BCA says feds not cooperating in state probe of man shot in the leg by ICE agent
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State investigators say they have not been allowed to speak with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot a man in the leg last week in Minneapolis and they are not getting needed cooperation from the FBI.
The Minneapolis police had asked the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the Jan. 14 shooting outside a house in Minneapolis.
In a statement Thursday, however, the BCA made it clear the federal government was impeding that investigation.
“BCA agents have not been permitted to speak with the federal officer involved in this incident and have not been provided with information, including the officer’s identity or whether the officer was wearing a body camera,” the agency said. “The FBI has communicated that they do not intend to share any results of their initial investigation with BCA agents.”
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The Department of Homeland Security has said that the shooting happened after a vehicle and foot pursuit. DHS alleged that the agent caught up to the man being sought, but then was attacked by two other people wielding a snow shovel and a broom handle — and that during the struggle, the agent shot and wounded “the initial subject” — the man who reportedly led agents on the chase. DHS said the man was wounded, and then ran inside an apartment.
However, two women who were in the north Minneapolis home where the shooting happened have contradicted parts of the DHS narrative.
The BCA in its statement Thursday asked for anyone who captured video of the incident or has other firsthand accounts to send it to the BCA at bca.tips@state.mn.us.
“The BCA investigation will continue to the fullest extent possible while meeting the investigative standards required by Minnesota law,” the agency statement said, adding that it would present its findings to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for review once the investigation is complete.
The BCA has previously acknowledged that the FBI has shut them out of the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Macklin Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis despite an early agreement with the FBI to work jointly on that probe.
— MPR News staff
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