Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, the top local prosecutor in Minneapolis, told Reuters the local U.S. Attorney’s Office has been so hobbled by departures and diversions to immigration enforcement that U.S. agents have started bringing complex cases to her office instead – a rare tactic for federal investigators.

“You can’t tell me that sex trafficking and drug trafficking and that kind of thing is less important than people going into a church to protest,” Moriarty said. “It’s a public safety issue that they’re not doing the types of prosecutions they should be doing.”

Moriarty declined to identify the cases federal investigators brought to her office out of concern about alienating their agencies.

The immigration crackdown became the nation’s latest flashpoint over the administration’s military-style policing strategy as about 3,000 agents swarmed the icy streets of Minneapolis starting in December. Agents pulled people from cars and schools to deport them and fatally shot two U.S. citizen protesters, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, sparking national outrage that eventually led to the administration’s retreat from Minneapolis.

The city’s policing slowdown reflects a larger shifting of U.S. crime-fighting resources to immigration enforcement, often detaining undocumented people with no criminal record. Nationwide, the number of people charged with criminal immigration violations last year was the highest in at least two decades, while the number charged with drug crimes was the lowest.

The U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, Daniel Rosen, did not respond to questions about the slowdown.

The Justice Department and the White House did not directly address the court records showing a sharp decline in federal criminal prosecutions so far this year. Justice Department spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre said “assisting our partners with immigration enforcement has not impacted our ability to investigate and swiftly prosecute other crimes.” A spokeswoman for the White House, Abigail Jackson, said Trump “has taken necessary action in Minnesota to crack down on rampant fraud and illegal immigration.”

FEDERAL HELP FOR LOCAL CRIME-FIGHTING ‘NOT THERE ANYMORE’
Federal authorities handle only a fraction of U.S. criminal cases but play an outsized role in public safety because they have the time and resources to pursue difficult investigations of the most dangerous criminals. Federal authorities have capabilities to monitor and track suspected criminals that are not always available at the state level, for instance, and can more easily pursue plots across state borders.

State and local authorities rely on the unique resources and reach of their federal partners, said John Marti, a former federal prosecutor who once served as acting U.S. Attorney in Minnesota.

“That’s not there anymore,” he said, because so many attorneys have left and the government has focused so heavily on immigration. The result, he said, will be more violent criminals “who are not apprehended and stopped.”

The change in Minnesota since the immigration crackdown has been so abrupt that it could have a lasting impact on traditional crime fighting, law enforcement officials there told Reuters. One official who participated in the immigration enforcement surge said federal authorities’ ability to pursue violent felons could be hampered for years by the “ripple effects” of the administration’s overwhelming immigration focus.

To examine the impact of Trump’s immigration crackdown on federal law enforcement in Minnesota, Reuters used court dockets from Westlaw, a legal research service. Westlaw and Reuters are both divisions of Thomson Reuters.

The news organization counted cases on the federal district court’s criminal docket, where the most serious matters are filed. It did not count cases brought before federal magistrates, who typically handle lower-level offenses. In some cases, Reuters used artificial intelligence to help categorize the charges people faced. A review of a random set of records showed its assessments to be 98% accurate.

Administration officials said the Minneapolis crackdown was needed to deter crime, including a social-services fraud scandal dating back to 2022 that had resulted in prosecutions of many Somali Americans.

But the Reuters review found authorities brought two new wire-fraud cases to court between January and April, neither of which was related to government benefits. Federal and state law-enforcement agencies last week carried out a series of searches in Minnesota of social-welfare organizations that they described as part of a fraud investigation.

DISAPPEARING AGENTS AND ATTORNEYS
Although Minneapolis does not rank among the most dangerous U.S. cities, federal authorities there had in recent years made battling violent crime one of their top priorities.

