Mother who voted ICE would protect Americans sues ICE for killing her daughter

…(cont) Renee Good was shot January 7. Her family's lawsuit was filed October 1. That's nine months between the thing happening and the thing being answered for, which is the only number in this whole stack of paper I'm asking you to hold onto.

Her mother is in the record too. Donna Ganger told The Hill on September 23 that she voted for President Trump, that she believed federal immigration officers were there to protect Americans, and that what happened instead was torture — her word — because as a mother, as a family, they could not protect her daughter. I read that quote a few times. I don't have anything to add to it.

The district attorney's race runs on roughly the same clock. One candidate is a former public defender, the other a former federal prosecutor, and both are telling voters they'll make the right call on charging the agents who killed Pretti and Good. Nobody has made the call yet. The fifteen people charged with conspiracy, the ones the surveillance program was built to watch, are still working through federal court, in the same case where the documents surfaced.

Hang on — there's a page here I dog-eared, and I want to get this right before I close the notebook. The documents that named the fifteen also named what the program was watching: activists, labor unions, community groups, and a bicycle repair collective. I fix my own fan belt when I absolutely have to, badly, with the hood up in the driveway and the dog supervising from the porch, and nobody has ever opened a file on me for it. Did the people who fix bicycles for a living make that list too?