Overview
- Deputy U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson and five colleagues left the Minnesota office, rejecting directives to open a criminal inquiry into Becca Good.
- The Justice Department has kept state authorities at the margins of the probe, declined a civil-rights case against the ICE agent, and removed its civil-rights team from the investigation.
- Minnesota sued the federal government under the Tenth Amendment to force the withdrawal of ICE and related teams, with Minneapolis and Saint Paul joining the case and Illinois and Chicago filing similar actions.
- Protests continue in Minneapolis after the killing of Renee Nicole Good, with residents sharing videos that accuse federal agents of aggressive and discriminatory tactics and local leaders decrying an escalating posture.
- Homeland Security reports more than 2,000 immigration arrests since early December, and the administration says it plans to dispatch 1,000 additional agents to Minnesota on top of roughly 2,000 already in Minneapolis.