Joe Thompson, the career U.S. Justice Department attorney best known for prosecuting social services fraud in Minnesota, has resigned along with other experienced attorneys at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The move comes after top Justice Department officials pushed the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate the widow of Renee Macklin Good, the person shot and killed last week by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, MPR News has learned.
Thompson, 47, also objected to the DOJ’s decision to exclude the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from the investigation into the shooting and the department’s reluctance to investigate Ross, according to a person familiar with Thompson’s decision.
Veteran assistant U.S. attorneys Melinda Williams, Harry Jacobs, and Thomas Calhoun-Lopez also resigned. The prosecutors were also concerned that immigration enforcement is diverting resources away from prosecuting major fraud cases in the state.
To be honest anyone who takes the extra effort to move to Lemmy is probably a voter, I doubt there are that many non voters on Lemmy.
I would hope so but I have talked to non voters and accelerationists that are so tired of the system that instead of trying to fix it, believe it’s better to let it burn down and rebuild. I have felt that way before in elementary and highschool, but now I see more than myself and how much harm will be done in the between stages, and that’s if we got to a good spot of the others side of all this