DOJ Tried To Bring Charges Against Renee Good Instead Of Ross
Chris Hayes interviews Carol Leonnig about her story that DOJ tried to bring criminal charges against Renee Good after her death.
"I think it's really important because Americans are calling me and our fellow MS NOW reporters constantly with tips and suggestions about what's happening in Minnesota," she said.
She pointed out that sources are taking some great risks inside government "because this is making them livid and sort of disgusted with their government. And I'm quoting them about that. I'm not a partisan. I just want to emphasize, I think it's really important to focus on Minnesota because the whole world is looking at what's going on here."
She spent a week trying to nail down the story of what happened to the Renee Good investigation, "what happened when an FBI agent tried to open a civil rights investigation in the hours and days after she had been killed while unarmed and trying to pull away from officers who tried to detain her."
Agents in Minneapolis did what they would normally do in this kind of shooting with a federal officer of an unarmed civilian, she said. "They began to open up an investigation into the shooting. They wanted to get a search warrant for her car, which had been taken away from the scene because they wanted to reconstruct the ballistics for a civil rights investigation of the officer. It doesn't mean the officer did something wrong. It means that when a federal officer shoots and kills somebody, we look into it to make sure that the use of deadly force was appropriate."