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.
7 Comments
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 213d
Come on Joe, don't resign, fight in the position of power not outside of it.
Asafum@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 213d
I feel like I'm on repeat, I've been saying this like every day lately... So many people with morals leaving, but they just leave the position open for someone 100000x worse to fill...
JollyG@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 213d
They probably would have just fired him anyway which would have opened the door to some immoral lawyer.
PhoenixDog@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 213d
Then get fired and take a stand. Don't just give up.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 213d
So… he just opened the door himself instead? How is that better?
Corngood@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 213d
Could he go work for the state and do more good there? To be honest I don't really understand why the state can't handle a murder case on their own.
PhoenixDog@piefed.ca · 23 pts · 213d
This is what the right wants. Open up the vacancies to they can be filled with people who will bow to Trump.