AOC Leads Outrage at PunchUp Revelation ICE Relocated Agent Who Killed Renee Good
“The fact that the agency has reinstated him is a direct message from the administration about the impunity they feel.”
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has led furious Democratic outrage at PunchUp’s discovery that ICE has quietly relocated the agent who shot dead unarmed American mother Renee Good.
As PunchUp reported Monday, Jonathan Ross, 43, was moved out of Minneapolis after just three days on administrative leave for the fatal Jan. 7 shooting, and is now back on duty in a fresh posting, handling investigations and administrative work.
Senior DHS sources told PunchUp that ICE’s internal review of Ross has been frozen indefinitely, effectively held hostage by an FBI probe that whistleblowers and a bipartisan Senate letter allege was killed from the top.
Our reporting has sparked widespread anger on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers revealed their reactions to Migrant Insider and PunchUp.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, the 36-year-old Bronx congresswoman, did not hold back. “I think it is so brazen. It’s intentional,” she raged. “You have an ICE agent who killed a woman, you know, in cold blood. But the fact that the agency has reinstated him is a direct message from the administration about the impunity they feel.”
She warned that every American Ross encountered from his reinstatement onward is “in just as great danger as she was in,” and used the moment to renew her demand that Democrats refuse to give ICE or CBP “a dime.”
She added, “This is exactly what they do. This is the impunity that they feel around this.”
Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride, 35, called the move “absolutely outrageous.” She said: “It is clear this administration has learned nothing from the murders of Renee Good or Alex Pretti, and they seem to be asking for it to happen again. There should be accountability, not unleashing this person back on American citizens in our communities.”
Pretti, 37, a VA ICU nurse, was thrown to the ground and blasted to death by Border Patrol agents as he stepped in to help a woman who’d been shoved by agents. His killing happened roughly a mile from where Good had been shot dead 17 days earlier.
Three months on from the Minneapolis killings, Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez—the pair who shot dead Pretti on Jan. 24—remain on administrative leave with full pay and benefits, their names still officially withheld by DHS, with no federal charges, no state charges, and a DOJ Civil Rights probe that NPR reports has gone nowhere.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, 43, who represents the Minneapolis district where Good lived, told PunchUp and Migrant Insider it was “really, really heartbreaking that we can’t get accountability” for “the murder of Renee Good.”
Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez, 42, said Ross being back on the streets “should concern everyone,” asking pointedly: “What state will he go to?” It is not known where Ross, who is from the Minneapolis area, is currently based.
In response to a request for comment, a DHS spokesperson said, “We are not going to expose the name of this officer. He acted according to his training an (sic) in a manner that ensured his own safety and that of his fellow officers and bystanders.”
The lawmakers interviewed for this article did not agree.
California Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, 53, said Ross’ reinstatement was “beyond the pale,” noting that he “has not shown any remorse” and “has not acknowledged that what he did was illegal, criminal, wrong.” She added that ousting Noem had changed nothing, branding the new Department of Homeland Security secretary “no better.”
Rep. Yassamin Ansari, 34, of Arizona, said it was “absolutely unbelievable that there has been zero accountability when it comes to the murders of Renee Nicole Good or Alex Pretti,” demanding that any ICE agent “who’s committed murder” should be held to account from “the very top.”
Rep. Robert Garcia, 48, the Long Beach Democrat, said Ross’ return to the job was “horrific” and pointed to “a consistent pattern that you’re seeing across DHS.”
“You can’t have an agent that’s involved in this level of an incident where someone actually is losing their life and then go back out to cause more issues without a real investigation that’s independent,” he added.
Sen. John Hickenlooper, 74, of Colorado, said he found Ross’ return to duty “deeply disconcerting,” while veteran House Homeland Security Democrat Bennie Thompson, 78, of Mississippi said, “I’m not comfortable with what I saw on the video. I’m not comfortable with what was said after the immediate killing.”
PunchUp revealed on Monday that one senior ICE official told us the FBI needed to “shit or get off the pot” on the stalled probe. Outgoing ICE Director Todd Lyons has resigned and is set to leave his post on May 31.
PunchUp and Migrant Insider also contacted the White House for comment. They asked what our deadline was, but never sent a further response once informed of it.
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Horrific ? I'm not comfortable ? This is outrageous" These are the remarks from democrats ? I think they really need to be more forceful in their responses. trump is Nazi. His Ice Gestapo murdered two people on national television. They have put immigrant women, children and men in concentration camps and. just like Hitler trump is building a bunker. There are WAY to many parallels to what happened in Nazi Germany. This is fascism Period.
And started a Go Fund Me page…