ICE Agent Involved In Minn. Shooting Unlikely To Face Charges: Report

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has declined to open a separate review into whether Good’s civil rights were violated, according to officials. That decision has prompted internal dissent, with several federal prosecutors resigning in protest over the department’s handling of the case.

The lawyers had reportedly been pushing the head of the division, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, to dispatch a DOJ team to Minneapolis to manufacture a civil rights case.

“Prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were told they will not play a role in the ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer, according to two sources familiar with the matter,” who spoke to CBS News.

After being told “no,” a group of “top leaders” in the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division “have left their jobs to register their frustration with the department.”

“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,” the report added. Continue reading…