3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow

[Coventina]

Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and its reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.

Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.

Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent last Wednesday.

Mr. Thompson, 47, a career prosecutor, objected to that approach as well as to the Justice Department’s refusal to include state officials in investigating whether the shooting itself was lawful, the people familiar with his decision said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/3-prosecutors-quit-after-push-to-investigate-ice-shooting-victims-widow.html?

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Pretty soon, all the people with morals will have left the DOJ.

[sop]

1. Halligan or Habba should be available.

[underpants]

2. Yep that's the FBI's focus too

Separately, the FBI - which seized total control of the investigation after freezing out local officials – is looking into Good’s “possible connections to activist groups”, according to the New York Times.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/doj-attorneys-resign-minneapolis-ice-shooting

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3. I get it, but resigning only makes it easier for them.

[ScratchCat]

4. I keep asking the same thing

Why not just keep doing your job? Why resign? Same with the prosecutor who quit five days before the SOL on Comey was up. Why quit? My only assumption is that it has to do with pensions and whatnot, resign and you keep it versus fired for cause and you don't.

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5. To be fair, at least in some case, there are death threats involved.

I think we're all probably underestimating this.

[intheflow]

6. In some ways it makes it easier, but

in other ways it doesn't. They're going to start having a hard time finding lawyers willing to subvert the Constitution for them, and lawyers who leave are then free to whistleblow and/or find jobs with agencies that are prosecuting the Trump cabal's legal transgressions. Here's hopin'!