The unit, which typically plays a leading role in reviewing cases nationwide in which law enforcement officers appear to violate people’s rights, has lost significant capacity to pursue investigations because of staff departures & new “guidance” under the #Trump admin curtailing its mandate, acc/to interviews with 7 former lawyers in the section.

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The number of trial #attorneys in the unit, known as the #Criminal Section of the #CivilRights Division, has dropped from roughly 40 before #Trump took office a year ago to no more than 13, acc/to 3 of the people with knowledge of its staffing. Just 2 supervisors remain in their roles & have not announced plans to leave. Previously, there have been around 7 supervisors in the unit.

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The former #DOJ lawyers, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation, expressed doubts about the ability of the section to conduct thorough investigations into recent incidents, including the fatal #shootings of #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti by federal #immigration agents in #Minneapolis last month. The DOJ has said it is investigating Pretti’s killing but not Good’s.

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…Former prosecutors who handled investigations of #police wrongdoing said their case loads dropped as #ExcessiveForce probes stalled last year.

The number of people charged with violating the #CivilRights #law most commonly used in federal excessive-force cases dropped about 36% last year to 54 total cases, the lowest number since 2020, according to a Reuters analysis of federal court dockets obtained from Westlaw.

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In one sign of the section’s new direction, #CivilRights prosecutors are handling the case against former CNN anchor #DonLemon & 8 others accused of disrupting a #Minnesota church service last month [100% not a #UseOfForce case] in #protest of #immigration enforcement, acc/to court records [Lemon was there as a journalist not a protester].

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