The outrage was instant. A billionaire’s $10,000 gift to the ICE agent who shot Renee Nicole Good
ripped through a grieving nation like a fresh wound.
Supporters called it due process.
Critics called it blood money. As Renee’s widow spoke
of sunshine and kindness, others asked: What is a Black mother’s life wor… Continues…
Bill Ackman’s donation to Jonathan Ross landed in a country already split open by grief and suspicion.
To some, his $10,000 contribution was a principled stand on presumption of innocence;
to others, it felt like a cold endorsement of a system that too often justifies deadly
force against Black and brown bodies. At the same time,
more than $1.5 million poured into Renee Good’s GoFundMe,
a tidal wave of small-dollar sorrow for a 37-year-old mother of three who never came home.
In the middle of the political shouting, Renee’s widow,
Becca, tried to pull the focus
back to who was lost: a woman she says “sparkled,”
who believed in radical
kindness and in keeping one another safe.
Between a hedge fund billionaire, a defended ICE agent,
and a devastated family, the real question lingers
in the streets of Minneapolis and beyond:
not just who is innocent, but whose
humanity we choose to see.
