“The Justice Department has abdicated its role in seeking accountability for these fatal shootings by refusing to investigate allegations of unlawful, excessive force by federal agents in Minneapolis,” Stacey Young, executive director and founder of the Justice Connection, said in a statement.

Young said that under any previous administration, the DOJ would have launched a civil rights investigation into the use of force in the killings of Alex Pretti on Saturday and of Renee Good on Jan. 7.