Minnesota officials say the Trump administration has cut them out of an investigation into the ICE killing.
Minnesota officials said Thursday that the Trump administration has barred them from assisting in the investigation into an ICE agent’s killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, marking an extreme step in the GOP’s seeming all-out efforts to prevent accountability for the shooter.
The head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the state’s investigations agency, said that federal officials are barring the office from accessing any evidence necessary to investigate the killing.
Despite initially agreeing to conduct the investigation jointly with the BCA on Wednesday morning, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and FBI changed course that afternoon. As the Trump administration was furiously spinning lies about the shooting, the BCA was informed that the FBI would assume sole responsibility for the probe.
