Former New York Post editor sweeps the outlet for his four-word description of Renee Nicole Good

A former New York Post editor had harsh words for his former outlet’s characterization of the Minneapolis woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on Wednesday.

David Yelland, who worked as the Post’s deputy editor in the 1990s, criticized the publication for describing Renee Nicole Good as a “left-wing ‘warrior'” on its Friday cover.

“Today’s New York Post is a disgrace. I speak as a former deputy editor of that newspaper,” he wrote in X.

In a follow-up post, Yelland urged staff at media outlets owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, including the New York Post, to oppose such dismissive coverage.

“What are Murdoch’s editors going to do about the lies and prejudices being told (and repeated by some of their colleagues) around this murder? Wait and go to the bars tonight and forget about it?” he wrote. “Or grow some balls.”

Responding to a post by Canadian lawyer Warren Kinsella, who called the Post’s cover story “fucking appalling,” Yelland noted: “Very good. Well said. Why are so many mainstream journalists happy to smear this woman? What the fuck is going through their heads?”

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The Post article, which can be viewed in full here, describes Good, 37, as part of a “leftist enclave” who resided in a “heavy activist neighborhood in south Minneapolis” with “a large number of homes with windows adorned with LGBTQ+ flags or signs depicting George Floyd.”

Yelland, who later worked as an editor at the British outlet The Sun before pursuing a career in public relations, criticized other major publications for considering “both sides” of Good’s death.

“I have never been more angry than today with my old colleagues at the newspaper. They lie about the murder of a mother,” he wrote. “Why? What’s wrong with them?”

Numerous conservative outlets and media figures have received backlash for their coverage of the shooting, which took place Wednesday shortly after Good dropped off the 6-year-old son he shares with his wife, Becca, at school.

President Donald Trump and members of his administration have attempted to frame Good’s death as an act of self-defense, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described Good’s behavior before the shooting as an act of “domestic terrorism.”