On the morning after he saw the TV footage of Renee Nicole Good’s killing in Minneapolis, Dr. Jay Himmelstein awoke haunted by Bob Dylan’s musical rendition of Hattie Carroll’s killing more than a half-century ago in Baltimore.
On Jan. 7, Good, 37, lay lifeless in the front seat of her SUV from an ICE agent’s shooting, which has set off a week of massive street demonstrations in American cities.
Hattie Carroll’s death, and the pathetic six-month sentence handed to her politically well-connected assailant, moved a young Bob Dylan in 1963 to write “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.”
And now that song has inspired Himmelstein to write “Ode to Renee Nicole Good 1988-2026,” set to the “Hattie Carroll” melody…