On the morning of January 7, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The fallout has rippled across the US, sparking protests in major cities and locally here in Spokane.
In the moments before her death, Good, a white queer woman and mother of three, had been driving an SUV down a residential Minneapolis street, where federal agents were swarming for an immigration operation and neighbors were protesting in response.
Graphic videos of the incident show Good’s vehicle blocking the vehicle of an agent behind her. Two masked men then approached her driver side window, demanding she “get out of the fucking car.” Eyewitnesses reported that the men were also telling her to move her car, giving conflicting instructions to Good. In the videos, Good can be seen pulling away from the agents slowly, turning the wheel to avoid hitting a third agent who was approaching her car…