MINNEAPOLIS – Leading Minnesota Democrats are advocating for state involvement in the investigation of a Minneapolis woman’s fatal shooting by an immigration officer, challenging the current federal oversight.

Both Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Senator Tina Smith expressed their concerns in separate interviews on Sunday, suggesting that state authorities should play a role. They argue that the federal government has already formed conclusions about the incident, which may compromise the investigation’s objectivity.

Senator Smith, speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” questioned the impartiality of a federal-led inquiry. “It’s challenging to trust an unbiased federal investigation when they’ve already publicly stated their perspective on the incident,” she remarked.

The Trump administration has stood by the officer involved in the shooting of Renee Good, asserting that he acted in self-defense to protect himself and his fellow agents.

Meanwhile, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, during a Sunday interview with CNN, avoided delving into the specifics of the incident. She also shrugged off the grievances expressed by Minnesota officials regarding the exclusion of local agencies from the investigation process.

“We do work with locals when they work with us,” she said, criticizing the Minneapolis mayor and others for not assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

Frey and Noem each pointed fingers at the other for their rhetoric after Renee Good’s killing, and each pushed their own firm conclusions about what video of the incident shows. The mayor stood by his assertions that videos show “a federal agent recklessly abusing power that ended up in somebody’s dying.”

“Let’s have the investigation in the hands of someone that isn’t biased,” Frey said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

The killing of Good on Wednesday by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests across the country over the weekend.

Trump administration officials have said both shootings were acts of self-defense against drivers who “weaponized” their vehicles to attack officers.

Thousands of people marched in Minneapolis on Saturday where Homeland Security called its deployment of immigration officers in the Twin Cities its biggest ever immigration enforcement operation.