"the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a state agency that specializes in investigating police shootings, would team up with the FBI to determine whether the shooting had been justified and lawful or had violated Ms. Good's civil rights. But later that week, as FBI agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good's SUV, they received orders to stop,"
"The orders, they said, came from senior officials, including Kash Patel, the FBI director, several of whom worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation-by using a warrant obtained on that basis-would contradict President Trump's claim that Ms. Good "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer" who fired at her as she drove her vehicle. Good god. Not only is this unconscionable on its face, it has virtually destroyed the federal prosecutor's office in Minneapolis."
FBI agents prepared to execute a warrant to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good's SUV as part of a potential civil rights inquiry. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension had planned to team with the FBI to determine whether the shooting was justified or violated Ms. Good's civil rights. Senior officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel, ordered agents to stop, citing concern about contradicting President Trump's characterization of the incident. Several career federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, viewing the shift as legally dubious and incendiary, resigned in protest.
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