The winter air in Minneapolis, typically frozen into a quiet stillness, shattered under the echo of gunfire on a Tuesday afternoon that would soon become a national scar. The death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good has not only ignited the streets of the Twin Cities but has ripped open the jagged seams of American political discourse, pitting local governance against federal authority and turning a grieving family’s private agony into a polarized battlefield. The facts of the case, while still under the cold lens of investigation, describe a confrontation that ended in a fatal hail of bullets just blocks from the victim’s home, leaving a community in mourning and a nation in a state of volatile unrest. Continue reading…