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

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html

https://archive.ph/eYIVS

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.
By Ernesto Londoño
Feb. 7, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET

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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[orangecrush]

1. Kick

[Lovie777]

2. ..................

[Turbineguy]

3. No statute of limitations on murder.

[mysteryowl]

4. So why the cover up for Jonathon Ross, the murderer?

[malaise]

5. The cover up is bigger than that

Goes all the way to the top

[mysteryowl]

6. I realize, but why protect Jonathan Ross, the murderer?

Is it because he is white?

[malaise]

7. Why did their leader pardon the J6

insurrectionists?

to do more nefarious jobs.

[barbtries]

9. it's because he's their tool

the 2 who murdered Alex Pretti are Latinos. they're being protected as well.

[Amaryllis]

13. THey aren't trying to protect him in particular. THey are just trying to protect/project the narrative they want to spin

[leftstreet]

8. DURec

[progressoid]

10. k/r

[maspaha]

11. Anybody surprised?

[pandr32]

12. "...with liberty and justice for all!"

Do we take those words out of the Pledge of Allegiance now? We should no longer have to recite this.

[dalton99a]

14. +1. And the asshole took an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States"

He shredded it to a zillion pieces

[pandr32]

15. He did.

He goes through the motions without understanding any of it. He is a psychopath.

[flvegan]

16. That article was a good read. Thanks for posting. n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. 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
‪@donmoyn.bsky.social‬

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