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Top Trump administration officials derailed an investigation into an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good last month, fearing that a probe by federal agents in Minnesota would undermine the White House’s narrative about the killing, according to a New York Times report.
Per the report, which cites anonymous sources with knowledge of the inner workings of the inquiry, just hours after Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross, federal agents within the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota began preparations to investigate her killing as a potential civil rights violation. However, just after the office obtained a warrant to search Good’s car — a process that would include examining blood splatters and bullet holes — they were instructed to halt the inquiry immediately by senior Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, including FBI director Kash Patel.
Those senior officials were apparently concerned that the investigation, led by then-Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson, could contradict President Donald Trump’s official (and demonstrably false) statements on Good’s death, in which he wrongly claimed Good “ran over” the ICE agent, despite concrete video evidence demonstrating that never happened.
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