Tom Homan said this past winter’s Operation Metro Surge “wasn’t perfect,” but insisted federal officials corrected the problems after the operation drew scrutiny. “Things weren't perfect. We addressed it. We fixed it,” Homan said earlier this week when asked about the effort.
The remark came as federal officials, following a judge’s order, handed over a digital drive containing cellphone data, statements and video and photo evidence taken by or of ICE agent Jonathan Ross in the moments before he shot Renee Good. The request for that material was filed in connection with a lawsuit tied to a man convicted of assaulting Ross during a traffic stop, and Rebecca Good said she is hopeful the evidence she requested will be turned over soon.
For the Good family, the legal fight is still unfolding in plain view. Their SUV is being held in a federal storage facility, and lawyer Antonio Romanucci said multiple requests for information and evidence since January have gone unanswered. The records handoff offers the first clear sign that part of that dispute may finally be moving, even if the broader questions around what happened before the shooting remain unresolved.
Operation Metro Surge now sits in that awkward space between a federal operation officials say they corrected and a case still producing unanswered requests and a locked-up vehicle. Homan’s answer was meant to close the book on the operation, but the evidence fight around Ross and Good shows it is not closed yet.
