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but have also said that they've wanted an investigation before reaching conclusions, not being as declarative in their statements.

So over the weekend, when pressed on the administration's earlier statements, Kash Patel and Pam Bonney, for example, they had seemed to suggest that just having a gun at a protest, even if it's concealed and you have a permit, is dangerous and an indication of possibly malintent.

Now, these statements very quickly drew the ire and backlash of many Second Amendment groups, including the NRA.

The Department of Homeland Security said that in response to the state's lawsuit.

said that it's a misreading of the Constitution and called the case an absurdity.

In court yesterday, Kate Menendez, a judge who's overseen that case, she was appointed by President Biden.

She appeared skeptical of the state's argument that the federal government was violating the Constitution.

She had said at one point that, you know, I don't know, talking to one of the lawyers for the state saying, I don't know how you can ask me to identify when the federal government has crossed the line.

So she's not yet issued an order, but one could come at any time.

So in the immediate aftermath of Rene Good's killing, state and local officials immediately called for an independent investigation.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is the state agency that handles these sorts of investigations of officer-involved shootings, they said that they were blocked by the FBI.

And then Kristi Noem came out and said that federal investigators will lead probe and said that the state doesn't have jurisdiction.

The DOJ has since come out and said that they're not investigating the shooting of Renee Goode by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

And this is particularly notable because the DOJ in Trump's first term launched an investigation into the killing of George Floyd, which happened very close to where Renee Goode was shot and killed.

And in recent days after the killing of Alex Preti, the Minnesota Criminal Apprehension Bureau filed a lawsuit saying that federal officials were blocking them from access to the crime scene.

A judge in that case granted the state's request and ordered that the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies don't alter or destroy any evidence.

And yesterday, Tim Walz came out and said that he had spoken with Trump on the phone, called it a productive phone call.

And he said that Trump had agreed to speak with the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that state investigators can independently probe the deadly shooting of Alex Paredes.

Tons of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in recent days to cry, both the shootings of Alex Preddy and the shooting of Renee Goode.

and call for those 3,000 federal agents to leave the state.