‘Unimaginable loss’: Renee Good family urges ‘empathy’ in call for justice

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".