State officials say FBI is freezing them out of Minneapolis ICE shooting probe
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A counterprotester yells at demonstrators protesting outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Thursday. People were protesting the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a federal law enforcement operation Wednesday. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota authorities said Thursday that the FBI was taking over the investigation into an immigration officer’s deadly shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, freezing them out of the inquiry and blocking them from accessing evidence.
Because of the federal move, “it feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said. “And I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment,” he added.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good on Wednesday, setting off protests in Minneapolis that continued overnight and into Thursday morning. Trump administration officials have defended the shooting as appropriate.
Authorities initially said the investigation into what happened was being conducted by the Minneapolis Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), a state agency, and the FBI. The Minneapolis Police Department described them both as “leading the investigation.”
On Thursday morning, however, the BCA said in a statement that it had been told by the FBI that the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis “had reversed course: the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation.”
As a result, the BCA said, the agency “reluctantly” pulled out of the investigation.
Trump administration officials, including President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, have defended the Minneapolis shooting, saying the ICE officer, who has not been publicly identified, feared for his life and was acting in self-defense when Good threatened him with her car.
Good “attempted to run a law enforcement officer over,” Noem said Wednesday evening.
Speaking Thursday morning, Noem said the investigation into the shooting was continuing but repeated her defenses of the ICE officer, calling him “an experienced officer who followed his training.”
The FBI declined to comment on the BCA’s statement regarding the investigation. The U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis and the Justice Department’s headquarters in D.C. did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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That didnt take long.
Hmm...maybe constantly calling fed officers gestapo, nazis, etc...had something to do with it?
Ka$h has stuffed the FBI mattress with extrapliable sycophants.
Right now Patel is trying to figure out to get that AI thingy to produce a video where the ICE agent gets hit by the SUV, so that he can say the other videos were AI.
Why should he do that when there is already a video with indisputable proof that the woman hit the LEO
Where's this video? Can you embed it into a post or link to it? Otherwise your post is easy to ignore.
Cop thinking to himself - "now that you have missed me with your car, I think I will kill you"
Your liked video is not "indisputable proof" of anything either way. It's too far away with trees in the view.
Better?
I have no idea what he was thinking. I have no idea what she was thinking.
Worse yet, the aggressive movement of the SUV is what happens when you shoot the driver in the face.
How many times to you need to be provided with video evidence that the agent was hit by the woman. Hell, even you admitted in another post that he was. To wit..
The hatred of Trump is just too overwhelming to stick with the correct answer, so it had to be changed from, yes, she hit him, to...oooops...I mean she missed him.
This dumbass shot at the woman while she was driving. If he got hit by a driver with a bullet in her face then karma is real. Absolutely no reason to shoot this woman. Her car took off under the control of an incapacitated driver, all because of the actions of this officer. It could have hit ten more people.
My God the blinders are on tight.
He did not take a shot at her until she was right up on him and he had to move out of the way after getting hit.
Is there some liberal AI video that shows something totally different than reality?
Any video you can provide will not prove either of us are right. The dead “reckless driver” was found with a bullet in her head. Do the math - you have no case. Again, it could have mowed down others as well. He was wrong and has no place being in that position.
I said she brushed him enough to muss his pants. I dont think even that is completely clear, but I am willing agree to that.
She didnt hit him. He had time to move out of the way, and did. Someone on crutches might not have had time to move out of the way, but he did, and he did move out of the way. After a "near miss" he thought that was a good time to put two more bullets in her head as she was "driving" away.
No. I can't get into Facebook from my work laptop.
Bad optics
Every part of government is supposed to be accountable to the people, but this administration runs from accountability in every instance.
These "state officials" dropped the ball on immigration and the rampant fraud in their city / state so why include them in this?
Saw the chief of non-police for Minneapolis on the TV today. Laine of the day "No we weren't there before the shooting occurred" Well thanks for nothing you lazy POS, maybe if you had been there this wouldn't have occurred because your lazy ass may have been able to do a little crowd control. what a fucking piece of shit.
Too bad Ms Good was killed, you could have helped Ross to reload and taken out the armed alien stuffies 'n toys hidin' in the glove compartment also.
One thing that just come to mind. The Minneapolis police refused to work with ICE. And now they are actually dumb enough to be crying that they are not being included in the investigation.
Kristie Noem needs to be impeached today. Her incompetence is off the chart. More to follow.
She basically said at a press conference today that the woman was killed because ICE was having a bad day since they had met with protests and disruptions in the previous hours.
The video clearly shows the ICE agent was standing to the left of the car while the car's wheels were turned to the right. The ICE agent's feet were positioned away from the car. The ICE agent was not within the zone of danger. No ICE agent was hit by the car. The first shot was into the windshield and the following shots were into the open driver's side window. The video also shows that after the car crashed, the ICE agents present did not approach the car to render aid, except the shooter who, after some delay, slowly approaches the car then turns away and shouts for an ambulance to be called. Almost immediately after that, the ICE agents, including the shooter, get in their car and drive away, thus corrupting the scene of a criminal event. Any claim to the contrary is a LIE. On top of all that, unsurprisingly, the Trumpist regime now appears to be engaged in a cover up.