DOJ says 'no basis' for civil rights investigation into Minneapolis ICE officer killing

The Department of Justice (DOJ) volition not prosecute a transgression civilian rights probe into the sidesplitting of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) serviceman successful Minneapolis, a apical section authoritative said Tuesday.

The determination marks a departure from past administrations, which person typically moved rapidly to unfastened Justice Department civilian rights reviews of fatal encounters involving instrumentality enforcement, adjacent erstwhile transgression charges were considered unlikely.

Lawyers with the Civil Rights Division were told past week that they would not beryllium portion of the probe astatine this time, 2 radical acquainted with the substance who spoke connected information of anonymity told The Associated Press.

In enactment with those reports, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday, "There is presently nary ground for a transgression civilian rights investigation."

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The Department of Justice volition not prosecute a transgression civilian rights probe into Renee Good's fatal shooting. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

CNN archetypal reported Blanche’s statement, which did not supply details connected however the DOJ reached its decision that nary probe was warranted.

Federal officials person said that erstwhile Good pulled guardant toward the ICE officer, helium acted successful self-defense and described the driver’s actions arsenic "an enactment of home terrorism."

Still, the DOJ’s determination to support the Civil Rights Division retired of the probe earlier it is implicit has raised concerns astir the Trump administration’s determination to behaviour a afloat reappraisal of the events starring to the shooting.

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The DOJ is breaking from a longstanding precedent of swift civilian rights investigations. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Minnesota officials person claimed national authorities blocked authorities investigators from accessing grounds successful the lawsuit and asserted that the authorities lacks jurisdiction to independently analyse the killing, according to the AP.

"As with immoderate officer-involved shooting, each instrumentality enforcement bureau has an interior probe protocol, including DHS," a DOJ authoritative told Fox News Digital. "As such, ICE OPR has its ain probe underway. This runs parallel to immoderate FBI investigation."

The determination has been followed by a question of departures among national prosecutors progressive successful the case. Roughly fractional a twelve prosecutors successful the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s bureau person resigned successful caller days, on with respective supervisors successful the transgression conception of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division successful Washington, according to radical acquainted with the matter.

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Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has been a vocal professional of the Trump administration.  (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Among those who resigned was First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson, who had been overseeing large fraud prosecutions successful Minnesota, according to 2 radical acquainted with the matter.

The concern drew crisp disapproval from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

"These prosecutors are heroes, and the radical pushing to prosecute Renee’s widow are monsters," Frey wrote Tuesday successful a station connected X. "In their pursuit of cruelty, the medication besides conscionable acceptable backmost the enactment of warring fraud by pushing retired the prosecutors who were moving connected those cases."

The resignations are portion of a broader exodus of vocation Justice Department attorneys amid concerns astir governmental unit and shifting enforcement priorities nether the Trump administration.

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The Justice Department has denied that the resignations were connected to the Minnesota case, saying the prosecutors had requested to enactment successful an aboriginal status programme good earlier the events surrounding the shooting.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.