""The scenes taking place on the streets of Minneapolis are beyond explanation," Luke Ganger said. The ICE actions are changing lives and changing the community, he said, adding that Good's killing was not due to "a bad day or a rough week or isolated incident.""
""I still don't know how to explain to my 4-year-old what these agents are doing," he noted. When he told his daughter that Good had been attacked by bad people, she told him there were no bad people. He has trouble believing that."
""The most important thing can do today is help this panel understand who Renee is and what a beautiful American we have lost," he added. Brent Ganger read from the eulogy he delivered for his sister, often choking back tears. She was "unapologetically hopeful," like a dandelion that pushes through a crack in concrete, he said. "Her children were and are her heart," he added, and she "made sure they felt safe, valued, and loved.""
A congressional forum convened by Rep. Robert Garcia and Sen. Richard Blumenthal featured people targeted by ICE and Border Patrol during the Trump administration's crackdown; no Republicans attended. Luke and Brent Ganger testified about their sister, Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent on January 7 while driving through a Minneapolis neighborhood where ICE was conducting operations. Good was a queer woman, a poet, a wife, and a mother of three. Luke described conditions on Minneapolis streets as beyond explanation and said ICE actions are changing lives and the community. Brent read a eulogy describing her as unapologetically hopeful and devoted to her children.
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