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Christopher Cann

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

State investigators say they've launched a separate independent probe into the use of force in that case, but...

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

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.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

Yeah, so the Insurrection Act gives the president authority to deploy U.S.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

troops domestically.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

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.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

And so the law has been revoked about 30 times since the late 1700s.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

The most recent time it was invoked was in 1992 during the riots in Los Angeles.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

And Trump has a history of musing about invoking the Insurrection Act.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

He has since he's returned to office last year.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

And he's also spoke about using it in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

Yeah, so state and local officials from Tim Waltz to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry have repeatedly called for ICE to leave the area.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

They call what's happening a federal invasion, accuse agents of trouncing on people's rights and unlawful seizures.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

The state actually filed a lawsuit this week seeking to halt the immigration operations in Minnesota.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

A judge

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

declined to issue an immediate restraining order that would stop the ongoing enforcement.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

But the Department of Homeland Security has until Monday to respond to the lawsuit.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

So we'll see what happens there and whether or not see what the judge decides as far as the ongoing enforcement.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

Yeah, so while there's unrest in the streets in Minneapolis and Minnesota more broadly, there's turmoil within the prosecutor's office there.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

As you mentioned, reports say that six prosecutors have resigned after they had faced pressure to investigate Good's wife.

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Renee Good shooting galvanizes protests across the country

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.