Minnesota's state investigations agency said Thursday that the U.S. attorney's office has prevented it from taking part in the investigation into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer's fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman.
The Wednesday shooting of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an unidentified ICE agent in a residential neighborhood drew immediate condemnation from city and state officials who blamed President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement surge for sowing chaos in the city's streets.
"The investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation," Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said in a statement.
It had been decided that the BCA w
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