JUST IN: Minnesota Sues Trump Administration Over ICE-Involved Shootings – Walz Says He’s Building Case with Leftist Nonprofits and the UN (VIDEO)
The State of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration in its ongoing attempt to investigate ICE and CBP agents who were involved in shootings during law enforcement activities.
The incidents include the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two crazed leftists who attacked ICE agents, and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a criminal illegal alien who was wounded while attacking ICE agents in northern Minneapolis in January.
Minnesota is suing for evidence and information on the shootings, for which the FBI previously denied state investigators access.
On Thursday, Tim Walz discussed the lawsuit on MSNow, revealing that he is working with the American Civil Liberties Union, pro-immigrant groups, and even the UN to build his case, while accusing the Trump Administration of human rights abuses.
He further trashed President Trump, stating that he will continue fighting for so-called justice until “the final days of this administration and beyond.”
WATCH:
Walz: We’ve always partnered with our federal authorities when needed, and I made the move yesterday, using my executive authority to put a commission together. We are capturing all of the stories. We being the ACLU, a lot of groups, especially immigrant groups, folks at the United Nations and in Geneva are working because what happened in Minnesota and the absolute horrific assault on this state, if this happened in another country— it wasn’t that long ago that the United States was a voice of reason, decency and human rights— We would investigate those things.
We’re going to do that here, and we’re going to capture these stories. And so if Donald Trump, like so many things, thinks he can move on from Greenland, Venezuela, pirate of the war in Iran that he started, till his till the final days of this administration and beyond, Minnesotans will ask for justice. We demand it. We have to do that.
Per Propublica:
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who’d recently moved to Minneapolis, local law enforcement officials requested a partnership with the federal government to investigate the case, as they’d done in past shootings involving federal agents.
This week, prosecutors from Hennepin County and the state of Minnesota took the next step to force the Trump administration’s hand. They filed a federal lawsuit against the departments of Homeland Security and Justice over the evidence in the shootings, an action that Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, whose jurisdiction covers Minneapolis, characterized as “unprecedented in American history.”
The Trump administration has declined to release the names of the agents involved in the shootings, even after the Minnesota Star Tribune and ProPublica identified the officers involved in the Good and Pretti incidents.
“The federal government has refused to cooperate with state law enforcement, which is unique, rare and simply cannot be tolerated,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told reporters. “[We] can’t sit around and let them do it.”
State prosecutors are also potentially weighing charges for the agents involved in shootings. “State prosecutors across the country are going to be watching what happens in Minnesota really closely,” Alicia Bannon, director of the judiciary program at the Brennan Center for Justice, said.
This is a developing story.
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