Renee Good report

With a state investigation ongoing, Good’s family hired Romanucci & Blandin, the same law firm that represented George Floyd’s family.

[...]

A Fire Department report released on Friday revealed that Good had four bullet wounds in her chest, arm and head and paramedics found her with an “inconsistent” and “irregular” pulse, raising questions of criminal liability under the state’s Good Samaritan law.

[...]

As protests show no signs of ebbing, the state of Minnesota and city of Minneapolis filed a federal lawsuit declaring: “Operation Metro Surge is, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities.”

The American Civil Liberties Union scored a legal victory in a separate lawsuit, resulting in a federal judge blocking law enforcement from retaliating against the protesters.

  All Rise News

Who's going to enforce that?

“There is no sign that this operation is winding down — indeed, it appears to still be ramping up,” U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote.

The same judge set out a briefing schedule in the lawsuit brought by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, which seeks a ruling that the federal surge in the Twin Cities to be “unconstitutional and unlawful.”

[...]

On Sunday, The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon ordered 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for possible deployment to Minnesota.

[...]

“There is a huge cost: You look illegitimate, and it's a use of force that the Founders of the country never wanted,” University of Massachusetts at Amherst professor Jamie Rowen noted in an interview. Whether Trump knows it or not, he can’t afford it.

He knows it. His internal polling is showing the same thing as public polling.

Trump previously tried to justify the deployment of troops in U.S. cities through a different legal justification, Title 10, only to be defeated all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Judge Kate M. Menendez ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity,” and not to use pepper spray or other “crowd dispersal tools” in retaliation for protected speech. The judge also said agents could not stop or detain protesters in vehicles who were not “forcibly obstructing or interfering with” agents.

[...]

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement responding to the injunction that “D.H.S. is taking appropriate and constitutional measures to uphold the rule of law and protect our officers and the public from dangerous rioters.”

She said agents had faced assaults, had fireworks launched at them and had the tires of their vehicles slashed. She added that despite “grave threats,” agents had “followed their training and used the minimum amount of force necessary to protect themselves, the public and federal property.”

[...]

Judge Menendez’s order applies only to federal agents in Minnesota who are participating in that campaign.

[...]

The injunction did not include explicit protections for recording of agents or other provisions sought by the plaintiffs.

[...]

In Illinois, where immigration agents amassed for several weeks last year, a federal judge issued a sweeping injunction that placed several limits on how agents could use force and interact with protesters. An appellate court later blocked that ruling, calling it too broad and too prescriptive.