The Feds are barring the Minnesota investigators, because the Feds don’t trust the state people to do whatever Trump tells them to do. Now there’s a surprise.

Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday’s shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the highly unusual move by the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating in the probe.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Thursday that after an initial agreement for the FBI to work with the state agency, as well as prosecutors from the US Attorney’s office in Minneapolis and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, to investigate the shooting, federal authorities reversed course and the FBI blocked the BCA from participating in the investigation.

Behind the move to sever ties were concerns in the Trump administration that state officials couldn’t be trusted with information that emerges from the probe, and that ICE agents’ safety would be put at risk, including with potential doxxing of agents involved, two people familiar with the matter told CNN.

Blah blah blah. The Trump administration concerns are that the state is not in thrall to Trump.

The mistrust goes both ways, as state officials attacked the conduct of ICE agents and raised concerns that federal authorities can’t be trusted to fairly investigate given public statements from President Donald Trump and other administration officials accusing the woman killed of being a domestic terrorist.

Yes, because Trump is visibly, historically, documentedly, unmistakably not trustworthy. He lies every time he opens his foul mouth, he’s a sadist and a bully, he likes to see people he considers his enemies killed.

Minnesota officials have lambasted ICE as “reckless,” calling comments defending the officers who fired the shot as “bullshit,” and calling the deployment of ICE in Minnesota a threat to the “endurance of our republic.” Comments like these, the sources said, have fueled the distrust.

Nice little racket you’ve got there. Do bad things; get told you do bad things; refuse to work with people who tell you you do the bad things you do.

Minnesota Department of Public Safety commissioner Bob Jacobson said during a press conference Thursday that state investigators work with the FBI “all the time” as the bureau has “the evidence in the original investigative notes and reports.”

“We have none of that,” he said. “They have shared none of that with us.”

Jacobson added that bringing a case against the officer would be “extremely difficult, if not impossible, without cooperation from the federal government.”

So in other words the Ice agent will be protected and there will be no consequences for that murder.