US EditionFBI's Patel Allegedly Blocked Civil Rights Probe into ICE Shooting
FBI Director Kash Patel halted the civil rights probe into Renee Good's shooting, prompting resignations and a staffing crisis in Minnesota's U.S. attorney's office, officials said.
- Saturday, the New York Times reported FBI Director Kash Patel ordered agents to halt a warrant to examine Renee Good's S.U.V., fearing it would contradict President Donald Trump's claim she `violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer`.
- After the shooting, Department of Justice officials proposed reframing the inquiry as a criminal probe into whether Good assaulted the agent and blocked the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from participating.
- Autopsy results show Good was shot at least three times, but local officials and witnesses disputed the federal narrative, noting she had turned her wheel away before driving off last month.
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Despite the investigation into the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, federal prosecutors were never allowed to conduct an investigation into the car in which she was killed. High-ranking politicians within the Trump administration ordered the investigation to be closed, sources told the New York Times.
Renee Good: The Tragedy and Investigation
MINNEAPOLIS — Hours after an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good inside her SUV on a Minneapolis street last month, a senior federal prosecutor in Minnesota sought a warrant to search the vehicle for evidence in what he expected would be a standard civil rights investigation into the agent’s use of force. The prosecutor, Joseph H. Thompson, wrote in an email to colleagues that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a state agency t…
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