Ian Millhiser

The federal government apparently is not sharing information with state police, and that's a big red flag.

On top of that, the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch said that he doesn't think a civil rights investigation into the shooting itself is warranted.

And on top of that,

Six prosecutors in the U.S.

attorney's office in Minnesota resigned in protest because apparently the U.S.

attorney wanted the investigation to focus on Becca Good, the wife of the victim.

So.

You know, it really looks like this federal investigation is not just a sham, but potentially something worse because they may be looking to harass the widow here.

And that leaves open the question of whether the state government is able is going to be able to conduct a thorough investigation without federal cooperation.

Minnesota itself seems to be, you know, indicating that it wants to conduct an investigation.

But it's unclear just how effective the state's investigation is going to be if the feds will not cooperate.

So we have two investigations, one of which may not be a serious investigation, and the other one may be state police trying to investigate with both arms tied behind their backs.

He needs to go back to law school if he thinks that that's the appropriate term.

So absolute immunity is a term that is used in civil lawsuits, so not in criminal investigation, like when you have a private party suing another person typically for money.

The Supreme Court has said that three classes of individuals have absolute immunity from those suits.

None of them are law enforcement.

Those three classes of individuals are the sitting president, judges, and prosecutors.

Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who shot Rene Good, is neither the president of the United States, a judge, or a prosecutor.

So absolute immunity does not apply to him.

There are some doctrines that apply to criminal investigations.