Six federal prosecutors resigned on Tuesday after reportedly pushing back against a Department of Justice order to investigate the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent last week in Minneapolis.
The resignation also comes one day after four leaders of a federal Justice Department unit that investigates police killings also resigned in protest of the administration’s investigation into Good’s death.
Among those who resigned on Tuesday was Joseph H. Thompson, the prosecutor who led a recent investigation into wide-scale fraud in Minnesota, according to multiple reports. Thompson was selected by President Donald Trump last summer to briefly serve as acting U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, and oversaw the case against the man accused of shooting and killing state House Speaker Melissa Hortman.