The Police Murder of Renee Nicole Good Returns Us to a Dark Place in Our History

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted and Published on January 14, 2026

Renee Nicole Good (April 2, 1988 to January 7, 2026).

An Editorial Opinion

On January 7, 2026, Minnesota-based ICE agent Jonathan Ross pulled out his service revolver, pointed it at an unarmed Renee Nicole Good, and pumped three bullets into Good’s head and face at close range. Moments later, Ross called Good a “fucking bitch.”  Ross and fellow ICE agents rejected a doctor’s plea at the scene to administer emergency medical assistance to Good, thereby assuring she would bleed out.

As a former litigator who has prosecuted and defended police officers who killed civilians, it is evident to me that Renee Good is the victim of a cold-blooded police murder.  As is often the case when police officers murder unarmed civilians, a law enforcement coverup of Good's murder has ensued.

Good's murder was a horrenous act of police misconduct. The coverup is worse.

A lifetime of Experiences in America’s Dark Past

In my lifetime, I have seen horrendous acts that have revealed the inhumanity of mankind.

I have seen blacks savagely beaten for trying to use public water fountains and restrooms that were reserved for “whites only” and for trying to eat at segregated lunch counters in local department stores.

State laws forced me to attend all-black public schools in Memphis, Tennessee and Montgomery, Alabama. This situation lasted until I went to college at Southern Illinois University in 1966.

While I was a child in the 1950s, black men in the South were burned alive by white “Christian” mobs for alleged crimes against white women.

In 1955, I saw the Jet magazine photos of 14-year-old Emmett Till’s battered, beaten and mutilated face and body during his open-casket funeral and listened in horror as my parents told us what happened to him. Till was lynched in Mississippi for reportedly flirting with a white woman.

As young children, our parents told us about the lynching of my maternal grandfather’s cousin in Mississippi and how my mother’s father barely escaped death in the same incident.

I watched news of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing on TV while I was a teenager in Montgomery. During this same period, I saw the city of Birmingham’s fire hoses and police dogs turned on school children who were protesting for an end to racial segregation in public accommodations and schools.

In the early 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and Rosa Parks sat in my parents’ home as I listened to them describe the rivers of blood that flowed from the civil rights protesters’ courageous acts of civil disobedience across the South.

I watched real-time TV news accounts about the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers in Mississippi, the 1965 murders of civil rights workers Viola Liuzzo (from Michigan) and Jimmy Lee Jackson (from Selma) in Alabama, and the 1968 assassination of Dr. King in Memphis.

In 1963, I watched Governor George Wallace block the admission of Vivian Malone and James Hood to the University of Alabama.

In August 1964, I watched the news when federal authorities discovered the bodies of three civil rights workers who were kidnapped by local sheriff’s deputies and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan while registering blacks to vote in Mississippi.

In 1965, I watched John Lewis and other civil rights marchers endure horrendous beatings by Alabama State Troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

In 1974, Clarence Norris told me about the beatings and torture he and the other eight Scottsboro Boys endured after their 1931 arrest on false rape charges and imprisonment in Alabama. When I retrieved the Scottsboro Boys’ case file from state archives, the old prison records verified Norris’ account of the prison system’s brutality.

On March 21, 1981, the Ku Klux Klan kidnapped and lynched a 19-year-old African American teenager named Michael Donald in downtown Mobile, Alabama. This was the last recorded lynching in America.

After I became a lawyer in 1973, I was threatened with bodily harm and death so many times because of my representation of poor, underprivileged, and disadvantaged citizens that I have simply lost count of the number of such threats. I have been hauled before grand juries and subjected to lawfare by rogue prosecutors with made-up criminal offenses, attacked by state and federal regulatory bodies with oversight responsibility for my private businesses, and peppered with personal attacks on my character by state officials whose propensity for racial animosity exceeds all known means for objective measurement.

These were not experiences I read about in scholarly journals or best-selling novels; these were my real-life experiences. Throughout it all, I learned what it is like to be a victim of unimaginable acts of hatred, denigration, harassment, abuse of power and process, lawfare, and violence by a tyrannical majority solely because my ethnicity makes me a member of a disfavored group of Americans.

These experiences have not made me bitter, but they have heightened my awareness of just how evil some people can be. As a result, I am aggressive and passionate in the way I fight to safeguard the human and civil rights of others.

Today’s Fights Against Law Enforcement's Darkest Instincts

This is why I am fighting so hard to pursue justice for the 1,000+ acknowledged child molestation, child rape, and child pornography victims in the Jeffrey Epstein vase. President Donald Trump, who is Epstein's party pal, is leading the Department of Justice's obstruction of justice for the elite pedophiles in Epstein's case.

This is why I am fighting hard to expose the truth about the police murder of Renee Nicole Good. Donald Trump, who opposes same-sex marriages, is leading the effort to obstruct justice in Good's murder case because she was in a same-sex marriage with Becca Good.

This is why my news team is investigating what ties, if any, Jonathan Ross has to a child porn ring that ensnared Minnesota-based Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents Timothy Ryan Gregg and Anthony John Crowley in 2025. Both men have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson (for the District of Minnesota) and his local DOJ team were prosecuting Gregg and Crowley.  They resigned yesterday in protest over a directive from top Department of Justice officials to smear Renee and Becca Good.

Confidential news sources say Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is overseeing the obstruction of justice in the Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking case, may voluntarily dismiss the criminal charges against Gregg and Crowley to protect other DHS agents in the child porn ring.  Reportedly, one of these DHS agents is a “high-profile” and "radioactive" ICE agent.

I have lived through barbaric times in America when law enforcement agencies subject citizens to unimaginable acts of horror.  I have seen them murder innocent, unarmed citizens with impunity.  I have seen them targeted, maimed, and smear protestors – simply because they could. 

I do not want to see America return to this dark period in our history.