Mass Resignations At DOJ Protest ICE Murder Coverup

 

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)

 

Thirty Years Ago: The Oklahoma City Bombing

 

Thirty years ago today, two fascist monsters -- Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols -- blew up a Federal building in Oklahoma City, OK, killing 168 innocent people, including 19 babies and children, and injuring 684.   Never forget:

On the morning of April 19, 1995, the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in United States history took place at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

The building was home to numerous governmental agencies, including offices for employees of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives as well as the Social Security Administration, and recruiting offices for the Army and Marine Corps.

That morning had started like any typical workday for the hundreds of employees inside. Just as they were sitting down at their desks to begin their day, a Ryder rental truck full of explosives parked in front of the building. Per the FBI, the truck contained a mixture of 2,000 lbs. of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel and other chemicals.

At 9:02 a.m., the bombs detonated inside the vehicle, instantly crumbling the north side of the nine-story concrete and granite building. With a third of the building reduced to rubble, the FBI compared the surrounding area to a war zone. Nearby cars were incinerated and almost 300 other buildings were damaged or destroyed. The impact of the explosion could be felt all across the city — including in the FBI’s Oklahoma City Field Office five miles northwest of the federal building. 

“People, they’d come out and they were walking like zombies and they’d walk as far as they could walk and they’d collapse. They were in shock,” Dr. Carl Spengler recalled in Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror.

In the midst of the chaos, concern grew that there was another bomb planted in the building and the area was temporarily evacuated, leaving trapped victims behind. Once the supposed bomb was retrieved from the eighth floor, it was taken off-site to be examined, only to be discovered that it was a prop from a planned sting operation, per Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror.

Rescue efforts were able to begin again later that morning. Over 50 people were rescued from the debris in total, according to The Oklahoma City Bombing by Geraldine Giordano, but many others died due to their injuries while they were trapped...

The full story of the bombing and the perpetrators continues at the link.

Monsters like McVeigh and Nichols are still in our body politic, some choosing guns to express their violent pathologies, some choosing cars, some preferring bombs.  Now that their would- be dictator and his compliant cult are in power, they almost certainly feel more enabled than ever to act out against the regime's long list of "enemies."  Pardoning the January 6 insurrectionists, installing the likes of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino at the FBI, etc., can only add to their sense that their time has come to "shatter nations" and "destroy kingdoms."

(Photo:  the Alfred F. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, OK, April 1995/ Bill Waugh, AP/Shutterstock.com)