US prosecutors began investigating Renee Good’s killing. Washington told them to stop

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – Hours after an immigration

agent fatally shot Ms Renee Good

inside her sport utility vehicle (SUV) on a Minneapolis street in January, a senior federal prosecutor in Minnesota sought a warrant to search the vehicle. He sought evidence in what he expected would be a standard civil rights investigation into the agent’s use of force.

The prosecutor, Mr Joseph H. Thompson, wrote in an e-mail to colleagues that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a state agency that specialises in investigating police shootings, would team up with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to determine whether the shooting had been justified and lawful or had violated Ms Good’s civil rights.