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Robert Tait in Washington

‘Our family feels deep distress’: Renee Good’s brothers plead for Democrats’ help at hearing

Two men sit side by side, one with his arm around the other's shoulders and the second holding his brother's knee.
Brent and Luke Ganger, brothers of slain Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good, in Washington DC today. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Democrats on Capitol Hill offered apologies and promises of accountability on Tuesday amid often harrowing testimony from people who had experienced violent encounters with federal agents engaged in Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

With Republicans conspicuously absent, the forum of senators and representatives heard from Luke and Brent Ganger, the brothers of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who was shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis on 7 January as she tried to drive away from agents.

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