Nothing has changed since the death of Renee Nicole Good, her brothers lament

(Washington) The brothers of an American woman killed in early January by federal immigration police (ICE) in Minneapolis deplored Tuesday the lack of change, since the death of their sister, in the harsh methods used by these agents responsible for applying Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policy.

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother, was shot and killed in her car on January 7 by an ICE agent, on the sidelines of the protest movement against the raids carried out by these police officers for several weeks in the large city in the north of the United States.

“In recent weeks, our family had found some comfort in thinking that Nee’s death might perhaps bring change to our country, but that was not the case,” said one of Renee Nicole Good’s brothers, Luke Ganger, during a hearing before the US Congress.

“The completely surreal events taking place in the streets of Minneapolis are inexplicable,” he added, referring to the raids carried out in this city, where thousands of federal agents operating with masked faces were deployed to arrest illegal foreign nationals.

“These confrontations with federal agents are changing the community and forever changing many lives, including ours,” he continued.

Several days after the death of Renee Nicole Good, another American protester of the same age, Alex Pretti, was shot ten times in Minneapolis by border police agents (CPB), a sequence which sparked a wave of emotion in the United States and triggered a standoff between local authorities and those in power in Washington.

“It would be so easy to fall into the false belief that overcoming the difficulties of the world necessarily calls for grandiose and heroic acts,” another brother, Brent Ganger, also testified before the elected officials.

But, he concluded, “as (author JRR) Tolkien wrote, it is the small, everyday actions of ordinary people that push back the darkness, small acts of kindness and love.”