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27. Top prosecutors in D.C., Minneapolis leave amid turmoil over shooting probe
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 06:12 PM
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Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office left after pressure to investigate the widow of a woman slain by an ICE officer.

Top prosecutors in D.C., Minneapolis leave amid turmoil over shooting probe
Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office left after pressure to investigate the widow of a woman slain by an ICE officer. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Jersey Craig (@jerseycraig.bsky.social) 2026-01-13T20:59:41.970Z

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/13/justice-department-civil-rights-resignations/

Multiple senior prosecutors in Washington and Minnesota are leaving their jobs amid turmoil over the Trump administration’s handling of the shooting death of a Minneapolis woman.

The departures include at least five prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis, including the office’s second-in-command, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the matter.

Their resignations followed demands by Justice Department leaders to investigate the widow of Renée Good, the 37-year-old woman killed last week by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot into her car, according to two people familiar with the resignations who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of concern for retaliation. Good’s wife was protesting ICE officers in the moments before the shooting. Prosecutors also were dismayed over the decision by federal officials to exclude state and local authorities from the investigation, one of the people said.

Five senior prosecutors in the criminal section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division also said they are leaving, according to four people familiar with the personnel moves who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters.

The departures strip both the Civil Rights Division’s criminal section and U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota of their most experienced prosecutors. The moves are widely seen as a major vote of no-confidence by career prosecutors at a moment when the department is under extreme scrutiny......

“This exodus is a huge blow signaling the disrespect and sidelining of the finest and most experienced civil rights prosecutors,” said Vanita Gupta, the head of the division during the Obama administration and the associate attorney general during the Biden administration. “It means cases won’t be brought, unique expertise will be lost and the top career attorneys who may be a backstop to some of the worst impulses of this administration will have left.”

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Will this help? Srkdqltr Yesterday #1
Yeah, I don't really see how it does help, nor see why state prosecutors would quit over it AZJonnie Yesterday #5
It could help liberalgunwilltravel Yesterday #19
Fair enough. If that happens, I will revisit my calculus :) AZJonnie Yesterday #20
I think it could be good, these now very experienced civil rights attorneys can now Bev54 Yesterday #26
Nope newdeal2 Yesterday #6
By what measure? Torchlight Yesterday #23
Nice to see some people with principles for a change. Dave Bowman Yesterday #2
THIS malaise Yesterday #14
I have mixed feelings about this. RandySF Yesterday #3
If they stayed, they'd be complicit in /tainted by what amounts to DHS lawlessness. Their leaving leaves DHS totally ancianita Yesterday #24
What good does that do? Don't we need prosecutors who are arrayed against MAGAfascism? Prairie Gates Yesterday #4
They are leaving because they were being required to support MAGAfascism. Ocelot II Yesterday #11
I'd rather see a headline saying they were FIRED leftstreet Yesterday #7
Correct or delete post. Fed prosecutors located in MN Justice Yesterday #8
It is FEDERAL prosecutors who have resigned, not state. MineralMan Yesterday #9
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow-NYT irisblue Yesterday #10
No paywall link here: Ocelot II Yesterday #12
Thank you thank you thank you irisblue Yesterday #13
Oh sh** Quit to protest investigating victim's WIDOW? lostnfound Yesterday #15
No there is no limit. The devils are in the DOJ& DHS & hell is empty irisblue Yesterday #22
Joe Thompson, U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Minnesota fraud, resigns with other senior members mysteryowl Yesterday #16
Independant investigation, State investigation and or Civil litigation..... aeromanKC Yesterday #17
Where do legal and professional standards and expectations fit into this? RockCreek Yesterday #18
Four leaders of the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ have resigned after decision not to investigate murder of Good LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #21
I've never understood this Alpeduez21 Yesterday #25
Top prosecutors in D.C., Minneapolis leave amid turmoil over shooting probe LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #27
MaddowBlog-An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams LetMyPeopleVote 9 hrs ago #28
MaddowBlog-In Trump's Justice Department, resignations, once rare, are suddenly much more common LetMyPeopleVote 3 hrs ago #29
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