More than 300 former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys are pleading with Attorney General Pam Bondi to abide by decades of settled standards and allow state and local officials to investigate the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
As the 303 ex-DOJ prosecutors and civil rights attorneys write in a letter to Bondi postmarked Wednesday, blocking local investigations into Good and Pretti’s deaths at the hands of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents would not just signify a “severe departure from established DOJ norms,” but also “pose a serious threat to the rule of law.”
On Jan. 7, Good, a Minneapolis mother and activist, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent as she drove her SUV away from law enforcement officers. Federal immigration agents had been in the state since at least December, when the Trump administration launched “Operation Metro Surge.”…