Maybe not, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see videos of ICE vehicles with their tires slashed or being set on fire. Frankly, I would have expected something like that to have happened when they withdraw to their commandeered hotel rooms and park their vehicles overnight already.
While I admire their fortitude in standing up and doing the right thing, I question the logic behind resigning. So long as they remain in place, they can provide some sort of check, however small or ultimately ineffective as it may be, against outrageous acts like this. But if they step aside, this will just provide openings, vacancies that will be quickly filled by some previously unknown individual whose only qualification is that he or she WILL do whatever Trump and his regime demand, no questions asked.Scooter wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:19 pmWhen demonizing the victim isn't working for you, go after her widow. At least some federal prosecutors are demonstrating some integrity. Thin edge of the wedge?
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and its reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.
Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.
Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent last Wednesday.
Mr. Thompson, 47, a career prosecutor, objected to that approach as well as to the Justice Department’s refusal to include state officials in investigating whether the shooting itself was lawful, the people familiar with his decision said.
Two other senior career prosecutors, Harry Jacobs and Melinda Williams, also resigned on Tuesday. Mr. Jacobs had been Mr. Thompson’s deputy overseeing the fraud investigation, which began in 2022. Mr. Thompson, Mr. Jacobs and Ms. Williams declined to discuss the reasons they resigned.
The fraud cases — which involve schemes to defraud safety net programs managed by state agencies — were the chief reason the Trump administration launched an immigration crackdown in the state. The vast majority of defendants charged in the cases are of Somali origin.
Tuesday’s resignations followed tumultuous days at the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota as prosecutors struggled to manage the outrage over Ms. Good’s killing, which set off angry protests in Minnesota and across the nation.
Perhaps, but doing a crappy job on an assigned task is not the answer either--they will be fired and could put their licenses at stake. Making a public act like this is pretty the only thing that can be done; kind of like when Rcihardson and Ruckleshaus resigned rather than fire Cox (the Saturday night Massacre)--it made a fairly eloquent statement about the legality of Nixon's acts. Maybe these resignations can spark the same outrage. At least i still hope.Bicycle Bill wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 5:53 pmWhile I admire their fortitude in standing up and doing the right thing, I question the logic behind resigning. So long as they remain in place, they can provide some sort of check, however small or ultimately ineffective as it may be, against outrageous acts like this. But if they step aside, this will just provide openings, vacancies that will be quickly filled by some previously unknown individual whose only qualification is that he or she WILL do whatever Trump and his regime demand, no questions asked.Scooter wrote: ↑Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:19 pmWhen demonizing the victim isn't working for you, go after her widow. At least some federal prosecutors are demonstrating some integrity. Thin edge of the wedge?
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and its reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.
Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.
Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent last Wednesday.
Mr. Thompson, 47, a career prosecutor, objected to that approach as well as to the Justice Department’s refusal to include state officials in investigating whether the shooting itself was lawful, the people familiar with his decision said.
Two other senior career prosecutors, Harry Jacobs and Melinda Williams, also resigned on Tuesday. Mr. Jacobs had been Mr. Thompson’s deputy overseeing the fraud investigation, which began in 2022. Mr. Thompson, Mr. Jacobs and Ms. Williams declined to discuss the reasons they resigned.
The fraud cases — which involve schemes to defraud safety net programs managed by state agencies — were the chief reason the Trump administration launched an immigration crackdown in the state. The vast majority of defendants charged in the cases are of Somali origin.
Tuesday’s resignations followed tumultuous days at the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota as prosecutors struggled to manage the outrage over Ms. Good’s killing, which set off angry protests in Minnesota and across the nation.
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Federal Agent Shoots Immigrant in Minneapolis, Homeland Security Says
A federal agent shot and injured an immigrant in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, federal officials said, an incident that touched off clashes between protesters and law enforcement and that came just one week after an immigration agent killed a woman in the city.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement that federal agents were trying to arrest a man from Venezuela who was in the country illegally. She claimed that he fled from agents.
When the officer caught up to him, Ms. McLaughlin said he “began to resist and violently assault the officer,” and that two people came out of a nearby building and joined in attacking the officer with a snow shovel and broom handle.
The officer feared for his life, Ms. McLaughlin said, and fired shots, striking the man who agents were seeking in the leg. She said the agent and the man who was shot were in the hospital, and the other two people she accused of attacking the agent were in custody.
The federal government’s narrative could not immediately be verified. The conditions of the person who was shot and the agent were not immediately clear.
A social media post from the city said a reported shooting occurred on the city’s north side, and that local officials were working to confirm details. Minneapolis residents have protested repeatedly in the week since an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a woman, Renee Nicole Good, on the south side of Minneapolis.
As word of the latest shooting spread, at least 100 protesters gathered near the apparent scene on Wednesday night. A group of them yelled at Minneapolis police officers who had blocked the street to traffic, telling the local officers that the federal agents should be arrested.
Several heavily armed Border Patrol agents arrived in a large, military-style vehicle outside of the crime scene tape. Protesters swarmed the vehicle and yelled and threw snowballs at agents who had gotten out. The agents eventually retreated, and as they left, they fired at least two canisters of gas that made a loud bang and made it difficult for some to breathe.
A few minutes later, at least two ICE agents arrived in an unmarked S.U.V. and sprayed chemical agents in the faces of protesters who approached them, causing one protester to say that he could not see.
At one point, a protester fired several fireworks toward retreating ICE agents and their cars.
A Minneapolis police officer who identified himself as a supervisor to several protesters told them he did not know exactly what happened. “It’s not like they’re talking to us,” he said, referring to the federal agents on scene.
Some 3,000 federal immigration agents have flooded the Minneapolis area in recent weeks, angering residents and local officials. The Trump administration has defended the deployment as necessary to cracking down on illegal immigration and rooting out fraud.
Shortly before the latest shooting was reported on Wednesday night, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota gave a speech that called on the Trump administration to “end this occupation.”
Liish Kozlowski, a Democratic state representative, said that Minnesotans should be “enraged” by the report of another ICE-related shooting, adding that “we’ve been raising alarms that they are not here for public safety or for fraud or for the well-being of anybody, but to hunt and harm us.”
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
