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FBI Agent Resigns After Unsuccessfully Trying to Probe ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

HeadlineJan 26, 2026

Tracee Mergen, an FBI supervisor in the Minneapolis field office, has resigned after unsuccessfully trying to investigate ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Good. Mergen resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross. It comes as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.

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