A group of lawyers in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have reportedly resigned after Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon declined to investigate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer involved in last week's shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The group had apparently pushed Dhillon to let a DOJ delegation fly to Minneapolis to investigate the January 7 shooting death of far-left agitator Renee Nicole Good, who was shot after she used her two-ton Honda Pilot as a weapon against the officer. A series of videos that hit social media in the days after the shooting showed that Good and her "wife," Rebecca, were deliberately interfering with ICE operations in the area. It's also been revealed that Renee Good had trained with an "ICE-Watch" group that has possibly encouraged its members to use their vehicles as weapons against law enforcement.
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Despite pressure from the lefty lawyers – described as "career prosecutors" – to initiate a witch hunt against the officer, Dhillon put a kibosh on their plans. They were apparently informed of the decision not to move forward with an investigation of the ICE agent last Friday.
Prosecutors in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division were told they will not play a role in the ongoing investigation into a fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
After being told "no," a group of "top leaders" in the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division "have left their jobs to register their frustration with the department." Shock, horror.
Exclusive from @MSNOWNews : There has been a mass resignation among leaders in the criminal section of the Department of Justice civil rights division over the failure to investigate the Minneapolis ICE shooting. With @CarolLeonnig https://t.co/1Vsc6S5cgA
— Ken Dilanian (@KDilanianMSNOW) January 13, 2026
Sounds like the DOJ is well rid of this cabal, and these departures could be part of a trend of mass resignations amongst the old guard. This, of course, also saves Dhillon the trouble of having to draw up their pink slips.
The departures – including that of the chief of the section, as well as the principal deputy chief, deputy chief and acting deputy chief – represent the most significant mass resignation at the Justice Department since February. At that time, five leaders and supervisors of the department’s Public Integrity Section, which investigates public officials for possible corruption, resigned rather than comply with an appointee of President Donald Trump’s orders to dismiss the bribery case against then-New York mayor Eric Adams.
What the lefty press doesn't want you to know, and bury deep in their stories, is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is already taking the lead on investigating the incident.
Harmeet Dhillon certainly won't be mourning the loss of these "career" government employees. Soon after taking over the Civil Rights Division, she said "it's fine" to see people move on. “We don’t want people in the federal government who feel like it’s their pet project to go persecute police department based on statistical evidence or persecute people praying outside abortion facilities instead of doing violence.”
She added, “The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws — not woke ideology.”
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