😡 State of Minnesota Says Trump Administration is Blocking Their Investigation Into the Murder of Renee Nicole Good

Minnesota says the FBI and U.S. Attorney cut them off from evidence. This is how impunity works.

A woman is dead in Minneapolis because ICE officers created a crisis out of thin air and used lethal force for no reason whatsoever. Now, the very federal government that killed her is tightening its grip on the evidence and blocking Minnesota from investigating the shooting the way state law and basic decency demand.

This is not just frustrating. It’s infuriating. And it is completely predictable.

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Now let’s name what just happened.

First they killed her. Then they controlled the narrative. Now they’re controlling the investigation.

Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She was 37 years old, a poet, a mother, and an American citizen. She was killed on a residential street in her own neighborhood during a chaotic ICE operation that local and state leaders already said was reckless and inflammatory.

Videos spread immediately. So did propaganda.

The Department of Homeland Security tried to label her an “act of domestic terrorism.” They claimed she “weaponized her vehicle.” The president of the United States boosted that story. But Minnesota’s top elected officials—people who say they watched the same video the rest of us watched—called it what it looked like: a garbage narrative, propaganda, and “bullshit.”

The mayor of Minneapolis said it plainly: this was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying.

Now we’ve reached the next stage of the script: the stage where the federal government stops trying to win the argument and starts trying to own the process.

A new report says Minnesota investigators have hit a wall because the FBI refused a joint investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s office barred the state from participating—meaning Minnesota no longer has access to key case materials, scene evidence, or investigative interviews needed to conduct a thorough independent probe.

If you want to understand what “impunity” looks like in the United States, it looks like this:

Federal agents kill someone. Federal officials control the narrative. Then federal prosecutors and the FBI block the state from accessing the evidence.

That is not transparency. That is not accountability. That is not justice.

That is a cover story turning into a cover-up.

Minnesota is saying: we can’t do our job because the feds won’t let us

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s superintendent said the plan initially was a joint investigation with the FBI. Then the FBI later informed the BCA that the U.S. Attorney’s office changed the plan—making the FBI the sole lead and cutting the state out of evidence, interviews, and materials.

The superintendent’s statement is the part that should make every American—no matter your politics—shake with anger: without complete access, Minnesota says it cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands, and therefore it is withdrawing.

Read that again. The state is telling you, on the record, it cannot meet its investigative standards because federal authorities won’t share the evidence.

That’s not a procedural dispute. That’s a structural conflict of interest.

Because what the federal government is effectively saying is: we will investigate ourselves.

And if you’ve ever watched a single pattern of state violence in America—police shootings, federal raids, “internal reviews,” “we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong”—you already know what that means.

It means the system closes ranks.

I’ve studied over 750 police shootings. This sequence is familiar.

I’m going to speak as plainly as I can.

I’ve studied over 750 police shootings in depth. I know the difference between an unavoidable threat and an avoidable, manufactured crisis created by bad tactics and panic.

Everything about the Renee Good shooting screamed avoidable.

The video shows the entire encounter compress into seconds—agents shouting, reaching for her door, inserting themselves into the driver’s space, an officer positioning at the front of the vehicle, and shots fired almost immediately as she moves. That is the kind of situation trained professionals are supposed to prevent, not create.

If you fear a car, you don’t stand in front of it.
If you fear escalation, you don’t reach into the driver’s space.
If you want safety, you create distance and time, not chaos and contact.

In my experience, when someone dies in a scenario like that, the real story is not “she forced them.” The real story is: they chose escalation over de-escalation.

And now, instead of opening the evidence to independent scrutiny, federal authorities are restricting access.

Again: predictable.

This isn’t only about Renee. This is about what ICE is becoming.

This killing did not happen in a vacuum. It happened amid an increasingly militarized posture—surges, raids, intimidation, and operations designed to produce fear, headlines, and conflict.

Governor Walz said it best earlier: this is governance designed to generate fear and conflict. And now someone is dead.

This is what happens when an agency that already operates with enormous discretion is allowed to move like an occupying force inside U.S. cities.

And I need you to sit with an uncomfortable truth: the same abuse and overreach immigrant communities have been warning about for years is now hitting people the country rarely imagines as “targets.”

A white American citizen. A mother. A poet.

Her death doesn’t become more tragic because she’s white. But America’s attention should be ashamed it often takes a death like this to register what immigrant families have been telling us: this agency has been acting with a dangerous sense of entitlement, and it’s escalating.

The propaganda told on itself. The investigation shutdown tells on the system.

Let’s be clear about what is happening here.

First, DHS leaders and the president immediately labeled her actions “domestic terrorism” and pushed a story of attempted murder of law enforcement—before any investigation.

Then Minnesota’s leadership watched the same footage and publicly contradicted that narrative.

Now, with the narrative collapsing, federal authorities are restricting who gets to investigate and who gets access to the evidence.

That is how power behaves when it’s losing credibility.

If the shooting was so clearly justified, why fear independent review?

If the federal story is so obviously true, why block the state’s access to the evidence?

If the video supports the federal narrative, why treat the evidence like contraband?

The answer is the same one Americans have learned over generations: because this system depends on control, not truth.

Control the story. Control the timeline. Control the evidence. Control the process. Then announce a conclusion.

This is why so many Americans don’t trust “internal investigations”

We’ve watched this pattern across the country for decades.

Someone dies. Officials call it “self-defense.” A video emerges. Officials claim “context.” Then the investigation disappears into a black box. Months later, we get a statement. No accountability. No consequences.

And everyone is told to move on.

But the family doesn’t move on.

The partner doesn’t move on.

The children don’t move on.

And the rest of us shouldn’t either.

Renee’s mother described her as compassionate and kind. Another clip, widely shared, shows a distraught partner screaming about being new in the city and having a child. The human trauma is not “collateral.” It’s the whole story.

A woman is dead, and the federal government is acting like it has the right to lock the state out of finding the truth.

That’s not just unethical. It’s anti-democratic.

What should happen now

At minimum, there should be full transparency.

Every relevant video angle should be released in full, unedited form.
Every officer involved should be identified publicly.
Every command decision should be documented.
Every medical response decision should be disclosed.
Every investigative step should be auditable.

And Minnesota should not be blocked from fulfilling its responsibilities to its own people.

If the federal government insists on leading, the state must still have full access. Period. Anything less is the fox guarding the henhouse, and everyone knows it.

This is the America we’re becoming if we accept it

Family, I don’t want to overstate it, but I’m not going to understate it either.

When federal agencies can kill a civilian, call it “terrorism,” and then restrict independent investigation, we are watching the infrastructure of accountability collapse. We are watching the logic of unchecked power take root here at home.

And if you think unchecked power stops once it has swallowed a single victim, you don’t understand power.

Unchecked power expands. Unchecked power grows hungry. Unchecked power needs new targets.

That’s why Renee’s death matters. Not only as a tragedy. As a warning.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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