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State and local officials say they do not believe investigation into shooting death of Renee Nicole Good will be objective

State and local leaders say they do not believe that the FBI investigation of the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good will be fair and impartial, and are sounding alarms about the impact of federal officials holding onto evidence in a potential prosecution of the ICE agent who killed her.

Minnesota’s lead investigative agency, the bureau of criminal apprehension, initially began investigating the shooting in conjunction with the FBI.

But the BCA issued a statement Thursday morning saying that “the US attorney’s office 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”.

Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty, an elected Democrat and the county’s prosecutor, clarified at a press conference Friday that the BCA – which was established in the wake of the George Floyd case – has a very high investigative standard and that this standard can’t be met when the organization doesn’t have access to all the evidence. It does not preclude an investigation, she said. But a lack of access to evidence hampers the investigation.

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[–] manxu@piefed.social 67 points 2 months ago

Considering that the relevant federal authorities already declared what they consider the facts to be before having looked at the first piece of evidence, I would think that the federal investigation is 99.6% likely to be unfair.

[–] kriz@slrpnk.net 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Of course they are trying to stop prosecution of this officer, but if public pressure is high enough they can always throw him under the bus as a bad apple. But it is important to remember that he is not a bad apple. This is inevitable when you flood the streets with armed thugs with the goal of terrorizing people. ICE needs to be eliminated, don't let them make this about only one of the thugs.

[–] YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I find it ironic when these organizations use the "bad apple" argument. The term comes from the adage, "One bad apple spoils the whole bunch", so if you concede that you have bad apples, you concede that your entire organization is corrupt.

[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Logic is beautiful.

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 2 months ago

‘this officer” = lawless masked thug

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More likely they won't do a damn thing. Throwing even one under the bus will probably do two things: temper the campaign of terror (they want people to be afraid) and create distrust among the loyal footsoldiers. Trump, but mostly Miller, want ICE to look but also feel invincible because they'll be needed in the future to amp up the terror at least 5x when elections close in. The only things that can stop ICE are Trump (won't happen), Congress (won't happen), the courts (not holding my breath), or us.

[–] kriz@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"...fairness..."

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

Most transparent administration ever. We see what you're doing.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why let them take control of the investigation? I'm pretty sure the assailant is a MN native. Arrest him and build the case. He clearly violated operating procedure and plenty of witnesses will testify against him.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The issue is whether he's in MN anymore. I'm sure for "safety reasons" he's out threatening people in TX or Oregon or whatever.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

Put out a warrant for his arrest, and a reward for turning him in. He'll check into some hotel somewhere and the desk clerk will drop a dime on him for the reward. I would. They're only sending these people to Blue states, so that state will probably be cooperative in picking him up and extraditing him, while the Feds HOWL!

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago
[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The title first read to me: Leaders alarmed at how fair the investigation is (I.e. they want it to be unfair)

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Agree. I paused and thought “did they mean unfairness?”

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What I'm reading is that these leaders are alarmed about the fairness of an investigation meanwhile they have thousands of these masked goons running around their streets unchecked which should be the real source of alarm.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gov Walz and Mayor Frey have both been quiet alarmed about the goons since they showed up.

They’re also perfectly capable of multitasking so it’s fine.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Uh, read better.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I'm going to share a little secret with some of y'all. FBI investigations have never exactly been Fair. It's always been a corrupt broken Institution.