Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good's Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

Hours after an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good inside her S.U.V. on a Minneapolis street last month, a senior federal prosecutor in Minnesota sought a warrant to search the vehicle for evidence in what he expected would be a standard civil rights investigation into the agent’s use of force.

The prosecutor, Joseph H. Thompson, wrote in an email to colleagues that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a state agency that specializes in investigating police shootings, would team up with the F.B.I. to determine whether the shooting had been justified and lawful or had violated Ms. Good’s civil rights.

But later that week, as F.B.I. agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good’s S.U.V., they received orders to stop, according to several people with knowledge of the events who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The orders, they said, came from senior officials, including Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, several of whom worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation — by using a warrant obtained on that basis — would contradict President Trump’s claim that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who fired at her as she drove her vehicle.

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[multigraincracker]

1. With holding evidence is corruption.

Makes a good civil case for the family to pursue.
Sometimes civil penalties are greater than criminal penalties to the perpetrators. I’d love to be on that jury.
The FBI, like all other Law Enforcement are corrupted to some extent. The buck always stops at the elected officials that oversee that department. When the tax payers feel the pain, justice will prevail.

[AZLD4Candidate]

2. You have too much faith in the American voter and taxpayer.

Since Reagan's influence, most people only care about themselves. "What's in it for me" was the mantra of the 1980s and it's been carried to its extreme since. Until there is monumental shift to actually caring about people even if it doesn't affect you personally, we will continue to be an narcissistic, nihilistic, psychopathic society. My evidence is the 20 somethings of today who seem to only care about influencers on social media (I'm not going into how that has destroyed empathy and caring in the world) only caring about their own clicks and followers and people living in their own safe space echo chamber.

[J_William_Ryan]

3. "spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly."

This is why it’s pointless to confront Trump Cult members with facts and the truth about the criminal Trump regime.

[Fla Dem]

4. Whether she was the instigator or not (she wasn't), all evidence should have been collected and saved.

Miscarriage of justice.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Kash Patel, a podcaster selected because of his fierce loyalty to the President, told FBI agents not to investigate.

Immunity? Impunity? Does it matter?

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Don Moynihan
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Kash Patel, a podcaster selected because of his fierce loyalty to the President, told FBI agents not to investigate the details on Renee Good's shooting because it would contradict the President. Fact matter less than the King's opinion in a personalist regime.

But later that week, as F.B.I. agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good’s S.U.V., they received orders to stop, according to several people with knowledge of the events who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The orders, they said, came from senior officials, including Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, several of whom worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation — by using a warrant obtained on that basis — would contradict President Trump’s claim that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who fired at her as she drove her vehicle.
ALT
11:49 AM · Feb 7, 2026

Kash Patel, a podcaster selected because of his fierce loyalty to the President, told FBI agents not to investigate the details on Renee Good's shooting because it would contradict the President. Fact matter less than the King's opinion in a personalist regime.

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2026-02-07T16:49:14.323Z

[BaronChocula]

6. Who has the vehicle?

That's what I'm wondering. Did Patel have it spirited away? Do Hennepin Co. investigators have access to it?