Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said she supports her counterpart in Minnesota in his response to the killing of a Minneapolis woman by a federal agent during a surge in immigration enforcement.
Appearing on Boston Public Radio Tuesday, Campbell said she she’s in “direct contact” with Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and other Democratic attorneys general “who are seeing unprecedented attacks, in many ways, by ICE agents and sometimes Border Patrol agents within their communities.”
“I’m continuing to stay in contact with them to support them in how we hold ICE and federal administration officials accountable,” Campbell said. “It is not easy for us to do, but we are all on the same page that accountability is necessary. I also hope we do not see what we’re seeing in Illinois right now, in Oregon and in Minnesota, here in Massachusetts.”
Campbell criticized what she described as a lack of transparency from federal officials around an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer’s shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota last week. She said Ellison has been “shut out” of the FBI’s investigation into the death.
The FBI took over the probe into the shooting, after initially saying it would work jointly with Minnesota officials.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told CNN that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob have “extremely politicized and inappropriately talked about this situation.” She said federal officials are following protocols and “work with locals when they work with us.”
Campbell, asked Tuesday if she believes Good was murdered, said, “I think, based on the video and the accounts, that it could be murder.”
“That being said, we know in the role that I have as attorney general, that you have to prove that,” she said.
Campbell said she is grateful that Ellison is “inserting himself to do a thorough investigation, to get to a conclusion of whether or not she was murdered.”
“And I told him, I support him every step of the way to seek accountability for her death,” Campbell said.
Ellison and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul each filed lawsuits Monday against the Trump administration over immigration enforcement activities in their states. Campbell said she supports those actions.
