WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed in her car by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, says the couple had stopped to support their neighbors on the day of the shooting and described the mother of three as leaving a legacy of kindness.
“We had whistles. They had guns,” Becca Good said in a written statement Friday that was provided to Minnesota Public Radio.
The statement was her first public comment about the death of Renee Good, 37, who was killed Wednesday after three Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounded her Honda Pilot SUV on a snowy street a few blocks from the couple’s home. Video taken by bystanders show an officer approaching the SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
Trump administration officials have painted Renee Good as a domestic terrorist who tried to run over an officer with her vehicle. State and local officials in Minneapolis, as well as protesters, have rejected that characterization.
The authority to stop this was an uncorrupted government that cared to stop it, which we haven’t had in a while. Hell, we’ve gone so far past it that they’re actively encouraging it now. While this symptom is relatively new, the disease has been progressing for decades. Once the government stopped keeping the police in line, and the people stopped caring to fix the government to get that back on track, it was inevitable that we’d need to revolt to bring things back. Now the question is whether or not that will be enough. I hope it is.