Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee say they know why the FBI director ordered agents to stop investigating Renee Good’s murder.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee say they know why the FBI director ordered agents to stop investigating Renee Good’s murder.Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have come forward with an explanation for FBI Director Kash Patel’s decision to order agents to, the Democratic senators cited a “credible whistleblower” who said, “FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a ‘victim’ in the warrant.
”“As you know, it is standard procedure for federal prosecutors and the FBI to conduct a use-of-force investigation when a law enforcement officer kills or injures someone, especially in cases of immense public scrutiny such as this one,” the pair wrote in a“In light of these press reports, credible whistleblower information received by the Committee, and the mass resignation of career prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota, we request that DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility investigate the end of the civil rights probe into Ms. Good’s death, including who ordered the closure of the investigation and why,” the letter continued. A demonstrator holds a sign with a photo of Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot by an ICE officer.from the Senate Judiciary Democrats said that “Kash Patel wanted to falsely spin Renee Good as a threat to law enforcement,” attaching a screenshot of a paragraph containing a whistleblower’s account of the closure of the FBI investigation. According to the whistleblower, “FBI Director Patel wanted the warrant not to include language referencing Good as the victim but instead to portray her as the subject of an investigation into the assault of a federal law enforcement officer.”last month revealed that agents who were preparing to examine blood spatter and bullet holes in Good’s SUV received orders to stop from senior officials, including Patel himself, who were concerned that a civil rights investigation would contradict President Donald Trump’s claim that Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who shot and killed her—a claimThe Times report details alternative approaches suggested by the Department of Justice, including suggesting prosecutors ask a judge to sign a new warrant that would allow them to investigate whetherresigning from the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, as well as one supervisor in the FBI’s Minneapolis field office whoGood, a 37-year old mother of three and U.S. citizen who lived in Minneapolis, was fatally shot by Ross on Jan. 7 amid the Trump administration’s continued immigration crackdown and subsequent counter-protests in the city.in January that the DOJ would not be opening a criminal investigation into Ross for his role in Good’s death. Local officials have expressed concern that the lack of an investigation will only deepen public distrust, with Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara telling the, “This is potentially destroying all of the progress that we have made, working together between local and federal law enforcement officials in a very coordinated way, to actually go after the worst of the worst.” Chris Madel, a Minnesota defense attorney who advised Ross following the shooting, also supported an investigation, telling the Times, “In the absence of an independent use-of-force investigation, you lead the public to believe that there must be something to hide.”
Immigration-And-Customs-Enforcement Kash-Patel Fbi Minneapolis Minnesota Department-Of-Justice
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
John Oliver Skewers Keystone Kash and His Singer GirlfriendThe late night host said the FBI director is a “deeply weird man.”
Read more »
Keystone Kash Is MIA After Issuing Grave Terror WarningTrump’s FBI chief cranked up public anxiety, then vanished.
Read more »
Nancy Guthrie Update: Ex-FBI Agent Gives Reason It Won’t Become 'Cold Case'Nancy Guthrie, 84, has been missing for more than a month. Authorities believe she was kidnapped from her home near Tucson.
Read more »
Reality TV star pleads not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of rape, sex crimesA reality TV personality who appeared on a series about swingers is facing a sweeping list of alleged child and animal sex crimes.
Read more »
The hilarious reason the 'Scrubs' cast felt old while filming the rebootThe “Scrubs” cast may feel young on the inside, but they all got a reminder of just how old they are while filming the recently premiered reboot.
Read more »
Keystone Kash Patel Fired Iran Experts Just Days Before Trump’s WarThe FBI director’s revenge cull decimated a global espionage unit.
Read more »