Minnesota Investigators Can't Access Evidence, Says FBI Won't Work With Them
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“Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands," Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said.

The head of Minnesota’s state investigations agency said Thursday that the U.S. attorney’s office has barred it from taking part in the investigation into an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman.

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said in a statement that after the agency consulted with the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, the U.S. attorney’s office and the FBI following the Wednesday shooting of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Nicole Macklin Good, “it was decided that the BCA Force Investigations Unit would conduct a joint investigation with the FBI” and that the “BCA responded promptly to the scene and began coordinating investigative work in good faith.

He said the FBI informed the BCA later Wednesday that the U.S. attorney’s office had changed the plan.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This is obstruction of justice. They are preventing state level prosecution. My prediction is that they will most likely find that the officer’s conduct was legal and he’ll get off. Or if they attempt to actually pretend they give a shit about the rule of law in the face of public backlash, they’ll charge him knowing Trump will just pardon him. They are stopping the state from getting the evidence necessary to bring their own charges specifically so that they maintain control and the ability to pardon this guy if needed. They have no intention of holding him to account, or letting the state of Minnesota do so, no matter what they find.