MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The investigation into the fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration officer in Minneapolis shouldn’t be overseen solely by the federal authorities, two of the state’s main Democrats mentioned Sunday.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith each mentioned in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities must be included within the investigation as a result of the federal authorities has already made clear what it believes happened.
“How can we belief the federal authorities to do an goal, unbiassed investigation, with out prejudice, when firstly of that investigation they’ve already introduced precisely what they noticed — what they assume occurred,” Smith mentioned on ABC’s “This Week.”
The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Renee Good in her automotive, saying he was defending himself and fellow brokers.
Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem deflected questions concerning the moments surrounding the taking pictures throughout an interview with CNN on Sunday and dismissed complaints from Minnesota officers about native businesses being denied any participation within the investigation.
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“We do work with locals once they work with us,” she mentioned, criticizing the Minneapolis mayor and others for not aiding Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
Frey and Noem every pointed fingers on the different for his or her rhetoric after Renee Good’s killing, and every pushed their very own agency conclusions about what video of the incident reveals. The mayor stood by his assertions that movies present “a federal agent recklessly abusing energy that ended up in any person’s dying.”
“Let’s have the investigation within the palms of somebody that isn’t biased,” Frey mentioned on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The killing of Good on Wednesday by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal brokers in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests throughout the nation over the weekend.
Trump administration officers have mentioned each shootings have been acts of self-defense in opposition to drivers who “weaponized” their automobiles to assault officers.
Hundreds of individuals marched in Minneapolis on Saturday the place Homeland Safety known as its deployment of immigration officers within the Twin Cities its biggest ever immigration enforcement operation.
