At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section’s head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
Top leaders of the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division have left their jobs to register their frustration with the department after the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon decided not to investigate the ICE officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good last week.
The criminal section of the division would normally investigate any fatal shooting by a law enforcement officer and specializes in probing potential or alleged abuse or improper use of force by law enforcement.
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 Donald Trump’s orders to dismiss the bribery case against then-New York mayor Eric Adams.
All resigning does is let them easily replace you with someone that agrees with them.
If you think you need to resign, stay and make them go thru the hassle of firing you. Drag it out, file complaints, get the union.
Even if it’s the same result a year later, that’s a year without one more maga bootlicker doing your job.
Also, get on the soapbox. Even if you can’t apply social pressure, you can at least inform the people.
Yeah I wouldn’t work under questionable and actively disingenuous leadership, especially if they’re also ethically clashing with mine, so I get their reaction extremely well.
I couldn’t do it, so I can’t expect others to, but it’s a sad and bitter fact that it just leaves more room for the rot to fester.
But I personally think that the more the rot spreads, the more immediate the threat will seem to most, the more obvious the need for change, then perhaps that’ll encourage more action elsewhere. At best, the rot spreads too fast for its own good and ultimately kills the host. Once the ship goes down, the people can get together to rebuild. With more safeguards and more robust systems.
I couldn’t do it,
If you can say “I resign” you can say “this is illegal and I’m not complying”.
“Top DOJ officials caved to the slightest pressure, derelicted their duties and handed over their power to the fascist regime. America’s dictator will soon appoint more loyalists to their positions.”
Yep. I’ve gotten skewered online for pointing out how these protest resignations do nothing but serves the fascists interests, by opening up the slot to be filled by a loyal SS member.
if the doj won’t bring this asshole to justice, i really hope someone else will.
ICE in general should have really wanted the process to play out, or at least delay public reaction.
This just pisses people off, ups the temperature even more, and incites greater risk than just going through an investigation.
The road to fascism is paved with resignations.
Yes, quit. THAT’LL show em.
Cowards.
- Try to fight the fire; or
- Leave the area to a safe distance
Here, the safe distance may be Australia.
I like how you wanted them to stay, with its strong “some of you may die, and that’s a price I’m willing to pay” vibes.
Without complaining and lashing out, is there a benefit from them resigning?
Can’t be held liable during the next set of Nuremberg trials?
Well, that’s good for them, but what about the American people?
To be fair, the question asked was only, is there a benefit and i did answer that. So, don’t go moving the goal posts!
On a serious note, to answer your question briefly as one of those “American people”: i do sense a change in the air. I don’t think it’s a general strike or civil war, but there’s definitely people paying attention who hadn’t otherwise before. And that engagement? They are pissed.
The long answer is this: Everyone just watched a government agent kill a white mother and then lie about what happened. They see the news coverage spreading that lie. Everyone knows the poem, “First They Came” by Martin Niemöller and with this, they realized we are already 4 lines into it. Racist fucks can’t just hand wave this away as a statistic anymore.
And it’s not like shit is getting any better for us, it’s not like prices are going down! Between the Epstein list shit, Venezuela and Greenland, inflation, shrinkflation, and products being recalled for listeria or lead/metal/glass shavings, now we have masked fat asses terrorizing/killing us then opening lying about it?! And then calling US the terrorists? Nah. That’s not even mentioning the absolutely bat shit levels of corruption happening that’s practically being admitted to right in the open.
So some good news about us. Something i noticed start in 2020 with covid lock downs was that our culture started to shift towards “homesteading” or trying to make everything yourself, because you knew the quality is better than store bought, and in the majority of cases, cheaper. But recently, people have started to go full in, and i think this is the angle where a general strike can foment from!
People DO NOT want corporate slop anymore. There’s a growing want for local businesses, and they will start to come back offering better, locally made items. Sure it’ll be a bit more expensive, but the prices for those lower quality goods are going up too.
This is hopefully going to reduce corporate influence and bring communities closer together, since not every individual can make everything they’ll ever need. With stronger communities, this “fear of the other” dissipates. I’ve started to see it in my neighborhood. As word spreads, more people start to see what is happening. I’ve already been to city and town halls discussing AI data centers and the places are FUCKING PACKED, to the point they move it to larger areas and it’s still over flowing out into the halls and parking lots.
We were already banding together, but every one of their fuck ups, brings us even closer together. Just look at those bad asses in PA; the Black Panthers, resurfacing and showing up for their community. More will come.
2nd am the killers.
Tbf its past time for The People to be in the streets on a general strike. The People need to take responsibility and act.
These individuals held out a good while, not sure how much evil they had to do personally on a daily basis.
deleted by creator
By resigning they’re just making things easier for them. Cowards.
Are these the officials of the same doj that has been blocking release of the epstein files?
