Four DOJ attorneys resigned from the Civil Rights Division, and they say it’s because they wanted to investigate the death of Renee Good, but were sidelined.
Here’s what Reuters reported:
Four senior civil rights lawyers at the U.S. Justice Department resigned in recent days, departures that were prompted in part by a decision to sideline their unit from investigating the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by a U.S. immigration officer, according to two sources familiar with the departures.The lawyers were all supervisors in the criminal section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which typically plays a leading role in federal investigations into use of force by police officers. The head of the division, Harmeet Dhillon, an appointee of President Donald Trump, informed the unit last week they would not be involved in the probe, one of the sources said. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive internal matter.
Who were these attorneys and why did they really resign? Former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor William Shipley explained all of this on X a few minutes ago. Once you read what he wrote, you’ll completely understand why AAG Dhillon refused to allow them to investigate the Renee Good case.
In short, these are hack attorneys who weaponized the justice system against a police officer in the Breonna Taylor case, even though he’d be acquitted twice in state court.
Here’s what he wrote:
Let me tell you the real reason why the four prosecutors in Civil Rights Criminal Section resigned.It has to do with the death of Breonna Taylor.
Louisville PD Officer Brett Hankison was retried after a jury in his first federal trial ended 11-1 for acquittal. These four individuals were part of the leadership team that agitated to retry him.
Hankison had already been acquitted in state court trial.
Hankison did not fire the round that killed Taylor. No one was struck by any round Hankison fired.
Hankison was convicted in a second trial in Nov. 2024, with the verdict coming just prior to the election.
After the Trump Admin. took over DOJ and the Civil Rights Division, it asked to have the sentencing postponed so new leadership could examine the history of the case and the decision-making behind retrying a case that had ended 11-1 for acquittal after a 12-0 acquittal in state court.
The DOJ filed a Sentencing Memorandum that said it could find NO CASE EVER that had been prosecuted on the legal theory relied upon by the DOJ prosecutors and supervisors who were behind the Hankison case.
It as a “cause” to “get” one police officer.
The Civil Rights prosecutors who had handled the case were removed by AAG Dhillon, and both have since left the office.
In the Sentencing Memoranda, DOJ recommended a sentence of “Time Served” — 1 day — given the conduct of the Biden DOJ.
The judge was unhappy — she had expressed a clear dislike of Hankison and was cowed by the protesters in and out of the courtroom.
She sentenced him to 33 months AND denied him bail pending appeal even though DOJ did not oppose and agreed there were significant legal issues with the conviction.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals AGREED with Hankison and DOJ, and ordered him released pending appeal just before Christmas.
DOJ is likely to concede error by the Biden Civil Rights Prosecutors — who were supported by the now resigned leadership.
Now you know the rest of the story.
I have an article I’m working on re Hankison’s case that mostly focuses on the outrageous conduct by the Judge — a Trump appointee, but more important than that, a McConnell acolyte.
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