Overview
- House Judiciary Committee Democrats asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to deliver records by Feb. 2 on the Alex Pretti investigation and the decision to forgo a civil rights probe into the killing of Renee Nicole Good.
- The House letter alleges federal officials blocked Minnesota authorities from accessing key evidence and redirected investigators to scrutinize Good’s widow rather than the agent who fired.
- Senate Judiciary Democrats pressed the Civil Rights Division to open a civil rights investigation into Good’s death, citing departures by career attorneys, as DOJ leadership maintains there is no basis for such a case.
- Federal Judge Eric Tostrud ordered the government not to destroy or alter evidence from the Jan. 24 shooting of Pretti after state authorities went to court to secure access.
- Reports detail DOJ direction to reframe the initial Good inquiry, a magistrate’s rejection of a warrant that would have named Good as a suspect, the BCA’s exclusion from the scene, and the resignation of FBI supervisor Tracee Mergen over the handling.