The family of Renee Good, the woman fatally shot on Jan. 7 by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, has hired the same law firm that won a record court settlement five years ago for the family of George Floyd.
A staff member with Romanucci and Blandin in Chicago told the Minnesota Star Tribune on Jan. 14 that the firm is representing Good’s family, and attorney Antonio Romanucci is on his way to Minneapolis from Chicago this morning.
Romanucci teamed with civil rights attorney Ben Crump and won a $27 million payout in 2021 from the city of Minneapolis to settle a wrongful death lawsuit in connection with Floyd’s death in May 2020 while pinned to the pavement by three police officers as a fourth stood guard. Derek Chauvin and the others were fired and sentenced to prison.
In 2022, Romanucci had a hand in the city of Brooklyn Center paying $3.25 million to the family of Daunte Wright, the Black man who was killed by police during a traffic stop in 2021. The officer, Kimberly Potter, was convicted and served prison time.
Within hours of Good’s death, Romanucci’s firm issued a statement contending that “unless this woman was a wanted criminal sought by agents for deportation, this confrontation and loss of life is utterly senseless.”
The statement went on to say that Good’s death “is certainly tragic, traumatizing to her loved ones and neighbors, and distressing to decent people across the country. But her death is even more than that. It is irrefutable evidence of the unnecessary aggression and chaos in American streets caused this administration’s claimed efforts to deport hardened criminals.”
Jeff Day of the Minnesota Star Tribune contributed to this report.
