Minnesota You Are On Your Own. Please Be Careful, Please Stay Safe.
Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension put it in writing. The FBI told them it will provide no evidence at all in the killing of Alex Pretti. The BCA called that refusal “concerning and unprecedented.”
Direct source: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/02/16/fbi-refuses-to-share-evidence-in-three-minnesota-shootings (mprnews.org in Bing)
This is not a delay. This is not a backlog. This is a position. And the BCA is saying it plainly: this is not how this works in Minnesota.
It is not one case. It is three shootings in eighteen days.
Alex Pretti.
Renee Good.
Julio Sosa Celis.
The BCA says it requested evidence in all three. The FBI declined in all three. Even when the BCA arrived with a court ordered search warrant issued by a Minnesota judge, federal agents refused access. Direct sources: Star Tribune | KARE11
When a state agency publicly documents that the federal government has locked down every piece of evidence, that is not a misunderstanding. That is a practice.
Legal ramifications
Federal supremacy over state process
Federal agencies are not required to comply with state investigative requests. They can decline to share evidence. They can refuse a state warrant. Legally possible. Politically volatile. Direct source: Cornell Law
A crippled state investigation
The BCA says it will continue “thorough, independent and transparent investigations” even while “hampered by a lack of access to key information and evidence.” Direct source: MPR News
In your cadence: the state is being told to solve a case after someone swept half the evidence off the table.
Prosecutors receive an incomplete record
The BCA must present findings without recommendation. But without federal evidence, prosecutors will be reviewing a case missing ballistics, scene documentation, agent statements, and internal reports. That is not a review. That is a void.
Civil litigation becomes the next arena
Families can sue. But without evidence, they face the same wall the state faces. Discovery becomes trench warfare. Direct source: DOJ Civil Discovery
Only DOJ oversight can break the seal
The BCA has already told the FBI and DOJ it remains willing to cooperate if the stance changes. That is not optimism. That is a flare fired into a dark field.
[PICTURE 4: DOJ seal or courthouse exterior]
The real message
When the state says the federal government has locked the evidence room, the public is not part of the equation. The institutions are not speaking to you. They are speaking around you.
You are on your own. Please stay safe.
We're not mad enough YET???
Minnesota needs to move forward with this investigation. There is no doubt a grand jury will indict. Finding the defendants will present challenges if US Marshals are not allowed to get involved. There are enough people outraged all over the country and world who would be more than happy to hunt them down. There y no statue of limitation for murder. You will pay for your actions.