Soon after the Minneapolis surge started, local authorities said, some federal agents already posted in Minnesota started disappearing from anti-drug taskforces and helping with immigration enforcement, though they could not say how many. “They’re experiencing significant disruptions because agents are being reassigned,” said Robert Small, the executive director of the Minnesota County Attorneys Association.

Some agents had been diverted from street-crime investigations to immigration before the surge, according to two people familiar with the matter. Agents, they said, often reported being unavailable on some days as they pursued immigration enforcement.

The operation also set off an exodus from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, where several prosecutors left rather than carry out an order to investigate the widow of Good, the woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.

Then more attorneys followed. The rash of departures left the office with about half its usual complement of about 50 attorneys, two people familiar with its staffing told Reuters. Five of the six supervisors in the office’s criminal section left, according to the two people and one additional source, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal dynamics.

Since then, the Justice Department has rotated in a succession of military lawyers and prosecutors from other states as temporary replacements.
Still, shorthanded federal prosecutors have struggled to bring new cases – or even manage those launched before the immigration operation. In February, a judge in Minneapolis dismissed a case federal prosecutors filed last year against Tavon Timberlake, who they accused of being a felon in possession of a firearm. After prosecutors missed deadlines, sometimes citing staff shortages, the judge said Timberlake had been denied his right to a speedy trial and ended the case.

Last week, federal prosecutors asked a court for permission to drop their case against a man accused of a carjacking in which two people were killed and a six-year-old child was injured, saying in a court filing that local prosecutors would pursue charges instead.

Even as they struggled to pursue such serious crimes, federal prosecutors found time to arrest and charge dozens of people protesting Trump’s immigration crackdown. In addition to the felony charges related to the protest inside a church, prosecutors charged 40 more people with mostly low-level violations related to clashes with federal agents. They swiftly dropped about half the cases, court records show.

One attorney familiar with the operations of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis described it as severely restricted in its ability to pursue more traditional cases: “They’re just trying to hang on.”

>>1512645
Imagine if the police had actually cooperate with the feds instead of doing nothing. The police could have stopped those two retards from killing themselves

>>1512644
>Although Minneapolis does not rank among the most dangerous U.S. cities,
Most violent crimes are policed and prosecuted by the states using state laws. Federal agents don't need to be doing that work when it is the state police and state courts. Immigration crimes are federal crimes or federal policy. After all, the sanctuary cities were all about state and local governments obstructing or not assisting federal police.

>>1512654
>It's not our fault we deployed a bunch of violent retards who trampled on people's rights and are literally too stupid to follow their own guidelines
>You should've had the police following them around as a tard guard

>>1512661
Hey, MAGA retards conducted their war on Minneapolis with the same level of care and attention they did in Iran.

>>1512661
>I have a right to ram my car into federal agents!
Keep telling yourselves that.

>>1512667
>Retard gets in front of a moving car against his own agency's protocol and then executes the driver instead of stepping to the side, again against his own agency's protocol
Considering they apparently started deploying him elsewhere and the Good incident wasn't even his first fucking time being retarded around a car, I fully expect the next time we hear of him is a report of him getting hit by one

>>1512668
>a cop stands in front of my car
>therefore it's okay for me to ram him while trying to evade arrest
>I know my rights!
lol

>>1512669
>Cop stands in front of car as you're K-turning out
>Move to avoid hitting him anyway
>Retard promptly puts everyone at the scene in danger by fucking executing you immediately, disobeying even his own rules for how to engage a moving vehicle
Again, next time we see Ross it's gonna be because he decided to fuck around with a car again and get dragged.

>>1512670
>>Move to avoid hitting him anyway
This is a big tell that non-Americans are shilling this crap.
You're always supposed to yield to pedestrians.

>>1512670
>>Cop stands in front of car as you're K-turning out
>Cop was already in front of the car recording a 360 of the vehicle when she decided she didn't want to be put in handcuffs

>>Move to avoid hitting him anyway
>still hits him

>>Retard promptly puts everyone at the scene in danger by fucking executing you immediately,
>upon getting hit by a car, he shoots at the driver ramming him and hits her in less than a second

>>disobeying even his own rules for how to engage a moving vehicle
>still pushing this lie. Cops are allowed to shoot people ramming them with cars.

