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The Psychology Behind Law Enforcement Force
The killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and the memory of being slammed against a courthouse wall in Hancock County nearly thirty years ago are separated by time, geography, and circumstance. But beneath both events lie a deeper question, one that goes beyond law, beyond policy, beyond training:
What Minneapolis and Hancock County Reveal About Power, Process, and the Fragility of Justice
The killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has already sparked national outrage, but beneath the emotional shock lies a more profound legal crisis — one that echoes across decades and reaches back to a courthouse wall in Hancock County, Georgia, where I once found myself slammed by officers whose authority I had dared to question. These two incidents, separated by nearly thirty years, illuminate the same structural fault line: what happens when law enforcement power collides with the legal process designed to restrain it.
From Hancock County to Minneapolis
The killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has shaken the nation, not only because of the brutality captured on video, but because of the speed with which law enforcement and federal officials moved to justify it. Before her family could even process the loss, the narrative machine was already turning labeling her a threat, a terrorist, a danger to officers.