BAY COUNTY, MI – A Bay County man has started a GoFundMe campaign for the ICE officer who killed Renee Nicole Good last week in Minnesota.
Clyde Emmons of Mount Forest Township, started the donation campaign for ICE officer Jonathan Ross on Jan. 9 with a goal of $800,000. As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, the campaign has raised more than $703,500 for the officer through nearly 15,000 donations.
The largest donations include two $10,000 gifts and two $5,000 contributions.
Emmons declined an interview request from MLive/The Bay City Times, but said he began the campaign because he saw the videos of the incident in which Ross shot and killed Good while she was behind the wheel of a vehicle and believed, as U.S. government officials have said, that she was trying to run him down.
“She shouldn’t have put herself in that situation and its 100 percent her fault,” he said. “He had every right to defend himself.”
Good was shot and killed by Ross in Minneapolis after reportedly dropping off her 6-year-old son at school and attempting to drive home with her wife.
Video of the incident shows a series of exchanges between them and ICE before Good began to drive forward and an ICE agent opened fire into the vehicle at close range. The Trump administration has defended the lethal action as self defense.
