Officials in the US state of Minnesota have been blocked from taking part in the investigation into the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an immigration agent.
Renee Nicole Good, a US citizen and mother of three, was killed in a residential neighbourhood of the city of Minneapolis yesterday.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said that it had initially agreed with the FBI to conduct a joint investigation into the shooting.
However, the federal agency had "reversed course" and taken sole control of the inquiry.
Head of the BCA, Superintendent Drew Evans, said that the agency had been barred from taking part.
"The investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence, or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation," Mr Evans said in a statement.
"Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands.
"As a result, the BCA has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation.
"The BCA Force Investigations Unit was designed to ensure consistency, accountability and public confidence, none of which can be achieved without full cooperation and jurisdictional clarity."
Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Democrat, told CNN that the FBI's decision was "deeply disturbing" and state authorities could investigate with or without the cooperation of the federal government.
He added that the evidence he has seen, including some that has not yet been made public, indicates that state charges are a possibility.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem told reporters that the BCA was not "cut out" but did not have jurisdiction.
Minnesota Governor, Democrat Tim Walz, said that any federal investigation that proceeded without state involvement would likely be seen as a "whitewash".
"I say that only because people in positions of power ... from the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem have already passed judgement and told you things that are verifiably false," he said.
The FBI declined to comment on the BCA remarks.
The Office of US Attorney Daniel Rosen, chief federal prosecutor in Minneapolis, did not immediately respond to questions about the statement.
The shooting, by an unidentified Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, drew immediate condemnation from city and state officials who blamed US President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement surge for sowing chaos.
The agent was among 2,000 federal officers deployed to the Minneapolis area in what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described as the "largest DHS operation ever".
About 1,000 demonstrators gathered at a federal building where an immigration court is housed, shouting "shame" and "murder" at armed and masked federal officers, some of whom used tear gas and pepper balls on protesters.
Watch: Eyewitness captures moment ICE agent fatally shot woman
Minnesota and Trump administration officials offered starkly different accounts of the shooting.
US Vice President JD Vance doubled down on the Trump administration's description of the agent shooting in "self-defence," a characterisation disputed by local authorities.
"Ramming an ICE officer with your car, that's what justifies being shot," said Mr Vance, when asked if the attack was justified.
"It's not a good thing, by the way, but when you force somebody to engage in self-defence, it's almost a preposterous question."
Mr Vance also claimed that Ms Good was part of a "broader left-wing network" opposed to ICE.
He said the officer involved had previously been dragged by a vehicle and injured.
"So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile," he added.
The DHS has not responded to questions about the officer's identity.
Officials, including Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, also defended the shooting as self-defence and accused the woman of trying to ram agents in an act of "domestic terrorism".
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, called that assertion "bullsh*t" and "garbage" based on bystander videos of the shooting that appeared to contradict the government's account.
The footage shows two masked officers approaching Ms Good's car, which was stopped at a perpendicular angle on a Minneapolis street.
As one officer ordered her out of the vehicle and grabbed at the door handle, it briefly reversed and then began driving forward, turning to the right in an apparent attempt to leave the scene.
A third officer, positioned in front of her car on the left, drew his gun and fired three times while jumping back, with the last shots aimed through the driver's window after the car's bumper appeared to have cleared his body.
The video did not appear to show contact, and the officer stayed on his feet, though Ms Noem said he was taken to a hospital and later released.
President Trump, a Republican, claimed on social media that the woman "ran over the ICE officer".
Minnesota law allows the use of deadly force by police if an objectively reasonable officer believes that doing so is necessary to protect themselves or others from immediate death or serious harm.
Federal law has a similar standard.
Watch: Mayor Jacob Frey tells ICE to get out of his city
The competing narratives highlighted the political polarisation in the United States, where Mr Trump's supporters enthusiastically endorse his version of events and opponents contend that his assertions are often provably false.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, urged the federal government to withdraw its officers and said that he had put the state's National Guard on alert.
Schools are closed today and tomorrow as a precautionary measure.
With classes cancelled, 17-year-old Addie Flewelling attended the Minneapolis protest to condemn the shooting and show her opposition to the immigration crackdown, including a raid at her high school earlier this week.
"Students were chased off of their place of education," she said. "This is not ok. I'm scared to go to school."
Minneapolis City Council, which identified the dead woman as Ms Good, said that she was "out caring for her neighbours this morning and her life was taken today at the hands of the federal government".
She had a 15-year-old daughter and two sons, aged 12 and six, according to the Washington Post.
Ms Good graduated from Virginia's Old Dominion University (ODU) in 2020 with a degree in English, its President, Brian Hemphill, confirmed in a statement.
"This is yet another clear example that fear and violence have sadly become commonplace in our nation.
"May Renee's life be a reminder of what unites us: freedom, love, and peace," he said.
While at ODU, Ms Good won an undergraduate poetry prize, according to a 2020 Facebook post by the school’s English department, which described her as hailing from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
"When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons," the post said.
Watch: Vigil held in Minneapolis following woman's fatal shooting
It added that she co-hosted a podcast with her husband, comedian Tim Macklin.
He died in 2023 at 36, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, called for an investigation into Ms Good's death, saying it was "deeply disturbing" and "tragic."
Her mother told the Star Tribune newspaper that her daughter was "extremely compassionate" and not the type of person to confront ICE agents.
"She's taken care of people all her life," Donna Ganger said. "She was loving, forgiving and affectionate."
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The Minnesota operation, part of President Trump's nationwide crackdown on migrants, was also mounted in response to a politically charged investigation into fraud allegations against some non-profit groups in the Somali community.
At least 56 people have pleaded guilty since federal prosecutors - under the previous Democratic administration of Joe Biden - started investigating childcare and other social service programmes.
US on 'verge of civil war'
A Boston-based immigration lawyer said the shooting was an incident "waiting to happen all over the country".
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with David McCullagh, John Foley said ICE and the Trump administration were "out of control" and things will "get worse before they get better".
"I was in (Washington) DC last week - we still have military troops on the streets of our nation's capital.
"When you talk to them, they don't want to be there, there's nothing for them to do. It's just Donald Trump chaos," he said.
"It's this today, earlier in the week we took a president out of his bed in a different country. This administration is simply out of control."
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Mr Foley said it is not easy for those who are undocumented to leave the United States, as many have built lives there, but he said he has had clients who have chosen to self-deport because the US is "not a good place to be right now".
He said that President Trump created this situation, is responsible for Ms Good's death, and the American public is at risk.
The administration "likes the chaos" and believes fear is acceptable, Mr Foley said.
"The United States right now is on the verge of civil war. We are at war with ourselves and we are at war with this administration."
