A group of left-wing DOJ Civil Rights lawyers resigned after Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon refused to weaponize the department by launching a politically motivated investigation into an ICE officer involved in last week’s Minneapolis shooting.
The lawyers had reportedly been pushing Dhillon to dispatch a DOJ team to Minneapolis to manufacture a civil-rights case out of the Jan. 7 shooting of far-left agitator Renee Nicole Good, who was killed after using her two-ton Honda Pilot as a weapon against an ICE officer. Video footage that surfaced in the days following the incident showed Good and her partner deliberately obstructing ICE operations, undercutting the activists’ preferred narrative. It has since emerged that Good had trained with an “ICE-Watch” group that may have encouraged members to weaponize their vehicles against law enforcement — a fact conspicuously ignored by those demanding federal intervention.
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Despite intense pressure from the left-leaning DOJ lawyers to launch a politically motivated witch hunt against the ICE officer, Harmeet Dhillon stood her ground and put a hard stop to their plans. Those “career prosecutors” were apparently notified last Friday that there would be no investigation into the ICE agent — a decision that undercut their attempt to turn law enforcement into a political cudgel:
Prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were told they will not play a role in the ongoing investigation into a fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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.”
Oh, how will the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ carry on?
Exclusive from ?@MSNOWNews? : There has been a mass resignation among leaders in the criminal section of the Department of Justice civil rights division over the failure to investigate the Minneapolis ICE shooting. With ?@CarolLeonnig? https://t.co/1Vsc6S5cgA
— Ken Dilanian (@KDilanianMSNOW) January 13, 2026
Good riddance. The DOJ is better off without this insular cabal, and their exit may signal a broader purge of the entrenched old guard that long treated the Civil Rights Division as an ideological playground. Their resignations also spare Dhillon the inconvenience of handing out pink slips herself:
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 President Donald Trump’s orders to dismiss the bribery case against then-New York mayor Eric Adams.
What the left-wing press quietly buries is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is already leading the investigation into the incident — a fact that makes the activists’ manufactured outrage even more hollow. And Harmeet Dhillon is hardly shedding tears over the departure of these so-called “career” bureaucrats.
Shortly after taking over the Civil Rights Division, she made it clear she was perfectly comfortable with people moving on — especially those unwilling to leave their lefty politics at the door.
“We don’t want people in the federal government who feel like it’s their pet project to go persecute police department based on statistical evidence or persecute people praying outside abortion facilities instead of doing violence.”
She added, “The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws — not woke ideology.”
