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Minneapolis mayor says there`s a `deep mistrust` of federal investigation into ICE shooting
Mayor Jacob Frey said he didn`t have preconceived notions about the outcome of an investigation but accused federal officials of saying things that are "not true."
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Sunday called for the federal government to allow state agencies to help investigate an ICE officer`s fatal shooting of a woman in his city last week, citing a "deep mistrust" of federal agencies in Minnesota. Asked by "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker if he would accept the results of an FBI investigation of the incident, Frey said, "If it was an FBI investigation that was done jointly with an investigation from the [Minnesota] Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, we could have some trust that there were entities and individuals at the table that were properly reviewing the evidence." The mayor said he didn`t have preconceived notions about what conclusion an investigation by any agency would reach, but "there is deep mistrust" of federal agencies in Minnesota, "because so many of the things that we are hearing are not true." His comments come days after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Federal officials, including President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, have claimed that Good was driving her car at ICE agents, intent on ramming into them. Local officials, including Frey, have said that she was just trying to leave the scene and that no ICE officers were in harm`s way at the time of the shooting. "The ICE agent was not run over, as Trump stated," Frey said Sunday. "You had a person that was definitively trying to just get out of there. They were trying to leave the scene." The mayor pointed to multiple publicly available videos of the shooting, including a cellphone video taken by the officer who shot Good. "You don`t need to take my word for it. You don`t need to take their word for it. Watch the video," Frey said. On Thursday, a spokesperson for the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said the agency was informed by federal investigators that it "would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation." Asked by reporters about the decision to freeze the state out of the probe, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that state investigators were "not doing their work" following the shooting. Like Frey, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz last week said he had doubts about the federal government`s investigation, telling reporters, "It feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome." Walz added that he felt that way "because people in positions of power have already passed judgment, from the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem." The governor accused federal officials of lying, saying they "have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate."
On Sunday, Frey also blamed federal officials for publicly passing judgment too quickly. He said involving state agencies in the probe wouldn`t necessarily lead to criminal charges against the ICE officer, but would lead to a fair, impartial investigation. "Let`s have the investigation in the hands of someone that isn`t biased. Let`s not have it exclusively run through the FBI at the federal government or the Department of Justice. Let`s have it with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension at the state level," the mayor told "Meet the Press." "This is an entity that has expertise. They have a long history of investigating cases just like this, and they have had investigations come, by the way, to both conclusions: with a charge and without a charge," he added. Frey blamed federal officials for building "a narrative that had jumped to the conclusion right from the get-go." "When you`ve got a federal administration that is so quick to jump on a narrative as opposed to the truth, I think we all need to be speaking out," he added.
Frey also spoke to Welker about whether he has any responsibility to help lower the temperature in his community when it comes to tension between federal agents and community members, who participated in peaceful protests against ICE en masse last week. Frey on Wednesday told ICE agents to "get the f-- out of our city." "Of course, I bear responsibility to bring down the temperature. That`s part of my role as mayor," he told Welker, before placing the majority of the blame for rising tensions on federal officials. "To those that are offended, I`m sorry I offended their delicate ears. But as far as who inflamed the situation, you know, I dropped an f-bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here, not the f-bomb," Frey said.
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