FBI Investigating Renee Good While Obstructing Probes Into ICE Killer |
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FBI investigators are looking into Renee Nicole Good’s life and potential history of anti-ICE activism after her death, sources familiar with the situation have said, seemingly trying to retroactively justify her killing as they obstruct probes into her killer, ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
Sources told The New York Times that it “seems increasingly unlikely” that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent will face criminal charges for his shooting and killing of Good.
Rather, the FBI is focusing on Good’s life and possible “connections” to activist groups protesting Trump’s violent armed occupation and raids of liberal regions of the country, under the guise of immigration law enforcement.
This strategy lines up with the Trump administration’s personal attacks against Good. President Donald Trump baselessly said that Good and her wife are “professional agitators” who were being paid — a claim that has zero basis in fact, and that parrots false conspiracy theories that paid actors are behind the resistance to immigration raids.
It also lines up with the