Marking one month since Renee Good was fatally shot on a Minneapolis street by a federal agent, her wife is expressing gratitude for how the city is persevering in the midst of the White House’s immigration enforcement crackdown.
“Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other,” read a statement Becca Good released on Feb. 7 through her attorney, Antonio Romanucci.
“For that, I want to say thank you,” she wrote. “Thank you to this incredible community for showing up again and again — organizing food and rides, making sure our kids get to school, checking in on neighbors, and standing together in the cold.”
Renee Good, 37, was shot while at the wheel in her SUV on Jan. 7, stopped askew on Portland Avenue, as Jonathan Ross and other agents demanded that she move out of the way during an immigration enforcement action.
As she began to drive off, Ross was in front of the SUV and shot once through the windshield and twice more through the driver’s side window.
Two and a half weeks later, another Minneapolis resident, 37-year-old Alex Pretti, was killed on Nicollet Avenue by gunfire from federal agents as he witnessed agents carrying out immigration assignment.
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name, and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine. They are neighbors, friends, coworkers, classmates. And we must also know their names. Because this shouldn’t happen to anyone."
Becca Good said she saw the same in her wife, someone who “always showed up — as a volunteer, a teacher, a mom, a friend — always helping out, making things a little better for others. Seeing the world now celebrate the parts of her that I’ve always known — the kindness, the humor, the warmth — reminds me of her spirit."
