Minnesota officials blocked from investigating Renee Good's death by feds.

2 months ago7 min read

The federal government is actively blocking Minnesota officials from investigating the death of Renee Good, a protester shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. This obstruction is not a bureaucratic delay but a deliberate stonewall, with the FBI seizing critical evidence—bullet casings, Good’s car—and refusing to share it with state prosecutors.It’s a move that leaves a family in the dark and a community, still raw from the killing of George Floyd five years ago, bracing for more. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division declined to even open a case, a decision Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defended on Fox News by suggesting the officer was forced to defend himself.Meanwhile, the Trump administration has doubled down, using the tragedy as a pretext to launch criminal probes into Minnesota Democrats and brand the city a lawless ‘sanctuary. ’ State Attorney General Keith Ellison pushes back hard, arguing Minneapolis’s ‘separation ordinance’ is being mischaracterized; local law doesn’t block ICE from jails, it simply refuses to detain people beyond court orders for immigration violations.The political theater, Ellison notes, mirrors the ‘defund the police’ branding war of 2020, where nuance was lost to sloganeering. But the stakes are higher now.Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act—deploying active-duty troops to city streets—is being treated as a serious test case, a promise of retribution made real. For Ellison, a potential gubernatorial candidate, the pressure is immense.He denies any slow-walking of fraud investigations in the Somali American community, dismissing the administration’s armed surge as political theater masquerading as law enforcement. ‘He’s not sending accountants,’ Ellison said of Trump.‘He’s sending aggressive men with guns. ’ The message is clear: Minnesota, with its progressive politics and history of protest, is a target. The question hanging over the Twin Cities is no longer just about accountability for one death, but how far federal power will go to silence dissent.

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#ICE shooting

#federal investigation

#sanctuary city

#Trump administration

#Keith Ellison

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