By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Kristen Holmes, CNN
Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images via CNN Newsource
Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday's shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the highly unusual move by the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating in the probe.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Thursday that after an initial agreement for the FBI to work with the state agency, as well as prosecutors from the US Attorney's office in Minneapolis and the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, to investigate the shooting, federal authorities reversed course and the FBI blocked the BCA from participating in the investigation.
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