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FBI investigators are having a explore into Renee Nicole True’s existence and most likely historical past of anti-ICE activism after her loss of life, sources mindful of the wretchedness have said, seemingly attempting to retroactively grunt her killing as they obstruct probes into her killer, ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
Sources told The Fresh York Cases that it “seems to be an increasing number of no longer most likely” that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent will face felony charges for his shooting and killing of True.
Moderately, the FBI is focusing on True’s existence and conceivable “connections” to activist groups protesting Trump’s violent armed occupation and raids of liberal regions of the country, below the guise of immigration law enforcement.
This approach lines up with the Trump administration’s interior most assaults in opposition to True. President Donald Trump baselessly said that True and her accomplice are “skilled agitators” who’ve been being paid — a utter that has zero basis if truth be told, and that parrots misguided conspiracy theories that paid actors are in the wait on of the resistance to immigration raids.
It additionally lines up with the Trump administration’s directive, identified as NSPM-7, for federal law enforcement companies to head after Americans who rob actions to oppose the president’s agenda, including his horrific immigration raids.
In justifying the killing of True, and asserting that her killing used to be in consequence of she used to be a protester, the administration is participating in the true model of repression that it criticizes in assorted international locations — suppressing residents exercising their free speech rights with lethal force.
Whether or no longer True is a protester desires to be immaterial to the investigation, as there will not be this kind of thing as a indication that Ross focused her in consequence of her historical past, and immigration officials have over and over claimed that he killed her in rapid self-protection.
While having a explore into the slain girl’s existence, the FBI is additionally seemingly in the hunt for to let Ross off the hook — or even potentially give Ross a platform to be rewarded, as Republicans have achieved for killers love Kyle Rittenhouse.
The upright is already attempting to reward Ross. This week, upright-soar billionaire Bill Ackman reportedly gave $10,000 to an unverified GoFundMe for the killer, which has raised over $600,000 for unclear causes, as Ross does no longer but have upright troubles nor has he even lost his job.
Lawful troubles might most likely no longer be in Ross’s future, despite a mountain of video evidence exhibiting him shooting and killing True. The FBI has barred Minnesota affirm investigators from gaining access to evidence with regards to the killing, citing federal method — while the felony piece of the Division of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is additionally no longer investigating Ross, despite the usual method of the division investigating lethal shootings by law enforcement.
MS NOW reviews that at the least four top DOJ officials in the piece have resigned in affirm of the department’s refusal to no longer investigate Ross.
Ross has bought unmitigated reward from the administration. Honest on Monday, senior Border Patrol decent Greg Bovino said on Fox Data: “Hats off to that ICE agent.” Vice President JD Vance has said that Americans must essentially be thanking Ross for his carrier, and that he “deserves a debt of gratitude.”
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