Renee Good’s Mother Reveals She Voted for Trump, Blasts ICE: ‘This Is Madness’

Donna Ganger, the mother of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in January, revealed that she voted for President Donald Trump before blasting the agency responsible for her daughter’s death: “This is madness.”

The 37-year-old Good, not a target of ICE but rather an activist partially blocking a roadway in Minneapolis, was shot four times by Jonathan Ross, who has since transferred states and resumed his duties.

While Trump initially claimed, falsely, that Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer,” he then learned that her father was, in the president’s words, a “tremendous Trump fan.”

Only after receiving this new information did Trump admit he “felt terribly” about the shooting, adding, “I understand both sides of it.”

Ganger’s comments came as she was speaking Tuesday on Capitol Hill at a forum on deadly shootings by federal immigration agents hosted by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA).

According to a recent CNN analysis, at least 21 people have been shot by ICE and Border Protection personnel during the second Trump administration thus far.

“It’s torture that as her mom and as her family, we could not protect Renee,” the mother testified, clearly emotional. “But no one can protect against others who are determined to disregard our country’s constitutional rules and values.”

“Our family is a very American blend,” Ganger continued. “We vote differently, but we love each other deeply. I’m a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States — innocents like our family and the others here — against terrorists, certainly not to accuse those here of being terrorists and take precious lives.”

“This is madness,” she concluded.

Also present at the forum were Rachel Reyes, the mother of Ruben Ray Martinez, Stella Carlson, who recorded the killing of Alex Pretti, and Ronaldo and Lorenzo Salgado, both sons of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Watch above on C-SPAN.

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