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Renée Good's Mom Wanted Trump to Protect Her Family. Her Daughter Was Killed by ICE.

Donna Ganger's heartbreaking testimony to a Senate committee offers a vital insight into the vicious politics of authoritarianism.

Eric Boehm | 9.25.2026 1:01 PM

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The killing of Renée Good, who was gunned down on a Minneapolis street in January by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, was a tragedy.

The fact that Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed her, has not faced any accountability for his actions—firing his gun wildly through the window of Good's vehicle as she tried to flee a confrontation that ICE officers had initiated and escalated—remains shameful.

This week, that story gained a new, heartbreaking angle when Good's mother, Donna Ganger, testified before a Senate committee that is investigating fatal shootings by ICE agents.

"My daughter should still be alive," Ganger said, holding back tears. More than nine months after Good was killed, Ganger said the family is still struggling with "the total insanity of it all."

Then, Ganger offered a detail that manages to both reinforce and complicate the........

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