The ICE officer who killed Renee Good in a shooting that spurred nationwide protests earlier this year was back at work shortly after the shooting, and federal investigations into the incident have stalled, according to a new report — the latest example of the federal government failing to fully investigate deaths and injuries at the hands of immigration officials.

Jonathan Ross, the officer who fatally shot Good in Minneapolis in January, was moved to another state after an initial three-day administrative leave and is now performing “administrative and investigative” duties, according to the report, which was published Monday by PunchUp, a new investigative outlet founded by Daily Beast reporter Tom Latchem.

An FBI investigation of the shooting has stalled, PunchUp reports, citing senior officials. As a result, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not been able to move forward with an internal review of the incident.

One unnamed ICE official told PunchUp that the probe was “just hanging out there” and that the FBI should “shit or get off the pot.”

Federal officials have also held up the local investigation into Good’s death, and multiple unnamed Department of Homeland Security officials told PunchUp that the White House itself was behind federal agencies’ refusal to cooperate with state investigators.

Last month, the state of Minnesota sued the federal government for access to evidence from the fatal shootings of Good and Alex Pretti, whom federal agents fatally shot days after Good’s death, as well as evidence from the nonfatal shooting of Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis. The federal refusal to share evidence from shootings with state investigators is extremely unusual.

After encountering Good behind the wheel of her Honda Pilot on a Minneapolis street in January, one agent told Good to get out of her vehicle and reached for the driver’s side door handle while Ross circled the car on foot, filming video. As Good began to drive off, Ross, who had walked in front of the vehicle, drew his firearm and shot at Good three times, killing her. Video of the incident from Ross’ phone revealed he called Good a “fucking bitch” after shooting her.

Ross and other agents who interacted with Good before her death appear to have violated ICE’s use of force policies, according to a copy of the ICE Firearms and Use of Force Directive that HuffPost obtained. Separately, ICE agents in at least one field office were reminded to avoid standing in front of cars, one agent present at the meeting told HuffPost; they were also advised to let people drive away if they seemed intent on doing so.

When reached for comment about the PunchUp story about Ross, a DHS media account said in an emailed statement, without using the agent’s name: “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 Justice Department did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. Neither DHS nor DOJ denied Latchem’s reporting to PunchUp, instead referring to ongoing investigations.

Ross’ killing of Good — followed days later by another fatal shooting by DHS agents, of Pretti — set off nationwide protests. The deaths, and the backlash to them, ultimately contributed to the drawdown of federal forces from Minneapolis, Donald Trump’s decision to yank Border Patrol mascot Greg Bovino from the area, and the ouster of then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The day after Pretti was fatally shot, Bovino said the agents involved had not been placed on administrative leave and instead had been allowed to keep working. Three days later, DHS reversed course, saying that the two agents who shot at Pretti had, in fact, been placed on leave.

In recent months, the federal government has consistently blocked transparency into shooting investigations, exaggerated or lied about agents’ injuries, and falsely smeared the victims of its agents’ shootings as “domestic terrorists” and criminals.

After an immigration agent shot Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis in January, the Trump administration was quick to claim that agents had been “ambushed” and that Sosa-Celis and others had “attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle.” That was a lie, video showed, and federal prosecutors ultimately dropped the charges in the case, citing “newly discovered evidence in this matter [that was] materially inconsistent with the allegations.”

“Lying under oath is a serious federal offense,” then-ICE leader Todd Lyons said, referring to a probe of the ICE officers who had made false claims about the shooting.

In Chicago, Charles Exum, a Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez multiple times in October last year, “was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” Christopher Parente, Martinez’s attorney, told HuffPost. (In November, Exum said he had never been suspended by Border Patrol.) Border Patrol’s parent agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said in February that Exum had been placed on administrative leave.

Exum called Martinez a “bitch” before shooting her five times, video showed, and drove his car across the country after the shooting despite the vehicle being potential evidence in the shooting case.

“We were in the middle of that destruction-of-evidence hearing when they dismissed the case,” Parente told HuffPost. As with other cases, video of the incident — released in the course of a civil suit Martinez filed against the government — showed that Exum had lied about what happened, Parente said.

As with Good and Pretti, the Trump administration referred to Martinez as a “domestic terrorist” after the shooting.

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