An FBI agent who attempted to probe Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good this month has resigned after bureau leadership pressured her to drop the inquiry, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Tracee Mergen, formerly a supervisor in the Minneapolis FBI field office, had opened the inquiry against Ross as a standard investigative procedure common to such shootings,
The New York Times reported. Her departure from the bureau came as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump administration officials immediately wrested investigative authority into the killing away from state and local officials, claiming simultaneously that
the shooting was justified, in accordance with Ross' training and subject to total immunity from legal consequence.