Only Minnesota can bring justice for Alex Pretti and Renee Good now 

It has been seven weeks since the killing of Alex Pretti, and state officials are at a loss as to how to proceed. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty can’t get the federal government to cooperate with her investigation. Denied access to crime scenes and kicked off joint investigations, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension — the state agency which would normally investigate police shootings — is apparently stymied. 

We are used to seeing comically thorough investigations of police shootings. In a typical investigation, the crime scene is instantly preserved and subjected to a meticulous forensic examination. There is never any doubt who was involved, and the suspects themselves will participate in the investigation, at least initially. The investigation is conducted rigorously and without bias.

In the vast majority of these incidents, there is never any question what happened. The only questions are about why it happened and whether the officer behaved reasonably under the circumstances.

We’re not going to get that in the Renee Good and Alex Pretti shootings.  

Kristi Noem’s ridiculous insistence that the victims in both cases were “domestic terrorists” makes a credible federal investigation impossible. That’s assuming that the federal government and the Department of Homeland Security have any interest in conducting a proper investigation, which they do not appear to. Multiple members of the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney’s Office have already resigned in protest.

In the wake of the widespread shock and anger over the Pretti........

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