Renee Good’s family says Trump hasn’t contacted them after her death | Minnesota ICE shootings

The family of Renee Good, an unarmed U.S. citizen and mother who was killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis last month, said in an interview with NBC News that neither Donald Trump nor anyone in his administration has contacted them since her death.

“There’s a reason we hired our own investigators: to make sure the truth is transparent and available, to make sure this is really taken seriously and to make sure we know what happened,” Brent Ganger, Good’s brother, told NBC News.

During the interview, Good’s family spoke about the aftermath of the shooting, which sparked a whirlwind of false claims from the Trump administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem falsely described the 37-year-old mother of three as a “domestic terrorist.”

“We’re the ones who know Renee,” said Good’s brother, Luke Ganger. “No one else knows Renee.”

“There are a lot of opinions and it doesn’t matter, but we know it, and these other things are not going to change that,” he added. The family described Good as a gentle person who loved raising their children.

The family told the outlet they have yet to watch the videos of the moment Good was killed by a federal immigration agent on Jan. 7.

“I can’t bring myself to do this,” Brent Ganger said.

In another interview with CBS Evening News, Good’s father, Tim Ganger, said he would have traded places with his daughter and taken the bullets instead.

“As a father, my first instinct: I would trade a thousand times putting myself in front of her to protect her,” he said.

Good’s family requested a private autopsy last month, which determined that Good had been shot three times: in the forearm, chest and head.

Along with the private autopsy, incident reports from the day she was shot listed two “apparent gunshot wounds” to the right side of Good’s chest and a “possible gunshot wound with protruding tissue to the left side of the patient’s head.”

Despite the lack of support from the Trump administration, Good’s family received condolences from community members and others across the country mourning his death.

“I felt the overwhelming peace that God said, ‘I have Renee. It’s okay. I’m going to walk your family through this. You won’t be alone,'” Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, told NBC.

“We are very consciously grateful to have Renée and to have had her in our lives for 37 years,” she added. “It changes your perspective when you’re grateful.”

Just weeks after Good’s death, Alex Pretti became the second victim of a fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. Family and friends of the 37-year-old intensive care nurse also spoke of Pretti’s character, describing him as “happy” and as someone who “represents the best of us”.

Pretti’s parents, who spoke to The New York Times, recalled their son’s frustration with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

“He said, ‘Mom, they’re kidnapping kids,'” Pretti’s father said. “‘Why would anyone do that? Why would people treat each other like that? It just doesn’t make sense. There’s no reason to do it.'”