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Jonathan Ross – the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good – moved state and resumed work, report says
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The ICE agent who fatally shot a Minnesota protester in January has been reassigned to a different state and allowed to continue working for the federal government, according to a new report.
Jonathan Ross was captured on camera firing several shots through the windshield of Good’s vehicle as she tried to leave the area on January 7, an incident that caused widespread protests in Minneapolis and the surrounding areas.
The officer is effectively being protected from ICE’s internal accountability process because the FBI investigation into the incident has stalled, senior Department of Homeland Security officials told PunchUp, who first reported the news.
The Independent has contacted the Department of Homeland Security for comment on the reports.
Shortly after Good’s death, reports emerged that the Trump administration had allegedly opened, and then terminated, a civil rights investigation into Ross’s response to the incident.
An initial review determined there were sufficient grounds to investigate him, according to The Washington Post, though the investigation appears to have been abandoned shortly after. The FBI said in a later statement that such decisions “were not made by the FBI.”
“The FBI still continues to pursue evidence in this case with our federal partners, investigating the shooting incident as well as the ongoing violent criminal actors and their funding sources,” the agency said.
“The facts are the initiator, and the facts do not support civil rights investigation.”
Good’s death came following an interaction with several ICE agents, including Ross, on January 7. The 37-year-old had stopped her car in the street and, when ordered to get out, reversed and attempted to escape.
Ross, who was standing at the front-left of the vehicle, fired three shots that struck her in the head and arm and killed her.
Federal law enforcement and other officials, including Donald Trump, defended the shooting, saying that Ross had acted in self-defense and that Good had been attempting to commit an act of “domestic terrorism.”
The incident sparked widespread protests across the U.S. in major metropolitan cities, including Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Just 17 days later, another protester – Alex Pretti – was also shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.