Relatives pay tribute to ‘extraordinary mother’ and hope killing by ICE agent leads to meaningful change
Renee Good’s extended family said on Monday it wanted justice and accountability for her death at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, but urged people stirred to outrage by the shooting of the 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three to root their conversations in “humanity, empathy, and care for the family most affected”.
In a statement and in interviews with the Guardian, the family members – most of them relatives of Good’s late husband Timmy Macklin Jr, the father of her youngest son – paid tribute to Good, her children, and to Macklin, and said they hoped the “unimaginable loss” the family had suffered would lead to meaningful change and “fewer families [who] have to endure this kind of pain”.
It was the first time anyone in the family other than Good’s widow Becca had issued a public statement. Macklin’s parents and siblings, in consultation with Good’s mother Donna, described Good as “an extraordinary mother, devoted, fiercely loving, and always putting her children at the center of the world. She was full of heart and never defined by malice.”
The statement made no specific mention of ICE, the Trump administration’s attempts to tar Good as a domestic terrorist, the video footage of her final moments that New York’s mayor Zohran Mamdani and others have characterized as evidence of “murder”, or the investigation into her death that the FBI is leading without input from Minnesota law enforcement.
