"Harmeet Dhillon, a right-wing activist picked by Trump to be the Department of Justice's Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, is one of the more inconspicuously evil forces behind the DOJ's injustice era. Since her nomination in December 2024, she's used her post to go full-send on the president's anti-DEI initiatives, destroy much of the division's former work to uncover instances of unconstitutional policing, and has reconstructed CRT so much so that hundreds of employees left their jobs."
"As of Friday, she's also reportedly refused to open an investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good-and at least four top CRT officials have resigned in protest, three people familiar with the matter told MS Now. 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 President Donald Trump's orders to dismiss the bribery case against then-New York mayor Eric Adams. Typically, the criminal section of the CRT-which was created in 1957 to focus oncivil rights laws- is responsible for investigating any kind of fatal shooting by any kind of law enforcement officer."
Harmeet Dhillon, appointed Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, pursued aggressive anti-DEI policies, dismantled prior division efforts to expose unconstitutional policing, and reorganized CRT, causing hundreds of employees to leave. She declined to open a DOJ investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, and at least four top CRT officials resigned in protest. The departures include chief, principal deputy chief, deputy chief, and acting deputy chief, marking the most significant mass resignation at DOJ since February. Multiple career prosecutors volunteered to investigate, while CRT officials decided not to open an inquiry.
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