Murder
January 12, 2026
In July, a man died less than two miles from my home while being pinned to the ground by police officers. The police had been called because the man was acting erratically and having some sort of health event. I was deeply concerned, and I wanted a thorough investigation of the incident. If the police officers used excessive force or acted with ill intent, I want them to be held accountable.
There were a number of protests in the area shortly after this incident. I decided not to attend them. I anticipated that some attendees of those protests would accuse the police officers of murder. Since the deceased seemed to be having a health event before police were called, I did not know whether the police were to blame. Therefore I did not want to participate in a protest that might make such accusations.
I was also confident that there would be a thorough investigation. I hope that this confidence was well placed.
The death of Renee Nicole Good is a very different situation. The administration has made it clear that they are avoiding investigation. The FBI is trying to block state and local officials from investigating. I hope that state and local officials are able to investigate and prosecute despite this, but I am skeptical.
JD Vance suggests that we watch video of the incident, so I did. I also watched several breakdowns of the video footage:
Based on all that video footage, it looks like the car was moving slowly and away from the ICE thug. It also like looks the ICE thug walks away without a scratch from this slow-moving vehicle. It looks like he was in about as much danger as he would be walking through any grocery store parking lot. Based on the words uttered just after the shooting, it sounds like he shot her out of unwarranted anger — not out of self-defense.
This was a murder.