FBI blocking state from evidence in Minneapolis probe

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said that the FBI’s stance, which came at the behest of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, was a reversal of an initial agreement that the BCA would conduct a joint investigation of Good’s killing with the FBI.

BCA Superintendent Drew Evans also said the agency has “reluctantly withdrawn” from the investigation because of the lack of cooperation from federal officials.

“We expect the FBI to conduct a thorough and complete investigation and that the full investigative file will be shared with the appropriate prosecutorial authorities at both the state and federal levels,” Evans said.

Good was shot by an ICE agent who had positioned himself in front of her SUV as she began driving away from another agent who had grabbed her driver’s side door and reached inside in an apparent attempt to pull her out of it. Good seconds earlier was ordered by an ICE agent to exit the vehicle, which was stopped in the middle of a road that an ICE truck was driving down.

The apparent reversal by federal law enforcement authorities came as the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, has accused Good, a 37-year-old mother, of engaging in domestic terrorism and of intentionally trying to run down ICE agents with her SUV on Wednesday.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other Democrats have blasted those claims, saying that video of the shooting contradicts the narrative being promoted by DHS, Vice President JD Vance, and others.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, speaking at a press conference Thursday, said that BCA has “not been cut out” of the probe.

“They don’t have any jurisdiction in this investigation,” Noem said.

Walz said Thursday, “I think it’s clear to everyone, as they saw this, that it feels now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation.”

“It feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome, and I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment from the president to the vice President to Kristy Noem, have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate,” Walz said at a press conference.

In a statement, Evans said that shortly after Good was shot, the BCA consulted with “the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI.”

“It was decided that the BCA Force Investigations Unit would conduct a joint investigation with the FBI. The BCA responded promptly to the scene and began coordinating investigative work in good faith,” Evans said.

“Later that afternoon, the FBI informed the BCA that the U.S. Attorney’s Office had reversed course: the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation,” Evans said.

“Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands,” he said. “As a result, the BCA has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation.”

Evans also said, “If the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI were to reconsider this approach and express a willingness to resume a joint investigation, the BCA is prepared to reengage in support of our shared goal of public safety in Minnesota.”

— CNBC’s Luke Fountain contributed to this story.