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DOJ
Civil
Rights
Exodus:
4 Top
Division
Prosecutors
Quit
After MN
Shooting
Probe
Denied
Marc
Kennedy
-
National-Politics
Tell Us
USA News
Network
WASHINGTON
- In the
shadowed
corridors
of the
Justice
Department,
where
civil
rights
probes
have
long
been a
bulwark
against
unchecked
power, a
mutiny
unfolded
this
week.
Four top
prosecutors
from the
Civil
Rights
Division's
criminal
section—the
chief,
principal
deputy
chief,
deputy
chief,
and
acting
deputy
chief—walked
out in
unison,
their
resignations
a
thunderclap
protest
against
Assistant
Attorney
General
Harmeet
Dhillon's
order to
stand
down on
the
fatal
shooting
of Renee
Nicole
Good.
This
37-year-old
Minneapolis
woman,
gunned
down by
ICE
officer
Jonathan
Ross on
January
7 as she
pulled
away
from a
traffic
stop,
became
the
flashpoint
for an
administration
that
seems to
view
federal
agents
as
untouchable.
The
facts
paint a
grim
tableau,
pieced
together
from
bystander
video
and
eyewitness
accounts
that no
amount
of
official
spin can
erase.
Good,
shot
three
times in
her
vehicle,
lay
dying
while
officers
allegedly
held
back a
Good
Samaritan
doctor
desperate
to
render
aid—minutes
ticking
by in a
haze of
bureaucratic
paralysis.
Ross,
identified
in court
records,
opened
fire
claiming
self-defense,
a
narrative
swiftly
amplified
by DHS
Secretary
Kristi
Noem as
"domestic
terrorism"
and
echoed
by Vice
President
JD Vance
and
President
Trump
himself.
Yet the
footage
tells a
different
story:
no
officer
trampled
under
tire,
just a
woman
accelerating
away
from
what she
likely
saw as
menace,
only to
meet
bullets
in the
rearview.
Dhillon's
division,
battle-tested
in cases
from
George
Floyd to
countless
others
exposing
excessive
force,
was
primed
to dive
in—career
staff
even
volunteered.
But the
directive
came
down: no
investigation.
By
January
10, the
FBI had
seized
control,
freezing
out
Minnesota
state
sleuths
and
spiriting
evidence
under
federal
lock.
Kristen
Clarke,
the
former
division
head
ousted
in the
Trump
sweep,
decried
it as
shirking
a
"solemn
duty,"
her
words a
haunting
reminder
of the
expertise
now
idled.
Deputy
AG Todd
Blanche
doubled
down,
extolling
agents'
license
for
deadly
force
against
any
whiff of
threat,
while
the DOJ
stonewalled
questions.
The
ripples
spread
fast.
Protests
flared
coast to
coast,
from
Detroit's
streets—where
anger
over
federal
overreach
boils
hot—to
rallies
demanding
accountability.
Minnesota,
Minneapolis,
and St.
Paul
fired
back
with
lawsuits
to
throttle
Trump's
post-shooting
immigration
blitz,
accusing
Washington
of a
blatant
cover-up.
In this
crucible,
where
civil
rights
hang by
policy
threads,
the
resignations
signal
more
than
exodus:
they're
a
fracture
line in
the
republic's
moral
architecture,
a
warning
that
when
watchdogs
are
muzzled,
the
powerful
prowl
free.
The
probe
grinds
on
without
them,
but
justice?
That's
the real
casualty
bleeding
out.
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