At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section’s head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

Top leaders of the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division have left their jobs to register their frustration with the department after the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon decided not to investigate the ICE officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good last week.

The criminal section of the division would normally investigate any fatal shooting by a law enforcement officer and specializes in probing potential or alleged abuse or improper use of force by law enforcement.

The departures – including that of the chief of the section, as well as the principal deputy chief, deputy chief and acting deputy chief – represent the most significant mass resignation at the Justice Department since February. At that time, five leaders and supervisors of the department’s Public Integrity Section, which investigates public officials for possible corruption, resigned rather than comply with an appointee of Donald Trump’s orders to dismiss the bribery case against then-New York mayor Eric Adams.

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    It’s infuriating. People are literally laying down and taking it up the ass right now while saying, “it’s okay, it’ll be fixed a year from now”

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      How is saying that we “won’t have midterms” anything but lying down and taking it up the ass in advance? You’ve already given up and it’s only January.

      I wish you doomers would go back to reddit.

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        I say it because we need to be taking action today assuming midterms aren’t happening. It isn’t doomer, fuck off with that bullshit.