This week red and green shipping containers on a cargo ship moored at the Port of Tacoma were arranged to spell the word “Renee”. Some passersby and people online were quick to assume it was a reference to 37-year-old Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, as previously reported by The News Tribune.
Renee Carmona told The News Tribune on Wednesday that her boyfriend arranged the containers in honor of her 63rd birthday when the ship was stationed near Long Beach, California last week.
Despite the fact that the “Renee” wasn’t a reference to Good, Tacoma longshoreman Mitchell Meyer told The News Tribune on Wednesday that the Evergreen Line shipping company made staff in Tacoma work late on Monday night, rearranging the containers so they no longer spelled “Renee” before the ship left for China on Tuesday morning. Carmona said she also heard that the ship’s cargo had been rearranged Monday night…