More resignations of federal prosecutors are expected at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota amid ongoing frustration over the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
“I have heard there may be more people leaving, people I would consider senior and respected career prosecutors,” said Anders Folk, a former acting US attorney in Minnesota, who left the office in 2021 to work for the Justice Department in Washington, DC, under former President Biden.
Minnesota Federal Defender Katherian Roe, in a staffwide email obtained by the Sahan Journal, also wrote that “more resignations are anticipated” at the US Attorney’s Office. “It’s a sign that something is not right” there, added Folk, who is still in touch with colleagues in the office and is now running for Hennepin County Attorney.
Already this week, at least five federal prosecutors in Minnesota announced their resignations. Among them was the office’s second-in-command, Joseph Thompson, who was overseeing the welfare fraud investigation involving Somali immigrants that President Trump used as a pretext to send his immigration force to Minneapolis.
It says to encourage people in these jobs to think in reverse and do a shit job, it doesn’t say to take a job for the purposes of doing a shit job. You’re supposed to find people already employed, use a sense of humor, encourage them to fuck off and be careless, do the opposite of what’s told. The subjects are people who aren’t going to quit their jobs because they can’t. They have families depending on them, they may be employed in compulsory positions, like required military service.
In any case it was written about mechanics and guards, not career civil rights attorneys, a different beast entirely.