There are people of principle in the Department of Justice, and they're resigning over the Department's coverup of an ICE thug's murder of Renee Nicole Good and subsequent "investigating" and smearing Good's widow. From The Guardian:
A wave of federal prosecutors in Minnesota and Washington DC have resigned in protest over the justice department’s decision not to hold a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of an unarmed US citizen by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis.
Six lawyers from the US attorney’s office in Minnesota quit on Tuesday over the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter of Renee Nicole Good, the New York Times reported.
Among them is Joseph H Thompson, who was second in command at the office and led a large-scale fraud inquiry last year that led in part to the Trump administration sending a surge of immigration agents into the state.
Thompson and his colleagues, the Times said, were upset at senior justice department officials demanding a criminal inquiry into any ties between Good and her widow, Becca, into activist groups; and the refusal of the FBI to allow state investigators to join its investigation of the shooting.
Separately, four leaders of a crucial division in the US justice department have also resigned. The lawyers left the civil rights division, which has a criminal investigations unit that investigates the use of force by police officers, according to MS Now, citing three people it said were briefed about the departures.
The resignations follow a decision by Harmeet Dhillon, the Trump administration-aligned assistant attorney general for civil rights, not to investigate the 7 January killing of Good by Jonathan Ross, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.
Dhillon told the unit the week before that it would not be involved in any investigation, Reuters reported a source as saying. [snip]
Dhillon, a former Republican official in California, and an election denier who promoted the “big lie” that Trump’s 2020 election defeat was fraudulent, was confirmed by the Senate in April. She worked quickly to realign the division’s priorities away from its longstanding work tackling discrimination and protecting the rights of marginalized groups and towards Trump’s political goals, including exposing voter fraud, which is rare, and focusing on anti-transgender issues...
Here's what Good's widow had to say (and she sure as hell doesn't sound like a "domestic terrorist"):
In a statement shared with Minnesota Public Radio on Friday, Good’s wife, Becca, asked for privacy and thanked “the kindness of strangers” who reached out after the shooting.
“Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow,” Becca Good wrote. “Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole.”
Now, let's make sure the real domestic terrorists pay for allowing lawless goons to roam the streets, turning American cities into war zones. That goes for the Malignant Fascist and his supine party/ cult all the way down the chain of command to the lowest trigger-happy thug.
(Photo: Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson / Aaron Nesheim | Sahan Journal)
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