1. United States
2. Ill.
3. Letter

I am writing to formally express my anger, concern, and demand for accountability regarding the fatal shooting of Renée Nicole Good by a federal agent. While federal officials have publicly framed this killing as an act of self-defense, they have simultaneously acknowledged that the agent involved had previously experienced a severe and traumatic on-duty incident in which he was dragged by a vehicle and seriously injured. That prior trauma is now being cited to contextualize — and implicitly excuse — the agent’s actions. This raises a critical and unresolved question: Why was this agent returned to field operations at all? Six to seven months is not a meaningful recovery period for a traumatic physical and psychological incident of that magnitude. No reasonable standard of public safety allows an armed agent to return to high-risk enforcement activity without rigorous, documented medical and psychological clearance. To date, neither DHS nor ICE has provided transparency on whether such evaluations occurred, what standards were used, or who specifically authorized the agent’s return to active duty. That failure is not incidental. It represents a systemic breakdown in leadership and accountability. If an agent was unfit for duty, the fault does not stop with the individual — it extends upward to supervisors, medical evaluators, command leadership, DHS officials, and ultimately federal oversight authorities who allowed this to happen. Leadership does not get to invoke trauma after the fact while avoiding responsibility for placing an unfit officer back into the field. I am calling on you, as my representative, to take the following actions: 1. Demand full disclosure of all medical and psychological fitness-for-duty evaluations conducted on the agent following his prior traumatic incident. 2. Identify who authorized the agent’s return to field operations and under what criteria. 3. Require DHS and ICE to publicly release their fitness-for-duty standards following serious injury or trauma. 4. Support an independent investigation into whether systemic negligence contributed to this killing. 5. Push for enforceable reforms ensuring that no agent returns to armed field duty without transparent, independent clearance after severe trauma. Renée Nicole Good should be alive. The public deserves answers, not post-hoc justifications. Trauma cannot be used as both an explanation and a shield from accountability. I expect your office to take this matter seriously and to respond with the steps you are taking to ensure transparency, accountability, and meaningful reform.,