Lessons from Minneapolis
by Myriam Gurba
Christina Nicholson was walking her dog Zinnia in Minneapolis’s Powderhorn neighborhood when two police cars raced past her.
“Oh!” she thought. “That’s not good.”
When Nicholson got home, she headed to her office to work. Within minutes, her wife knocked at the door and made a grim announcement.
“They killed somebody.”
The police cars that Nicholson had seen were responding to the shooting of legal observer Renee Macklin Good. Nicholson and her wife live just six blocks from the site where a federal agent killed their comrade in front of her wife, Becca Good. The couple also lives six blocks from George Floyd Square, the site where police officer Derek Chauvin lynched Floyd in 2020.
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