From Global News.

The U.S Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed Saturday by Border Patrol officers, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday.

"Investigations like this are led by law enforcement, so that’s the FBI," Blanche said. He added that this is a "standard investigation by the FBI when there’s circumstances like what we saw last Saturday. And that investigation, to the extent it needs to involve lawyers at the civil rights division, it will involve those."

Blanche did not explain why the DOJ decided to open an investigation into Pretti’s killing, but has said a similar probe is not warranted in the Jan. 7 death of Renee Good, who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.

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