Renee Nicole Good was a mom, a partner, a daughter, a neighbor, a friend and a human being. She did nothing to deserve being murdered. Like so many others her death has shocked and saddened me to the depths of my being. I feel grief even though just a couple of days ago I’d never heard her name nor would I have ever met her. Somehow, it still feels deeply personal. Maybe it’s the mom connection.. I don’t know… but I can’t imagine my children.. when they were young… having to hear that news and then to somehow go on without me. How do those left behind even protect them from the fallout? The videos, the media, the lies? It’s not possible to shelter them from it.. it’s just not!
This story isn’t going away. I truly don’t believe it will. Not until there’s a resolution. Too many of us can imagine ourselves in her position. I hope and pray for justice but am far from confident that justice will prevail here. I desperately hope I’m wrong.
Thank you for your wisdom, insight and most of all for your humanity, Jack. I’m glad you wrote about Renee Good. It was important to tell her story. To remember her as a human being whose life mattered and ended in the worst possible way and for no justifiable reason.
Susan, what you wrote explains why this feels so personal to so many of us.
When a mother is taken...we don’t see an abstract story...we see our own children...our own lives...our own worst fear.
That recognition....cuts straight through distance and time.
You’re right...there’s no way to fully protect those left behind from the fallout. The images... the noise...the distortions. That’s part of what makes this so unbearable.
You’re also right that this story will NOT just disappear. Too many people can imagine themselves in her place for it to fade quietly.
I share your hope for justice...and I share your fear...that it’s far from guaranteed. Naming that honestly isn’t pessimism...it’s CLARITY.
Thank you for your words...your care...and your humanity. Remembering Renee as a human being, first...is exactly what she deserves.
I cannot help but wonder how things would be different if an execution occurred and it was some guy wearing a mask who got snuffed out. [No, I’m not a sniper and I don’t own a gun.]. But I wonder. Peaceful protests are important; it would be great if millions came out but this past summer, millions did come out, and yet, here we are.
Renee Nicole Good is no longer here. I know of no arrests.
The Epstein files aren’t here either. I do not know if they ever will be.
Mary E, I hear the question beneath what you’re saying; it’s not a desire for violence...it’s the ache of watching impunity and wondering what actually forces accountability.
When peaceful protest feels IGNORED...and truth feels BURIED...that frustration is inevitable.
What keeps this from tipping into despair...is remembering this: systems don’t crack from spectacle alone. They crack...when legitimacy ERODES...when records...pressure... memory...and refusal to move on pile up.
That’s why this story isn’t going away. That’s why names matter. That’s why documentation...persistence...and moral clarity still count...even when justice feels delayed or denied.
You’re right to sit with the discomfort. You’re also right to keep holding the line without surrendering your humanity. That tension...staying present WITHOUT becoming what you oppose...is the hardest work there is.
Thanks, Jack. I doubt this will happen; I imagine Minneapolis’ and Wisconsin’s law enforcement budgets are already past the January forecast, perhaps even the quarterly forecast. If anyone hears of a public sector GoFundMe for the specific investigation and hopefully trial, however unlikely that is, please post the info.
I hear you, Barbara. You’re not wrong to feel broken by this. You are not.
Some moments cut straight through our defenses...because they expose how fragile safety really is...how quickly an ordinary...loving act like trying to get home can turn into irreversible loss.
When that happens...the grief doesn’t stay contained to one story. It echoes every other moment we never fully healed from.
“She was a mom who tried to leave” matters...because it refuses the lie that this was abstract or inevitable. It names the TRUTH...in plain human language.
Thank you for sitting with it...instead of turning away. Remembering isn’t passive...it’s an act of care...and sometimes the only form of resistance we have.
Take care of yourself. Holding memory is heavy work!
This was very difficult to read, Jack. I'm emotionally overwhelmed and tears are involved. My heart breaks for Renee Nicole Good. A mom being a mom, victimized by ICE. Her legacy will live on. We, the people, will see to it, and galvanize our sacred democracy.
Coco, thank you for saying this...and for letting yourself feel it instead of shutting it down.
If this was hard to read...that’s because it should be.
A mother doing what mothers do...trying to protect herself...trying to get home...should never end like this. The tears...mean your humanity is intact.
Renee Nicole Good deserved to be seen as a person first...not a narrative...not a label...not a justification. Holding onto her NAME...her story...and the truth of what happened is how we refuse to let her be erased.
You’re right about legacy. It doesn’t belong to institutions...it belongs to people who remember...who speak her NAMR...and who don’t let this be smoothed over and forgotten.
Take care of yourself today. Grief is NOT weakness. It’s the part of us that still knows...what matters.
