President Donald Trump's administration has turned over to Minneapolis prosecutors evidence on immigration agents' killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and wounding of a Venezuelan man during deportation sweeps in January, local officials said on Monday.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, the city's lead prosecutor, said that the federal government handed over the "voluminous" evidence in the three shootings after six months of discussions, jurisdictional disputes and a lawsuit.
The material includes videos from agents' body cameras, other digital evidence and Good's bullet-damaged car, Moriarty said at a press conference, thanking federal officials for their willingness to "consider changing course."
"We need cooperation. Our community needs it," she told reporters. "Our democracy requires it."
Moriarty said the evidence was provided after discussions with Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen's officein Minneapolis and the FBI's field office there, neither of which responded to requests for comment on Monday.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Good in her vehicle on Jan. 7, and Border Patrol agents fatally shot Pretti on a street during protests on Jan. 24. Both were U.S. citizens. An ICE agent shot Venezuelan citizen Julio Sosa-Celis in the leg, wounding him, on Jan. 14.
Moriarty's office is still investigating the killings of Pretti and Good, and she has not announced whether she will bring charges under state law against the federal agents who shot them. But she has already brought charges in the Sosa-Celis shooting, indicting ICE agent Christian Castro under Minnesota law with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime.
All three shootings took place during Trump's Operation Metro Surge last winter, in which hundreds of armed immigration agents patrolled Minnesota's cities seeking to capture immigrants for deportation.