily demonstration against masked and armed federal agents sent to the city to arrest immigrants for deportation.
Cellphone footage taken by a witness captured the moment Officer Ross fired into the windshield, striking Good in the head, arm and torso, killing him.
Federal officials at the time said the officers acted in self-defense and that Goode had engaged in “an act of domestic terrorism.”
In a statement published on Truth Social at the time, President Trump defended the deadly ICE shootings, saying these “incidents” occur because “the radical left routinely threatens, assaults, and targets our nation’s law enforcement officers and ICE agents.”
Days after the shooting, then-Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche and other U.S. Justice Department officials blocked federal prosecutors from pursuing criminal and civil rights cases against the agents involved in her murder, and at least six prosecutors resigned in protest.
The state of Minnesota sued the Trump administration in March seeking access to evidence collected at the scene of the shooting, but the investigation stalled after the Justice Department stopped routine cooperation and sharing of evidence with Minneapolis police.
None of the investigators involved in Good’s murder have been charged.
