🚨 The FBI Supervisor Who Tried to Investigate Renee Good’s Killing Just Resigned
And six senior prosecutors reportedly resigned too—after DOJ pressured them to stop examining the ICE shooter.
Renee Good was a 37-year-old mother. She was unarmed. She was shot and killed by a brutal ICE agent in Minneapolis on January 7th while behind the wheel of her Honda Pilot.
And now the story has taken a turn that should shake every American who still believes the words “civil rights” mean something.
An FBI supervisor who tried to investigate the ICE officer who shot her has reportedly resigned—after being pressured to stop.
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The resignation is the receipt
According to reporting, the FBI agent who resigned is Tracee Mergen, a supervisor in the FBI’s Minneapolis field office. She sought to open a civil rights inquiry into the ICE officer involved in the killing, Jonathan Ross—the kind of step that is commonly taken in shootings like this, because that’s what a functioning system does: it investigates the use of force.
But instead of letting the inquiry proceed, FBI leadership in Washington reportedly pressured her to discontinue it. And she resigned.
Family, that’s not an “internal personnel issue.” That’s a flare shot into the night sky.
Because when a supervisor walks away from a career like that, it’s usually for one reason: she was being ordered to look away.
And then came the second wave: prosecutors resigning
The same reporting describes something even more chilling: rather than pursue what’s normally done—an investigation into whether excessive force was used—senior Justice Department officials have reportedly said there are no plans to follow that path.
Instead, the Justice Department reportedly decided to investigate Renee Good and her partner, Becca Good, scrutinizing possible ties to left-wing protest groups in Minneapolis.
That decision prompted at least six senior prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota to resign in protest.
Six.
Not one. Not two. Six senior prosecutors walking away because they apparently felt the department’s course was wrong.
That is not normal. That is not “politics.” That is the system cracking in public.
How propaganda works: kill, smear, and call it “security”
After Renee was killed, several Trump administration officials described her as a “domestic terrorist,” accusing her of trying to ram the ICE officer with her vehicle.
But a video analysis described in the reporting said there was no indication the officer had been run over.
And there it is—the whole playbook:
A woman is killed.
The government smears her to justify it.
Investigators are pressured not to investigate the shooter.
The dead woman and her loved ones become the target.
That’s not “law and order.” That’s state power protecting itself.
And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
The most damning detail: blocking oversight
The reporting also says federal investigators have refused to cooperate with state and local prosecutors in Minnesota, complicating any efforts they might take to open their own investigations.
If you’re confident in the shooting, you don’t obstruct oversight. You welcome it.
If you’re sure the facts vindicate you, you don’t pressure investigators to stop. You invite the scrutiny and let it clear the air.
So when you see obstruction and pressure, the reasonable question isn’t “Why are people upset?” The reasonable question is: What are they trying to keep from being examined?
This isn’t isolated. It’s a campaign
The same reporting says the Justice Department has opened an investigation into elected Democrats in Minnesota to determine whether they may have conspired to impede immigration enforcement actions. Subpoenas reportedly went to the offices of Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey, and Mayor Kaohly Her of St. Paul, among others.
So look at the contrast:
The ICE shooter is not being investigated for excessive force, according to officials.
The FBI supervisor who tried to investigate resigned after alleged pressure.
Prosecutors resigned after the department reportedly chose to investigate the victim’s family.
Elected officials are being investigated for allegedly resisting federal actions.
Protesters are being charged and prosecutors tried to keep them jailed pretrial—requests judges reportedly denied.
That’s a pattern. And it’s an ugly one.
This is what “absolute immunity” looks like in real life
When leaders talk about “immunity” for federal agents, most people imagine some abstract legal debate.
But the real-world translation is simple: we can do what we want, and you can’t touch us.
And once that becomes the operating assumption, everything changes. You don’t just get more abuses. You get more brazen abuses. You get more lies that don’t even try to be convincing. You get more intimidation. You get more targeting of anyone who asks questions.
Because if consequences disappear, cruelty expands.
Some will say: “This is just partisan drama.”
No. Partisanship is when people argue about policy preferences. What’s being described here is deeper than that: it’s whether the system will even allow a standard civil-rights inquiry when a federal agent kills an unarmed mother.
Some will say: “The Clintons, the Democrats, the Republicans—everybody plays games.”
Fine. People play games. But the rule of law is not supposed to be a game. If the government can kill, smear, and then prevent investigation, the game is over. That’s not democracy. That’s a warning.
And some will say: “Renee Good was a threat.”
But the reporting says a video analysis showed no indication that the officer had been run over. That matters. Because if the truth doesn’t matter in a killing, then none of us are safe from being labeled after the fact.
Here’s the question I can’t stop asking
What kind of country investigates the grieving partner of a dead mother before it investigates the man who shot her?
What kind of Justice Department refuses the “normal path” in a fatal shooting, but rushes to open probes into elected officials and protesters?
What kind of system pressures an FBI supervisor to stand down—and then acts shocked when she resigns?
Family, that’s not justice. That’s intimidation with letterhead.
What we should demand—right now
We should demand that the investigation everyone expects in a functioning republic actually happens: an independent, credible inquiry into the use of force that killed Renee Good.
We should demand transparency—because if this administration is right, it should be able to prove it with facts, not smears.
And we should demand that federal power stop being used as a weapon against dissent—because when a government starts treating accountability as treason, it’s telling you what it plans to become.
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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
Not one single thing about this case has been ethical. NOTHING. Evil from top to bottom.
The "bad guys" dont follow the rules and they use the rules against us because we do follow the rules until maybe sometime when it gets absolutely untenable, we dont.