Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is participating in a multi-department investigation into the shooting death of Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed in Minneapolis last week by two Border Patrol agents.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would not discuss the scope of the investigation and didn't formally call it a civil rights investigation. He said the division will work with the FBI and a division of the Department of Homeland Security on the investigation.
"I don't want the takeaway to be that there's some massive civil rights investigation that's happening," Blanche said Friday. "This is what I would describe as a standard investigation by the FBI when there's circumstances like what we saw last Saturday, and that that investigation, to the extent it needs to involve lawyers at the Civil Rights Division, it will involve those."
The FBI announced earlier Friday that it would lead the investigation into the shooting with the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security supporting it, CBS reported that DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.
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