This was a horrible thing to watch and the videos that were done before one of the ice guys videos that ended with "F*cking B*tch" showed more n my opinion of where he was standing for the first and second shots. She was told to leave at the beginning and when she tried to they tried to block her.One of my thoughts were "why did he need to fire 2 more shots?" I do not see any reason other than to make sure she was dead. ..which then causes my stomach to turn. There was a guy that posted very slow frame increments of the video that showed pretty much all of it and it is very clear they lied and were wrong about the shooter being hit. The person that posted it said he did forensics breakdowns of videos to get clear image and timing. He said he was going to work on it some more. We never let this just fade away.I also have this other thing ..What happened to the dog that shows up clearly in the ice person's video sitting the back seat but we never see it again..That's the dog mom in me worrying about the dog and the trauma it just experienced...#HOLDFAST
Teri, what you’re describing is in line with MULTIPLE video angles and eyewitness accounts that have circulated.
Newly released cellphone footage shows the ICE agent approaching Renee’s SUV... continuing to film...and then firing three shots as the vehicle began to move...and a voice can clearly be heard saying “f***ing bitch” right after the shooting.
There is a black dog visible in the back seat in the agent’s footage before the shooting... and subsequent reporting indicates the dog was not killed and was seen with family afterward. As a dog lover and friend of 4 dogs...my mind went there as well.
Journalists and independent analysts have pointed out...that the sequence of events in the video does NOT clearly show the driver attempting to hit the agent...and...that in some clips...the officer is positioned off to the side as the vehicle moves.
THAT raises serious questions...about whether deadly force was necessary or justified. I know where I stand on the answer to those question: NO.
Your instinct about the number of shots...and the dog’s presence is understandable... these are exactly the kinds of human details...that make this tragedy feel deeply personal and unsettling...and not just abstract policy debate.
What’s clear from the footage people are analyzing...is that multiple aspects of the official narrative and sequence of events remain in dispute...(a fancy word, in this case for 'Bullshit')and that’s part of why this story isn’t fading.
Thanks for your response Jack. I hope Minnesota is able to charge him with unjustified murder and arrest him if they are able to find him, even if it is years later...
Her wife was also in the car. What about her? She will be the one, along with Renee’s family, who will need to comfort the kids and the doggo. And to somehow carry on. May God be with them. We will not forget 🙏🏼👹
In the ice murder video the wife had gotten out of the car and could not get back in before the shooting from how it looked to me but the dog was in the back seat. The wife appeared to be trying to get in but I don't believe she did. I also think other people's video showed her out of the car screaming.
A great analysis as usual Jack. Moving forward the real news guys are important. Now is the time to continue to hammer the points you make. Keep the anger in the people’s minds. It will stop the paralysis of fear. Get the people to slow down the machine. Get the local politicians and state dems to stand up (like Philly and nyc). And with carefully worded releases get the Epstein files back into the news cycle. Orange daddy is complicit and a criminal helping an ICE criminal.
On a side note Mr. Ross must be reminded that there is no statute of limitations on murder nor is there one on hindering prosecution (listening couch boy and ice Barbie and satchel bovino?)
The narrative coming from this regime regarding Renee’s murder is absolutely dehumanizing. We can NOT ever normalize killing innocent people. My heart goes out to her loved ones. I’m grateful her little boy wasn’t in the car when this happened. 💔
Nothing she is accused of doing remotely warrants the death penalty. And shooting at the driver of a car barreling towards you is an insane way to try to insure your own safety. I'm not sure someone could stop themselves from trying to leap out of the way, much less point and shoot a gun instead.
Bad few days so I am past tired. But something I would like to see, and maybe it can happen. A light/prayer/remembrance vigil some time in the spring, for Renee, the pregnant mom who was dragged through the street on her belly, all those being detained without due process and murdered by action or neglect, to never forget. My candle will have to be in the window, as maybe many others. Still coming to grips not about trump, we all knew he was evil, not about Noem, she is a killer at heart, but all the others who bend the knee.
Renee Nicole Good was a mom, a partner, a daughter, a neighbor, a friend and a human being. She did nothing to deserve being murdered. Like so many others her death has shocked and saddened me to the depths of my being. I feel grief even though just a couple of days ago I’d never heard her name nor would I have ever met her. Somehow, it still feels deeply personal. Maybe it’s the mom connection.. I don’t know… but I can’t imagine my children.. when they were young… having to hear that news and then to somehow go on without me. How do those left behind even protect them from the fallout? The videos, the media, the lies? It’s not possible to shelter them from it.. it’s just not!
