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"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.

"These unprecedented tactics -- which even the former top lawyer of the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration has characterized as embarrassing, lawless and cruel -- have now resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens," the Obamas said.

The Obamas accused the Trump administration of "escalating" the tension in Minneapolis by offering the public explanations of the shootings of Pretti and Renee Good "that aren't informed by any serious investigation -- and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence."

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