What Does It Say About Our Government When There Are Mass Resignations from the Department of Justice?
The news goes from terrible to worse than terrible. https://www.ms.now/news/doj-civil-rights-division-officials-quit-harmeet-dhillon
The entire leadership of the Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice has resigned in protest of the USDOJ’s apparent decision not to investigate the police shooting death of Renee Good.
I worked there for four years, and most of the time my job was to direct FBI investigations into alleged police misconduct, take evidence before a grand jury where appropriate, and prosecute jury trials of law enforcement officers where appropriate, i.e., where there was strong evidence that the defendants had acted with specific intent to deprive people of their constitutional rights to life and liberty.
Investigations were never closed before they had been completed. In this case, however, it appears that an investigation was closed before it even got started. There’s nothing like sticking your head in the sand to prevent finding out the facts. It’s gross and unjust mismanagement of our country.
This is the same government that’s by edict preventing the State of Minnesota from participating in any investigation. So Trump’s government wants to play it both ways. No, you (the State) cannot join our federal investigation, and no, there will be no federal investigation.
This government non-action is an embarrassment to anyone who cares about fairness and justice.