Senate Judiciary Democrats have accused FBI Director Kash Patel of shutting down the FBI investigation into the death of Renee Good at the hands of ICE agents because he did not want the warrant to call her a “victim.”
The group posted on social media on Monday that a “credible whistleblower” revealed that “FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a ‘victim’ in the warrant.”
In a follow-up post, the Democrats clarify that Patel “wanted to falsely spin Renee Good as a threat to law enforcement.” The post included a screenshot explaining information from a credible whistleblower that the FBI’s Forensic Response Section was initially called to the scene of Good’s death to access Good’s car and gather evidence.
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At the end of February, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a letter to the Department of Justice asking for an investigation into the shutting down of the civil rights investigation surrounding Good’s death.
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