>I know my rights! I'm allowed to flee arrest and run over police to escape! I thought this was America!
lmao keep coping over this dumb lesbian.

>>1512672
Now all the ESL shilling for Trump makes sense
Pedestrians are people walking from place to place
Pedophiles rape children.
Learn the difference

>>1512674
Look at those wheels spin.
Many such cases.

>Libs just have to deal with our retards moving into their city and murdering them
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/gop-midterm-prospects-darken-as-trump-approval-falls/
>NOOO YOU HAVE TO LET US KILL YOU
>YOU CANT VOTE US OUT
>JUST SAY SHE DESERVED TO DIE
>NOOOOOOOO

>>1512641
Oh now we are supposed to care about crimes?

>>1512673
>Lies lies lies lies
Yeah there's a reason this admin is doing everything in their power to avoid Ross actually going to trial, because they know the literal protocol of ICE and the DHS forbid everything he did (getting in front of a moving car, opening fire on a moving car when he had clear room to avoid it, shooting through the side window after the car was past him) and he'll get convicted. Oh, and it'll expose their little lie that he needed medical attention when discovery asks for medical records and documentation that don't actually exist.

But hey maybe he'll be retarded enough to fuck around with a car a third time and get his head popped against the pavement like that guy in the last episode of Sopranos.

>>1512677
Stop driving your cars into them and maybe they won't shoot you? Also you asked for this with the sanctuary city bullshit. Dems knew that by refusing to cooperate with the federal government and threatening to fire their police if they turn illegals that have been put in jail to ICE for deportation, that this would force the federal government to send agents into these cities and arrest everyone, so the dems could use that to make the president look bad.

But hey, don't take my word for it. Look at Sheriff Chad Bianco (based name) running for Governor of CA:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F_Ard8Lf6BE

tl;dr dems knew this would happen and they wanted it.

>>1512682
>nuuuuhhh uuuuuuuuuhhhhh
Keep coping. You don't have a right to ram cops.

>because they know the literal protocol of ICE and the DHS forbid everything he did
lol they don't.

>getting in front of a moving car,
It wasn't moving when he was in front of it.

>opening fire on a moving car when he had clear room to avoid it
He didn't, which is why he got hit.

>shooting through the side window after the car was past him
Shots were fired in less than a second - as most defensive shootings are - and the first round went through her windshield, because he was in FRONT of her car. And as a bonus, tell me you don't know shit about firearms without telling me.

>Oh, and it'll expose their little lie that he needed medical attention when discovery asks for medical records and documentation that don't actually exist.
>Source: my ass.

>But hey maybe he'll be retarded enough to fuck around with a car a third time and get his head popped against the pavement like that guy in the last episode of Sopranos.
>Oh boy I hope this federal agent dies. I'm such a victim! Why won't you feel bad for me?!?

>>1512686
>lol they don't.
they literally do lmao
>https://www.justice.gov/jm/1-16000-department-justice-policy-use-force
>Specifically, firearms may not be discharged at a moving vehicle unless: (1) a person in the vehicle is threatening the officer or another person with deadly force by means other than the vehicle; or (2) the vehicle is operated in a manner that threatens to cause death or serious physical injury to the officer or others, and no other objectively reasonable means of defense appear to exist, which includes moving out of the path of the vehicle.
>includes moving out of the path of the vehicle

>He didn't, which is why he got hit.
He didn't get hit lol. We have no less than four perspectives of the incident, including from Ross' own phone, and not a single one shows a single frame of contact.

>>Oh boy I hope this federal agent dies. I'm such a victim! Why won't you feel bad for me?!?
Hey I'm just pointing out he's got a pattern of being retarded around cars. Longer he stays in service the more of a chance his luck runs out next time he decides to try grabbing onto a car or standing in front of one. Also, he's a murderer, so don't expect anyone to shed tears if he meets the reaper early.

