Aisha Gomez

Well, I mean...

The federal government has just demonstrated over and over again that they cannot be trusted, that they're not interested in the rule of law, that they're not interested in the truth.

I haven't seen the latest propaganda video from DHS.

I don't care to.

I don't believe that it's going to make me mistrust

the evidence that I have seen with my own eyes, that I have heard from the mouths of my just incredibly distressed and traumatized constituents who watched a masked federal agent execute someone in their street in the morning, during the morning commute.

My name is Aisha Gomez.

I serve as the state representative for District 62A, the south side of Minneapolis, where our beloved community member was murdered this week.

Let's listen in.

Seven or eight blocks away from where Renee Good was murdered.

This unit was established after a long process of

looking into what are the best practices when there is an officer involved shooting.

We learned a lot about this in 2020 in Minneapolis, unfortunately.

One of the things that we learned is that if you actually are interested in public safety, if you actually are interested in the legitimacy of a law enforcement force in your community, then you must

be invested in accountability, in transparency, and in fair investigations when bad things happen.

And so that's the question in front of us.

Do we want a legitimate investigation that pulls in the professionals of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension?

who are trained to do this, who have done this over and over, who have the kind of local connections and local legitimacy that the FBI could just never have because they don't have that kind of presence here?

Or are we going to have a discredited farce of an investigation?

And so as a group of elected representatives who are deeply invested