This story isn’t going away. I truly don’t believe it will. Not until there’s a resolution. Too many of us can imagine ourselves in her position. I hope and pray for justice but am far from confident that justice will prevail here. I desperately hope I’m wrong.
Thank you for your wisdom, insight and most of all for your humanity, Jack. I’m glad you wrote about Renee Good. It was important to tell her story. To remember her as a human being whose life mattered and ended in the worst possible way and for no justifiable reason.
This is hard.
#HOLDFAST
~Susan
Susan, what you wrote explains why this feels so personal to so many of us.
When a mother is taken...we don’t see an abstract story...we see our own children...our own lives...our own worst fear.
That recognition....cuts straight through distance and time.
You’re right...there’s no way to fully protect those left behind from the fallout. The images... the noise...the distortions. That’s part of what makes this so unbearable.
You’re also right that this story will NOT just disappear. Too many people can imagine themselves in her place for it to fade quietly.
I share your hope for justice...and I share your fear...that it’s far from guaranteed. Naming that honestly isn’t pessimism...it’s CLARITY.
Thank you for your words...your care...and your humanity. Remembering Renee as a human being, first...is exactly what she deserves.
-Jack
#HOLDFAST
I cannot help but wonder how things would be different if an execution occurred and it was some guy wearing a mask who got snuffed out. [No, I’m not a sniper and I don’t own a gun.]. But I wonder. Peaceful protests are important; it would be great if millions came out but this past summer, millions did come out, and yet, here we are.
Renee Nicole Good is no longer here. I know of no arrests.
The Epstein files aren’t here either. I do not know if they ever will be.
Mary E, I hear the question beneath what you’re saying; it’s not a desire for violence...it’s the ache of watching impunity and wondering what actually forces accountability.
When peaceful protest feels IGNORED...and truth feels BURIED...that frustration is inevitable.
What keeps this from tipping into despair...is remembering this: systems don’t crack from spectacle alone. They crack...when legitimacy ERODES...when records...pressure... memory...and refusal to move on pile up.
That’s why this story isn’t going away. That’s why names matter. That’s why documentation...persistence...and moral clarity still count...even when justice feels delayed or denied.
You’re right to sit with the discomfort. You’re also right to keep holding the line without surrendering your humanity. That tension...staying present WITHOUT becoming what you oppose...is the hardest work there is.
-Jack
Thanks, Jack. I doubt this will happen; I imagine Minneapolis’ and Wisconsin’s law enforcement budgets are already past the January forecast, perhaps even the quarterly forecast. If anyone hears of a public sector GoFundMe for the specific investigation and hopefully trial, however unlikely that is, please post the info.
In re Nagle from 1890
https://supremecourtcasebriefs.com/in-re-neagle135-u-s-1-1890/
Say her name. Keep saying her name. Don't let this fade away like it usually does against so much other noise and distraction.
I don't need to add anything to that, Karen Hipp. You synthesized it...beautifully.
-Jack
🔥🔥🔥
This murder broke me, the same way that Sandy Hook did. "She was a Mom who tried to leave.”
Thank you for writing this. We must never forget.
I hear you, Barbara. You’re not wrong to feel broken by this. You are not.
Some moments cut straight through our defenses...because they expose how fragile safety really is...how quickly an ordinary...loving act like trying to get home can turn into irreversible loss.
When that happens...the grief doesn’t stay contained to one story. It echoes every other moment we never fully healed from.
“She was a mom who tried to leave” matters...because it refuses the lie that this was abstract or inevitable. It names the TRUTH...in plain human language.
Thank you for sitting with it...instead of turning away. Remembering isn’t passive...it’s an act of care...and sometimes the only form of resistance we have.
Take care of yourself. Holding memory is heavy work!
#HoldFast
-Jack
This was very difficult to read, Jack. I'm emotionally overwhelmed and tears are involved. My heart breaks for Renee Nicole Good. A mom being a mom, victimized by ICE. Her legacy will live on. We, the people, will see to it, and galvanize our sacred democracy.
Coco, thank you for saying this...and for letting yourself feel it instead of shutting it down.
If this was hard to read...that’s because it should be.
A mother doing what mothers do...trying to protect herself...trying to get home...should never end like this. The tears...mean your humanity is intact.
Renee Nicole Good deserved to be seen as a person first...not a narrative...not a label...not a justification. Holding onto her NAME...her story...and the truth of what happened is how we refuse to let her be erased.
You’re right about legacy. It doesn’t belong to institutions...it belongs to people who remember...who speak her NAMR...and who don’t let this be smoothed over and forgotten.
Take care of yourself today. Grief is NOT weakness. It’s the part of us that still knows...what matters.
