At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section’s head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
Top leaders of the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division have left their jobs to register their frustration with the department after the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon decided not to investigate the ICE officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good last week.
The criminal section of the division would normally investigate any fatal shooting by a law enforcement officer and specializes in probing potential or alleged abuse or improper use of force by law enforcement.
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 Donald Trump’s orders to dismiss the bribery case against then-New York mayor Eric Adams.
If you don’t resign when your job demands you be complicit, at some point you are just following orders.
Yeah that’s what they did. And if they stayed there you’d still be calling them fascists. There’s nothing they can actually do, it’s resign or get fired anyway.
This is incredibly shortsighted. It’s the same logic for “why don’t soldiers just refuse illegal orders?”
The reason is that this is real life and not a movie. What do you think happens after you refuse because your think you’re being asked for something illegal? Your boss high fives you and says sorry?
They tell you you are wrong, you either do it or you’re fired with cause and you can say bye bye to any sort of unemployment insurance.
Disagree? Okay bro go prove that in court. I hope you have better lawyers and deeper pockets than the company you’re now litigating with.
I also hope you don’t have any rent, family or need for groceries, because you ain’t getting any money while litigating and looking for a new job.
But yeah. Just refuse bro. Ez. Fascists hate this one simple trick.
Used to work at a company that was selling computer equipment to terrorist organizations. They wanted an engineer to work with compliance to basically, very illegally, “reclassify” components so that they could get them to shady organizations more easily (figured this out after I had already accepted the position).
I could’ve just quit. But then they would’ve found some other engineer to do the work, and probably quite easily (they were paying well).
Instead I just refused to do what they asked of me. Got yelled at, they tried everything possible to get me to quit (moving my desk alone in the warehouse where it was freezing, making up rumors about me, etc). Still, it took them a year to finally find a reason to fire me (and still, it was without cause, so I got unemployment too). That’s 1 year that I wasted for them.
Most companies aren’t going to go through the hassle of firing for cause, because that opens them up to lawsuits. They will likely just take the hit of having to pay into unemployment, and lay you off instead.
It is possible to say No. You might get yelled at and be treated like shit, but at the end of the day, I knew I was doing the right thing. And that’s what’s most important, in my opinion.
People say “well if I say No, they’ll just fire me on the spot”, but have you actually tried to say No? If they do fire you, then make them go through the hassle of firing you, and for fucks sake, fight back!
If I can do it, anyone can do it.
Don’t you lose any employment insurance coverage if you quit?
Probably, but on the flip side if you have retirement, you may be remaking it getting fired/discharged (in the military branches anyway).
My personal passive aggressive response to requests for work I disagree with is to drag my feet until it’s either forgotten or too late. It’s worked surprisingly well so far.
What do I think or what do I know?
I’ve refused orders, been threatened with a legitimate mutiny case, saved people from being sacrificial goats…
If you want to ask questions that’s one thing, but I have no idea where any of your assumptions came from…
Like:
That’s just a wild opinion to have.
Have you ever even met anyone that works for the federal government in any capacity?
Just don’t do the illegal thing
Great advice. Thanks Nancy Reagan.
“Remember kids, Winners don’t do drugs!”