The Department of Justice has said it doesn’t want to analyze an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s killing of Renee Good, however a NCS authorized professional known as that conclusion “inexcusable.”
“You investigate essentially any time a police officer uses lethal force. There’s a long history of DOJ investigating excessive uses of force by local and federal police officers,” NCS authorized analyst Elie Honig mentioned Monday. “I think it’s inexcusable. I think it’s the opposite of the way the Justice Department ordinarily does its business.”
US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the Justice Department’s choice to not examine throughout a tv look on Sunday.
“We don’t just go out and investigate every time an officer is forced to defend himself against somebody; we investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate. And that is not the case here,” Blanche mentioned.
Honig says that’s inaccurate.
“Todd Blanche seems to be on this campaign to justify closing the book before it’s even opened,” Honig instructed NCS’s Kate Bolduan.
The Justice Department has blocked Minnesota officials from investigating Good’s demise.
Federal officers have cited cellphone video recorded by the agent who shot and killed Good to justify his actions.
“Without even judging it. You can look at that video and say, well, it’s a close enough call that they need to investigate,” Honig mentioned.
A full investigation would additionally take into account many elements past the video, in keeping with Honig.
“There’s more information we need than what is in the video. We need to know, for example, the ballistics, how many shots were fired, which shot was the fatal shot?” He mentioned. “We need to know the speed of the car, the angles, all of those things you would get in an investigation are extremely relevant to a determination of whether you would bring charges.”