"The orders, they said, came from senior officials, including Kash Patel, the F.B.I. 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."
"There's good reason to believe that Greg Bovino took his orders on use of force from Stephen Miller, and Bovino has been in the neighborhood of most of the most problematic uses of force from DHS (he was either on scene at the Good killing, or arrived almost immediately thereafter). And if Miller told Bovino to target protesters, than covering up the shooting of Good would be tantamount to covering up White House complicity in it."
Joseph H. Thompson wrote that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension would team with the FBI to determine whether the shooting that killed Ms. Good was justified, lawful, or a civil rights violation. FBI agents obtained a signed warrant to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good's SUV, but received orders from senior officials to stop. Officials, including Kash Patel, feared a civil-rights probe using that warrant would contradict President Trump's assertion that Ms. Good had run over an ICE officer. Allegations link DHS official Greg Bovino and Stephen Miller to use-of-force direction, and refusing blood-spatter testing could amount to covering up a potential murder implicating the White House.
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