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State investigators say they've launched a separate independent probe into the use of force in that case, but...
Either way, the news of that shooting spread pretty quickly Wednesday night and intensified those protests with scuffles breaking out, scenes of vandalism in some case, clouds of tear gas and pepper spray.
Yeah, so the Insurrection Act gives the president authority to deploy U.S.
troops domestically.
And the way the law is written, that's supposed to be used to suppress rebellions, civil unrest, or used when federal laws are being obstructed.
And so the law has been revoked about 30 times since the late 1700s.
The most recent time it was invoked was in 1992 during the riots in Los Angeles.
And Trump has a history of musing about invoking the Insurrection Act.
He has since he's returned to office last year.
And he's also spoke about using it in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
Yeah, so state and local officials from Tim Waltz to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry have repeatedly called for ICE to leave the area.
They call what's happening a federal invasion, accuse agents of trouncing on people's rights and unlawful seizures.
The state actually filed a lawsuit this week seeking to halt the immigration operations in Minnesota.
A judge
declined to issue an immediate restraining order that would stop the ongoing enforcement.
But the Department of Homeland Security has until Monday to respond to the lawsuit.
So we'll see what happens there and whether or not see what the judge decides as far as the ongoing enforcement.
Yeah, so while there's unrest in the streets in Minneapolis and Minnesota more broadly, there's turmoil within the prosecutor's office there.
As you mentioned, reports say that six prosecutors have resigned after they had faced pressure to investigate Good's wife.
There was also disagreement around the DOJ's decision not to investigate Jonathan Ross, the agent who shot Good in her SUV, as well as the handling of the incident.