Six left the Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights. Six more left the United States Attorney’s office for Minnesota. These aren’t radical left lunatics, as our president likes to call anyone who doesn’t bend to his will, but Assistant United States Attorneys, prosecutors if you will, who got their marching orders and decided to walk instead.

Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.

Joe Thompson, who was in charge of the fraud investigation that was used to justify the surge, was one of the six to leave.

Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday.

Mr. Thompson, 47, a career prosecutor, objected to that approach, as well as to the Justice Department’s refusal to include state officials in investigating whether the shooting itself was lawful, the people familiar with his decision said.

Initially, the investigation was to include the state together with the feds, but that didn’t last long.

Mr. Thompson had originally set out to investigate the shooting in partnership with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a state agency that reviews police shootings. Senior Justice Department officials overruled the decision to cooperate with the state agency.

To be clear, every police shooting, killing, would normally be subject to a thorough investigation. It’s supposed to be unbiased, although that’s more aspirational given the nature of who’s doing the investigating. Still, that’s how it’s supposed to work. Or at least how it used to work.

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said in a statement that “there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into the ICE agent.

The reason this would fall under civil rights is that killings are criminalized under state law, whereas federal law relates to the deprivation of a constitutional right, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Take away a life and it’s a civil rights violation. Or at least it used to be.

Mr. Thompson strenuously objected to the decision not to investigate the shooting as a civil rights matter, and was outraged by the demand to launch a criminal investigation into Becca Good, according to the people familiar with the developments, who were not authorized to discuss them publicly.

Instead of investigating the shooting to determine whether it was a good/bad shoot, or to be less conclusory. what in fact happened given the fact that Trump, Noem, et al., concluded it was self-defense after the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, was “run over” by Renee Good, despite the fact that he wasn’t run over and shot at least the second and third rounds point blank into her open window at her head.

But that doesn’t mean the feds won’t be doing any investigating. Instead, they will investigate Good and her widow, Rebecca, for their ties to “domestic terrorism.”

Instead, the Justice Department launched an investigation to examine ties between Ms. Good and her wife, Becca, and several groups that have been monitoring and protesting the conduct of immigration agents in recent weeks. Shortly after Wednesday’s fatal shooting, Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, referred to Ms. Good as a “domestic terrorist.”

Were they part of some radical left lunatic domestic terrorism organization? Does such an organization even exist, outside of the fevered imaginations of Trump and Noem? There is nothing that Trump and Noem would rather find out so they can taint the dead woman and her wife as either being unworthy of public concern or deserved to die (who cares if the brave hero ICE agent killed some domestic terrorist, who asked for it).

While the MAGA faithful have girded their loins in support of Ross, whose “givesendgo” donation site is up to $261,000, with a $10,000 donation from Bill Ackman, as a reward for getting rid of this blond terrorist, egged on by agitators.

But this didn’t happen in a vacuum—it’s the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey* fanning the flames of resistance. Frey blasted ICE after the incident, telling them to “get the f— out” of his city, signing executive orders banning federal agents from using city property for deportations and even warning that ICE agents could get “killed” if they keep removing invaders from his sanctuary cesspool. His rhetoric empowers violent agitators, turning Minneapolis into a warzone for our heroes enforcing the law and deporting the hordes that weak leaders like him protect.

Had the 12 AUSAs either supported, or at least acquiesced, in this narrative pushed by the administration, they might have quietly stayed behind, perhaps begging off an assignment relating to denigrating the victim. No one would have been the wiser had they decided not to quit in protest. But they did, as have other prosecutors who have refused to soil their integrity or abandon their principles for the sake of surviving the Trump Department of Justice. Another dozen voted against the Trump administration’s abuse of law to further his political narrative, and they walked. Their steps should ring loud in your ears.

*Originally, the words “a jew” followed the name, but it was later removed.