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Minneapolis (USA).- Jonathan Ross, the agent of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who killed Renee Good, in Minneapolis last January 7, was suspended from his duties while the investigation of the incident is carried out, according to official information cited by the Huffpost this Wednesday.
Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS, in English), confirmed to the media that Ross had been placed on administrative leave, although the official did not specify when said suspension had occurred.You may be interested in: http://ICE detiene en Miami a Dimitri Vorbe, uno de los magnates más poderosos de Haití
The death of Good sparked a wave of protests across the United States, which grew last weekend after the death of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse shot by Border Patrol agents participating in immigration raids in Minneapolis. The two agents who shot Pretti were also suspended from their duties, as announced today by the DHS. High-ranking officials in the U.S. President Donald Trump's government defended the actions of immigration agents in the two shootings. In Ross's case, the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, assured that the agent enjoyed "absolute immunity". Good, who had blocked the agents' path with their vehicle, was maneuvering to remove it from the raid area when the officials approached to try to stop her, at which moment Ross, who was at the front, shot her and ended her life. The Trump administration claimed from the outset that the agent acted in self-defense because Good, 37, tried to run him over with his vehicle, and that, therefore, he is innocent. The investigation into Good's death, led by the FBI, has been the target of criticism, especially from Minnesota state authorities, who were denied access to the evidence. Following this background, the Minnesota prosecutor requested and obtained an emergency order from a federal judge to prohibit the DHS and federal agencies from destroying or altering evidence about Pretti's death. This Wednesday, a group of Democratic lawmakers from the Senate Judiciary Committee urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to open a civil rights investigation into the death of Good. In their letter to Deputy Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the senators emphasized that the DOJ's decision not to investigate the murder of the woman, a mother of three children, "is emblematic" and is part of a broader trend of the DOJ ignoring the enforcement of civil rights laws in favor of carrying out President Trump's agenda of mass deportations.
