Overview
- Minnesota, which filed the case Tuesday in D.C. federal court, seeks orders compelling the Justice and Homeland Security departments to share evidence and to strike down what it calls a blanket policy of withholding.
- The complaint says the FBI first agreed to a joint probe in Renee Good’s killing, then reversed course the same day, blocked BCA interviews and access to scene materials, and kept Good’s car shrink-wrapped in an FBI facility while telling the state only DHS’s inspector general could get the evidence.
- In Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, state investigators say federal immigration officers physically blocked the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from the scene even after a judge signed a warrant, and agencies have refused to disclose the officers’ names.
- The filing covers three January incidents, including the nonfatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, where two ICE agents were suspended and face a criminal inquiry into whether they lied, which state officials say shows why timely access to records and objects matters.
- State prosecutors argue this breaks long-standing norms for parallel state–federal investigations governed by Touhy rules, raising a federalism fight that could shape whether Minnesota can evaluate charges and how families get answers about the agents’ use of force.