cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42167647
News of Tracee Mergen’s decision came before agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, another US citizen in Minneapolis
A supervisor in the FBI’s Minneapolis field office who unsuccessfully attempted to investigate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in the city on 7 January has resigned, according to multiple reports.
News of agent Tracee Mergen’s resignation surfaced shortly before federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. Pretti and Good were both 37-year-old US citizens.
Mergen resigned following pressure from the bureau in Washington DC to discontinue an inquiry into ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who shot Good to death as videos showed her trying to drive away from a confrontation, according to the New York Times and NBC News.
Someone inside law enforcement called it “An exodus of morality” that was going on across all agencies.
I like that line. Sounds almost poetic, and it might make some folks stop and think. Not that there’s a lot of morality to be exodused, inside law enforcement.