The Peoria-area native who shot and killed Renee Good during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis earlier this year is named among federal officials in a civil lawsuit filed Thursday by Good’s family.
Jonathan E. Ross was identified as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot Renee Good, 37, three times during an altercation caught on video and widely circulated on social media. WCBU learned through an examination of school and court records that Ross has ties to Peoria. The 2001 Richwoods graduate became a law enforcement officer in 2007 and joined ICE in 2015.
The complaint names Ross among senior Trump administration officials including White House aide Stephen Miller, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Czar Thomas Homan, among others. It alleges a “conspiracy to interfere with civil rights,” specifically accusing the government of intentionally and unlawfully targeting ethnic communities in Minneapolis and protestors who opposed the administration’s immigration enforcement tactics…