"A federal magistrate judge rejected that warrant, noting that Good was already dead and could not be considered a suspect for a warrant. It was widely reported that the Justice Department chose not to investigate the ICE officer who shot and killed Good, but the details about how top Justice officials directed the altering of the investigation and search warrant and how it was rejected as weak by a federal judge have not been previously reported."
"After Good was killed on Jan. 7, FBI agents drafted a search warrant to obtain her car to reconstruct the path of bullets that an ICE officer shot into the vehicle. But they were instructed to redraft their warrant and change the subject of the investigation from a civil rights probe to an investigation into a suspected assault on an officer, the people said."
"It's extremely rare for judges to reject federal prosecutors' requests for search warrants, as the standard for evidence needed to grant one is low. Prosecutors and investigators need to only show probable cause that they will find evidence of a crime in the location they wish to search. The news comes as protests in Minneapolis over the killing and the ICE operation continue."
Renee Good was shot and killed on Jan. 7 by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent identified as Jonathan Ross during a contested Minneapolis incident captured on camera. FBI agents drafted a warrant to seize Good's car to reconstruct bullet paths, but were instructed to redraft the warrant and reframe the probe from a civil-rights investigation to a suspected assault on an officer. A federal magistrate rejected the revised warrant, noting Good's death precluded treating her as a suspect and deeming the document weak. The Justice Department initially declined to investigate the ICE officer. Protests over the killing and ICE operation continue.
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