Mary Moriarty

And I think the truth of it is it would not be okay, but it is okay for this administration.

So what people should know about it is that contrary to what the administration keeps saying is there is nothing such as absolute immunity.

That is not a thing.

If an ICE agent violates our criminal laws under state law, we do have jurisdiction to charge.

So I think that that's really important because the administration keeps repeating this lie about the fact that they have absolute immunity.

They do not.

Now, when a Minnesota police officer takes the life of a community member, our BCA, that Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, steps in by law.

They do a complete and thorough investigation.

They don't make recommendations, but they submit the investigation to the county attorney.

We're called county attorneys in Minnesota, by the way.

Everybody else calls us DAs.

But they hand it over to the county attorney, and then we decide, after looking at it and applying the law, is our charges appropriate or not?

And an important thing here in Minnesota, and I think across the country, is that the BCA's investigation, once the case is all done, is public.

They actually post it.

So people can go online and they can see exactly what the investigation showed.

And when we take a look at these types of cases, we are very transparent about what our decision is and why we made the decision.

And I think that that's appropriate.

How else do people in this country respect and trust a government unless they're being transparent?

So, you know, the federal government did take the car, the gun, shell casings.

But this is not a case about how she died.