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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.

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[–] DougHolland@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is why ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS is such a true truism. Cops who try to do the right thing are either fired or have to quit. Only the bastards remain.

[–] bassow@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone inside law enforcement called it "An exodus of morality" that was going on across all agencies.

[–] DougHolland@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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.

Probably because they were targeted for going the right thing, and faced some kind of retaliatory "well now we're investigating you, for investigating us!" Bullshit

I honestly don't know if the right answer is for people to stay or go in these kinds of situations. This doesn't seem any different than the prosecutors who left because they were being told to investigate Good's widow.

I do know that when you look at people that rationalized continuing to work for Nazis vs those that refused, there are very few who stuck around because they thought they could help people from the inside.

The lack of morale among Nazis, dwindling public support, and few loyalists truly willing to die for Hitler weren't the only reasons they lost the war, but they also weren't insignificant factors related to their defeat.

[–] garth@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you saw a federal agent commit a crime, no you didn't.

-- Kash Patel

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

"I AM THE LAW" --Judge Dredd

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

Anyone left in agencies like the FBI by the end of this term is fundamentally compromised.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

Another day another coward