""If that's what they're doing in Minneapolis, they're going to do the same thing here," Rosen said. "What I can say definitively is that my office will independently investigate any fatal use of force by law enforcement. ... That is the right thing to do.""
""It says that we're kind of off the rails, when it comes to the idea that the government - even when it uses violence - is doing so within at least its good faith interpretation of the law, and trying to live within it.""
"'Trump and his underlings in the homeland security sector are just kind of openly suggesting the law doesn't apply to them.'"
Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent, prompting a rapid public exoneration of the agent by the president and inflammatory labeling by the Homeland Security secretary. Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said his office will independently investigate any fatal law-enforcement use of force. Legal observers and UC Berkeley law professor Jonathan Simon warned that county prosecutors would likely struggle to investigate or prosecute federal immigration agents because of federal authority, political pressure, and suggestions from federal officials that laws do not constrain their actions. Local interest and obligation to act may clash with limited practical prospects for prosecution.
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