>>1512688
>>includes moving out of the path of the vehicle
Which he couldn't do in time before being hit.

>He didn't get hit lol.
He did lol. We've got four perspectives showing her make contact with his hips hard enough to shove him, and we have him being sent to the hospital afterwards.

>Hey I'm just pointing out he's got a pattern of being retarded around cars.
Or a pattern of seething libs ramming police and federal agents with their cars.

>Also, he's a murderer,
Self-defense isn't murder. You retards tried this argument with Rittenhouse.

>so don't expect anyone to shed tears if he meets the reaper early.
Don't expect any tears for your dumbass lesbian who rammed a cop with her car.

>>1512689
>Which he couldn't do in time before being hit.
>He had no time to get out of the way of the incredibly slow moving car he deliberately got in front of

>We've got four perspectives showing her make contact with his hips hard enough to shove him
lol his own perspective shows him moving backwards to draw his gun. Again, provide a single frame of the car making contact with him. You can't.

BTW, we have absolutely no hospital records and it isn't like this admin is adverse to lying. Never find it a bit strange his apparently somewhat severe injuries never had a single photo released as proof?

The Trump administration is trying everything in their power to impede the investigation of Ross because he'd be found guilty, and of state charges too. He's going to prison eventually unless he ironically flees the country.

>>1512690
>>He had no time to get out of the way of the incredibly slow moving car he deliberately got in front of
>that was moving with enough force to ram his hips and push his body to the side as he was firing

>lol his own perspective shows him moving backwards to draw his gun.
Wrong, dumbass. His own perspective shows him moving from the passenger side to the driver's side when he's hit. Which means he was moving from one side to the other. I know it's complicated to understand but look at the video about 20 times and maybe you'll get it.

>Again, provide a single frame of the car making contact with him. You can't.
We have three other camera angles showing him get bumped, and everytime you play this game we'll point out the timestamp of the frame, so you can go "nuhhh uuuhhh i don't see anything!" as he's clearly being pushed.

>BTW, we have absolutely no hospital records
They're not going to release his medical information and violate HIPAA, just to satisfy your conspiracy theories.

>Never find it a bit strange his apparently somewhat severe injuries never had a single photo released as proof?
Why, when you can't even accept four videos of him getting rammed as proof.

>He's going to prison eventually unless he ironically flees the country.
lol sure anon. Keep telling yourselves that too.


And the crazy thing is this all could have been avoided if Renee didn't try to flee arrest after harassing federal agents, and rammed her car into an officer. But unfortunately you people are dumb enough to think you have the right to do that.

>>1512691
>You have to deal with cops killing American Cit-
https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_1cc84b1e-9095-11ee-b85d-5b43f0b5601b.html
Nope, not last time, not this time

>>1512691
>No no there's totally proof he got hit
>You just like, wouldn't believe me even if I showed it so like, I'm not gonna

Yeah that and the blatant obstruction of the investigation isn't gonna help his case. The Trump DOJ can only stall for so long though; it'll be fun watching him become the next Chauvin. At least he'll have company as soon as they get to Alex Pretti's murderers too.

Why does it matter if the person executed was a lesbian?

>>1512692
>Whataboutism
lmao

>>1512693
>gets hit so hard it knocks his cell phone out of his hand
>she never touched him!
lol so much cope. Please keep trying to ram feds with your cars. I'll be here laughing at you.

>>1512697
>>gets hit so hard it knocks his cell phone out of his hand
Lmao you're flailing so bad you can't even acknowledge him putting his cellphone down to draw his gun. You realize we can literally see the exact moment he draws, right?

>>1512698
>implying flailing
kek

>you can't even acknowledge him putting his cellphone down to draw his gun.
>he already had his gun in his hand.

