Overview
- ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed 37-year-old Renée Good in her SUV in Minneapolis on January 7.
- Prosecutor Joseph Thompson obtained a warrant to examine the vehicle, but investigators were told to abort the search by senior Washington officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel, according to the New York Times.
- The Justice Department directed authorities to pursue alternative lines of inquiry, including scrutiny of Good’s partner, a move several Minnesota prosecutors labeled legally dangerous.
- Thompson and multiple senior prosecutors resigned in protest, triggering a personnel crisis in the Minnesota office.
- At the one-month mark, protests outside Minneapolis’s Whipple Federal Building resulted in arrests and one officer injury after demonstrators threw sex toys and other objects, the sheriff’s office said.