-Jack
Pictures are worth thousands of words. “Don’t walk away Renee” (music by The Left Banke), please stay with us.
They are, Pamela H. They are.
-Jack
This was a horrible thing to watch and the videos that were done before one of the ice guys videos that ended with "F*cking B*tch" showed more n my opinion of where he was standing for the first and second shots. She was told to leave at the beginning and when she tried to they tried to block her.One of my thoughts were "why did he need to fire 2 more shots?" I do not see any reason other than to make sure she was dead. ..which then causes my stomach to turn. There was a guy that posted very slow frame increments of the video that showed pretty much all of it and it is very clear they lied and were wrong about the shooter being hit. The person that posted it said he did forensics breakdowns of videos to get clear image and timing. He said he was going to work on it some more. We never let this just fade away.I also have this other thing ..What happened to the dog that shows up clearly in the ice person's video sitting the back seat but we never see it again..That's the dog mom in me worrying about the dog and the trauma it just experienced...#HOLDFAST
Teri, what you’re describing is in line with MULTIPLE video angles and eyewitness accounts that have circulated.
Newly released cellphone footage shows the ICE agent approaching Renee’s SUV... continuing to film...and then firing three shots as the vehicle began to move...and a voice can clearly be heard saying “f***ing bitch” right after the shooting.
There is a black dog visible in the back seat in the agent’s footage before the shooting... and subsequent reporting indicates the dog was not killed and was seen with family afterward. As a dog lover and friend of 4 dogs...my mind went there as well.
Journalists and independent analysts have pointed out...that the sequence of events in the video does NOT clearly show the driver attempting to hit the agent...and...that in some clips...the officer is positioned off to the side as the vehicle moves.
THAT raises serious questions...about whether deadly force was necessary or justified. I know where I stand on the answer to those question: NO.
Your instinct about the number of shots...and the dog’s presence is understandable... these are exactly the kinds of human details...that make this tragedy feel deeply personal and unsettling...and not just abstract policy debate.
What’s clear from the footage people are analyzing...is that multiple aspects of the official narrative and sequence of events remain in dispute...(a fancy word, in this case for 'Bullshit')and that’s part of why this story isn’t fading.
#HOLDFAST
-Jack
Thanks for your response Jack. I hope Minnesota is able to charge him with unjustified murder and arrest him if they are able to find him, even if it is years later...
Her wife was also in the car. What about her? She will be the one, along with Renee’s family, who will need to comfort the kids and the doggo. And to somehow carry on. May God be with them. We will not forget 🙏🏼👹
In the ice murder video the wife had gotten out of the car and could not get back in before the shooting from how it looked to me but the dog was in the back seat. The wife appeared to be trying to get in but I don't believe she did. I also think other people's video showed her out of the car screaming.
The flu hit me hard this am. Chicken soup, crackers etc later
I'm sorry to hear this, Joan. The flu SUCKS. Rest, hydrate...and rest some more. Looking forward to hearing that you are coming out of it.
-Jack
Thank you Jack, slowly recovering but it will pass, home care, I did your suggestion and more. I love this song https://genius.com/Mario-lanza-ill-walk-with-god-lyrics
Thank you Jack, sharing part of your article here.
A great analysis as usual Jack. Moving forward the real news guys are important. Now is the time to continue to hammer the points you make. Keep the anger in the people’s minds. It will stop the paralysis of fear. Get the people to slow down the machine. Get the local politicians and state dems to stand up (like Philly and nyc). And with carefully worded releases get the Epstein files back into the news cycle. Orange daddy is complicit and a criminal helping an ICE criminal.
On a side note Mr. Ross must be reminded that there is no statute of limitations on murder nor is there one on hindering prosecution (listening couch boy and ice Barbie and satchel bovino?)
The narrative coming from this regime regarding Renee’s murder is absolutely dehumanizing. We can NOT ever normalize killing innocent people. My heart goes out to her loved ones. I’m grateful her little boy wasn’t in the car when this happened. 💔
Nothing she is accused of doing remotely warrants the death penalty. And shooting at the driver of a car barreling towards you is an insane way to try to insure your own safety. I'm not sure someone could stop themselves from trying to leap out of the way, much less point and shoot a gun instead.
Bravo, Jack. This essay alone was worth the price of admission.
Bad few days so I am past tired. But something I would like to see, and maybe it can happen. A light/prayer/remembrance vigil some time in the spring, for Renee, the pregnant mom who was dragged through the street on her belly, all those being detained without due process and murdered by action or neglect, to never forget. My candle will have to be in the window, as maybe many others. Still coming to grips not about trump, we all knew he was evil, not about Noem, she is a killer at heart, but all the others who bend the knee.