US EditionSix Minnesota US Attorneys Resign Over DOJ Handling of Renee Good ICE Shooting
Six senior prosecutors resigned over DOJ's refusal to include state investigators or open a civil rights probe into the ICE shooting, citing politicized priorities, sources said.
- On Tuesday, six federal prosecutors resigned from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota, including veteran Joseph Thompson and several career prosecutors, in abrupt departures.
- DOJ directives prompted pushback from career prosecutors after the department refused a civil‑rights probe and reportedly pushed a criminal inquiry into Becca Good, sidelining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
- Footage shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross filming with one hand and firing three shots as Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot while appearing to drive away on January 7.
- Minnesota officials asked for an independent review after federal limits on evidence access, with Tim Walz calling Joseph Thompson a principled public servant and Brian O'Hara warning the resignations raise credibility questions.
- Joseph Thompson had been the lead prosecutor in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud case and also oversaw probes into 14 Minnesota state-run Medicaid programs, while at least four Civil Rights Division senior lawyers resigned recently amid leadership disputes involving Harmeet Dhillon.
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Six attorneys from the Federal Attorney General's Office of Minneapolis (Minnesota) resigned on Tuesday in the face of pressure being exerted by the Donald Trump Government's Department of Justice in the case of Renee Good, the woman who was shot dead last week by an Immigration Service (ICE) agent, as reported by The New York Times. The newspaper, which cites sources familiar with the dismissals, notes that the group of resigning prosecutors is…
At least six federal prosecutors have resigned amid pressure from the US Justice Department to treat the death of a 37-year-old woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis last week as an attack on agents.
Six federal prosecutors serving in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Minnesota District resigned on Tuesday, January 13 in an unprecedented protest against the pressure of the leadership of the Department of Justice (DOJ). At the center of the internal fracture is the way the federal government is managing the investigation of the death of Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old Minneapolis killed last Wednesday by an agent of the "Immigration and C…
Federal prosecutors quit as Trump’s Justice Department defends ICE murderer, pursues investigation into victim's widow
The refusal to investigate Renee Good’s killer, alongside FBI probes of her family and allies, marks a major escalation in the ruling class campaign to criminalize opposition and suppress the democratic rights of the working class.
By Evan Perez, CNN. The Trump administration's push to investigate Renee Good and those around her, rather than the ICE agent who shot her in Minneapolis, is wreaking havoc in the U.S. Attorney's office in Minnesota, which is leading the investigation. At least half a dozen federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned amid escalating tensions between state and federal authorities following Wednesday's shooting, a source familiar with the case …
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