Top federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned after the Department of Justice pushed to investigate the widow of Renee Good and rebuffed an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot her last week.
Veteran prosecutor Joseph Thompson, who was previously appointed by Donald Trump to serve as Minnesota’s acting U.S. attorney and first assistant U.S. attorney, had overseen a sprawling fraud investigation at the center of the president’s surge of federal law enforcement officers in the state.
Thompson is among at least four career prosecutors who quit Tuesday.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Melinda Williams, Harry Jacobs, and Thomas Calhoun-Lopez also reportedly resigned.
Their abrupt departure follows an exodus at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, where at least four officials left in frustration over division chief Harmeet Dhillon’s refusal to investigate a fatal shooting that has sparked widespread protests and political outrage.
Former acting US attorney Joseph Thompson, a top federal prosecutor in Minneosta, has reportedly resigned along with three other career prosecutors after the DOJ’s demands surrounding investigations in the aftermath of an ICE officer’s killing of Renee Good (AP)
