FBI officer who tried to analyze ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good resigns: report | EUROtoday

The FBI officer who tried to analyze the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned, in response to a brand new report.

Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mom of three, was shot a number of occasions by ICE agent Jonathan Ross whereas behind the wheel of her automobile earlier this month in Minneapolis. Good’s loss of life and different immigration officer-involved shootings prompted mass protests towards President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation efforts.

Tracee Mergen, a supervisor within the FBI’s Minneapolis subject workplace, tried a civil rights inquiry into Ross, however has now resigned amid stress from management in Washington, D.C., to drop the case, The New York Times reported, citing folks conversant in the matter.

The Independent reached out to the FBI’s National Press Office and Minneapolis subject workplace, however each declined to touch upon personnel issues.

The Trump administration has defended Ross. Trump beforehand claimed on social media that Good “viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”

“The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis,” the president mentioned.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has known as the Trump administration’s self-defense claims “bulls***.” He mentioned he believed “this was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying.”

At the identical time that the FBI brass is reportedly attempting to cease an investigation into the Good capturing, the Department of Justice has issued subpoenas to no less than 5 prime Democratic Minnesota officers, together with Governor Tim Walz and Frey, because the company seems to analyze whether or not state and native officers conspired to impede federal brokers from immigration enforcement.

“This Justice Department investigation, sparked by calls for accountability in the face of violence, chaos, and the killing of Renee Good, does not seek justice. Walz said in a statement Tuesday. “It is a partisan distraction.”

Frey wrote on X Tuesday, “When the federal gov weaponizes its power to intimidate local leaders for doing their jobs, every American should be concerned.”

Several prime prosecutors in Minnesota resigned final week due to the Justice Department’s unwillingness to probe Ross, and in addition its demand to analyze Good’s widow, Becca, The New York Times beforehand reported, citing folks with information of the matter.

Becca mentioned that she and Good had stopped to help their neighbors throughout an ICE operation on January 7, the day her spouse was fatally shot.

“We had whistles,” Becca mentioned, per MPR News. “They had guns.”