The Increasingly Narrow Path To Prosecuting An ICE Officer
HuffPost
Prosecuting federal agents for any alleged crimes can be tricky work, but it isn’t impossible.
State and local prosecutors in Minnesota investigating the fatal shooting of Renee Good are facing an uphill battle.
On Thursday, the FBI abruptly announced that it would not share evidence it gathered involving Good’s Jan. 7 killing by an ICE officer with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the state agency.
At first, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the FBI were working “jointly” on the probe. But after the FBI closed ranks, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty didn’t mince words about the impact.
With the FBI making itself the “sole investigative agency,” she said in a statement earlier this week, “the State will not receive the investigative findings and our community may never learn about its contents.”
It spells trouble for any path to either answers or accountability in Good’s death, up to and including the potential of prosecution if authorities believe a crime has been committed. To prosecute a crime — any crime — an investigation must be opened first: This probing allows for evidence to be combed through and for prosecutors to decide whether criminal charges should be filed at all.
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Getting a fair outcome from an investigation into the shooting "feels very, very difficult," Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz lamented.
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The state’s attorney general said no matter what federal investigators “come out with, it will be questioned.”
The Fox News host was deemed an "apex predator" for his dismissive description of Renee Good, who leaves behind a 6-year-old son.
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Tom Homan addressed the killing of a Minnesota woman, saying ICE agents face "heightened threat environments every day" and "have a right to self defense."
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