Yes, a proper and decent U.S. of A, federal government would have identified these two from the start, but we ain't got that, so ProPublica had to out them.
From the tail end of the PP story:
Note from the editors:
ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed.
The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement.
The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.
Silence, by Trump and Miller, is not golden. It is indicative of something to hide.
What, how bad is the truth to these people? We await truth to unwind. And, given the hiding of truth, it has to be as bad as it gets; Prove me wrong!
(That "Prove me wrong" was not good for Charlie Kirk, but I used it anyway, hoping I fare better. Even a stay in the Wipple Building beats how Kirk met his end.)
The PP story from that link is there for any interested reader. No excerpt here.
A hat tip to EmptyWheel, where Crabgrass first learned of perp ID.
Likely more shoes are set to drop, so the ongoing story will be the real truth, hopefully, and it will not be another stone wall where we infer and speculate.
The focus here revolves around the FBI now allegedly investigating and not hiding the ball. We'll see, but Crabgrass believes Pam Bondi would have preferred a deeply buried truth, which under Patel could happen, but at any rate it appears Congress critters blasted Bondi off the dime to stage something like truth seeking, (if done for not her and her DOJ munchkins), then at least done for a people hungry for and deserving more than being treated like proverbial mushrooms.
That is the five page letter from House members to Bondi, shaming her will to mushroom anyone and everyone. Pdf documents are difficult to cut/paste into hypertext, so no excerpt is given, but the letter is short and with a J'Accuse, flavor, so follow the link to the original, and see if you agree with Crabgrass that without that swift kick in ass Bondi would have done zippo for the public trust. (Just as her boss would have preferred things.)
And of course the Minnesota BCA investigative unit doing the job would have generated more trust than Kash Patel will ever be worth, nonetheless, it is the FBI Bondi tasked with "finding truth" and we wait to see.
At least now the three murdering perps have been identified in the Good and Pretti cold blooded killings, so even if the feds lie down and play dead, the murderous conduct was in Minneapolis, and local authorities will, sooner or later, prosecute.
Murder has no statute of limitations, and Minnesota convictions are immune to Trump's thugish pardon power. Nail them here, and prove the legal system works.
UPDATE: The EmptyWheel link in turn links to additional Bluesky content.