The lawyer representing Renee Good’s family is accusing the Department of Justice of possibly impairing the investigation into her death.

Good, a queer mother of three, was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross earlier this month. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Good of trying to run over Ross, which multiple videos showed was not true, which increased calls that she be impeached.

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Instead, the administration has doubled down on its position that Good herself is to blame for her death and started investigating her widow, Becca Good. The Department of Justice’s Office of Civil Rights said that it was not investigating Ross for a possible use of excessive force.

The Good family hired attorney Antonio Ramanucci, who represented George Floyd’s family, and he told the Legal AF podcast that the government is making it harder to know if Good’s vehicle is being preserved as evidence.

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“Very likely, there are either some bullet fragments or bullets themselves that are inside the vehicle,” he said on the podcast. “There may be shell casings that wound up inside the vehicle. There may be other pieces of evidence inside that vehicle.”

Ramanucci explained that, in a case like this, a lot has to be done immediately to prevent evidence from becoming useless over time. He said he sent a “letter of preservation” to the DOJ asking that they preserve the vehicle because it could be used as evidence in a possible civil case.

“We asked them to preserve that vehicle, to make sure that it’s stored in a safe manner so that none of the evidence gets altered, modified, destroyed, or spoiled,” he said. “If there’s any testing, it’s got to be done with us present.”

Podcast host Adam Klasfeld brought up the possibility that ICE agents kept paramedics at bay even though Renee Good may still have had a pulse by the time they got to her.

“One of the things we learned from the 911 calls was that there was a physician who was on site who said, ‘I could help,'” Ramanucci replied. “And he was denied any opportunity to help Renee while she was on-scene.”

“It could have, at least potentially, saved her life,” Klasfeld said.

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