Hundreds of Coloradans stood in reverent silence outside Colorado Springs City Hall on Sunday as the voice of Renee Good rang out across the crowd. “I have the sense to recognize that I don’t know how to let you go,” she crooned. The audio was from Good’s senior solo at Coronado High School, just four miles away.
Former classmates and her high school choir accompanist, Ruth Schubarth, had scrambled to find the 2006 audio clip featuring a teenage Good singing Sarah McLachlan’s “Do What You Have To Do.” Good’s friend, Lindsay Scurto, picked up where the recording ended, finishing the song with the help of Schubarth on piano.
Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was shot dead in her vehicle by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 7. Her death has sparked national outcry and deep polarization as people debate what transpired. Federal officials are defending the officer who fired the lethal shot, saying it was self-defense. Others, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, say the shooting was a reckless use of power…