{"id":2095,"date":"2026-01-15T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:53:08","slug":"top-federal-minnesota-prosecutors-officially-terminated-after-dispute-over-ice-shooting-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/top-federal-minnesota-prosecutors-officially-terminated-after-dispute-over-ice-shooting-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Top federal Minnesota prosecutors officially terminated after dispute over ICE shooting probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2099\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/top-federal-minnesota-prosecutors-officially-terminated-after-dispute-over-ice-shooting-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2099 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/news-minnesota-nyc-anti-ice-protest-ice-shooting-800-400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/news-minnesota-nyc-anti-ice-protest-ice-shooting-800-400-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/news-minnesota-nyc-anti-ice-protest-ice-shooting-800-400-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/news-minnesota-nyc-anti-ice-protest-ice-shooting-800-400-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NYC Protest &#8211; Just won&#8217;t stop hating America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Minnesota federal prosecutor Joseph Thompson and four others gave notice of their resignations after disagreements about the ICE-involved shooting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Several federal prosecutors in Minnesota were formally fired on Wednesday after they gave notice that they had resigned in the wake of internal disagreements over the Justice Department\u2019s handling of a shooting investigation involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The DOJ, at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, terminated the employment of five prosecutors in the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office in Minnesota, including Joseph Thompson, the No. 2 official there, according to two sources familiar with the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Their resignations and the internal disputes about the shooting probe first surfaced in the New York Times. The prosecutors were positioned to receive paid leave for months prior to their firings on Wednesday, according to the sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Source: <em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/top-federal-minnesota-prosecutors-officially-terminated-after-dispute-over-ice-shooting-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top federal Minnesota prosecutors officially terminated after dispute over ICE shooting probe<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota federal prosecutor Joseph Thompson and four others gave notice of their resignations after disagreements about the ICE-involved shooting. Several federal prosecutors in Minnesota were formally fired on Wednesday after they gave notice that they had resigned in the wake of internal disagreements over the Justice Department\u2019s handling of a shooting investigation involving Immigration and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-opinion","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}