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New York.- Six lawyers from the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Minneapolis (Minnesota) resigned this Tuesday due to pressure from the Department of Justice in the case of Renee Good, the woman who was shot and killed last week by an agent of the Immigration Service (ICE), reported The New York Times.
The newspaper, citing sources familiar with the resignations, indicates that the group of prosecutors is headed by the number two in the office, Deputy Prosecutor Joseph Thompson, who made his decision after receiving pressure from senior officials of Justice to investigate the widow of Good, Becca.
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Also, it reports that the Justice decided not to investigate whether the agent who shot Good violated federal law, in what would be a civil rights case, and instead opened an investigation into the woman's and her wife's links to activist groups that were protesting immigration raids. Thompson previously objected to those decisions, as well as the Justice Department's refusal to open an investigation in cooperation with a state agency that deals with police shootings, the newspaper indicates, citing its sources. The deputy prosecutor also led an investigation into fraud in school aid in Minnesota that began in 2022, and with which the Trump government has justified its immigration raids and the sending of reinforcing federal agents, since the majority of the accused are of Somali origin, it adds. The Times also quotes the head of Minneapolis Police, Brian O'Hara, who points out that the resignation is a "blow" to those efforts against fraud in the state's state agencies. The governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, echoed the news on X and said that Thompson's departure is a "loss" for the state and a sign that President Donald Trump is removing non-partisan professionals from the Department of Justice and replacing them with "sycophants". Thompson has resigned along with prosecutors Harry Jacobs, Melinda Williams, Thomas Calhoun-Lopez, Ruth Schneider, and Tom Hollenhurst, according to CBS.
