Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The Minnesota agency set up to probe use of force incidents said Thursday that the FBI has pushed it out of the investigation of an immigration officer's fatal shooting of a woman at a protest.
Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said the agency's Force Investigations Unit was initially set to carry out a joint investigation of the Wednesday shooting along with the FBI. This was decided Wednesday after a meeting between the U.S. Attorney's Office, the FBI and the Hennepin County Attorney's Office.
"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 in a statement.
He said because the bureau can't have full access to evidence and other information collected, it has withdrawn from the investigation.
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