>You realize we can literally see the exact moment he draws, right?
>right before he's hit by her car

>retard leftist still thinks he has the right to hit cops with his car
lmao how's that acab thing working out for you?

>>1512695
Yeah, you pretended Chauvin was acting lawfully and celebrated death there
Now he's getting raped with knives and dicks in federal prison

Ross is next

>>1512703
>Yeah, you pretended Chauvin was acting lawfully and celebrated death there
And where did I do that anon? Can you please show me my post doing that?

>>1512701
>>right before he's hit by her car
>right before
Thanks for admitting that he dropped his phone before he got "hit". So there goes your whole "She hit him so hard he dropped his phone!" claim.

>>1512705
>If I keep coping I can explain away a murder
It didn't work for the pedophilia or corruption, but keep it up shill

>>1512705
>Thanks for admitting that he dropped his phone before he got "hit".
... Anon... He has two hands....

Holy shit you people are dumb.

>>1512707
You can see on his own video he drops his phone to pull out his gun. And the bystander video shows his phone wasn't up at the same time his gun was drawn. Therefore your whole "see he got hit because the impact made him drop his phone" story is bullshit, but thanks for debunking yourself.

>>1512708
>You can see on his own video he drops his phone to pull out his gun.
Here let me play your game this time: show me the frame where you see his gun in the video he took. Timestamp it.

>ESL Shilling intensifies

>>1512709
>https://youtu.be/UHXkt3mBI-A?t=135
>Ross's gun in hand
>Other hand with phone in it is down
And from his perspective:
>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/swikOsuOZLw?t=53&feature=share
>Fires right after his phone isn't pointed at the car

>>1512712
LMAO not only do you see him fire one handed but you can also see him getting pushed by her car. Damn near spun around.

I thought you said she never touched him with it?

You all still talking about this retard cop?

Let’s not forget what the article was about.

Trump fucked up and interrupted law and order.

He’s a bad president and should never have been elected.

>>1512713
>fire one handed
With his other hand down, which lines up with every video of the incident. When he pulls the trigger, his hand holding his phone isn't up.

>Damn near spun around.
He took a step back. Now, I showed you the frames proving he didn't have his phone knocked out of his hand, can you show the frame where the car makes contact?

>>1512715
>When he pulls the trigger, his hand holding his phone isn't up.
Because he's being hit by a car.

Again, I thought you said she never touched him with it. Did the car make contact with the agent? Yes or no. (watch as he doesn't answer)

>>1512716
hes winning this one, but sure

>>1512716
>Did the car make contact with the agent? Yes or no
Nope.

He put his hand down when he pulled out his gun. Also, he didn't "drop" his phone considering it never leaves his hand as you can see thanks to how it doesn't drop to the floor in his own video.

>>1512721
>Nope.
>you can see his hips pushed by the car as he fires
>his hips not in line with his shoulders
Yeah anon I too like to shoot guns while doing the Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal lean. lol

>>1512716
>Can't post frames where car makes contact
Again, amazing how we have like 4 different angles of the incident and not a single one can provide a frame of the car actually hitting him. Almost like it didn't and the hospital story was a lie to cover that up.

>>1512722
You got a timestamp for that claim? Because you seem awfully confident of it even though neither video shows that.

Besides, this guy is so unprofessional I wouldn't put it past him to have shit shooting stance too.

>>1512723
>Again, amazing how we have like 4 different angles of the incident and not a single one can provide a frame of the car actually hitting him.
>his own timestamped video shows him being hit
lol

>>1512724
>You got a timestamp for that claim?
Yeah, yours. >>1512712

i'm sure this is a productive thread. it almost made me forget about the epstein files

>>1512735
The Epstein files are a distraction
If you really cared about them you would have cared before January 20th, 2025, and would have asked the guy you voted for to release them.

>>1512737
are you really so easily baited into losing this argument again, esl shill? sheesh

>>1512724
>>1512726
>his own timestamped video shows him being hit
It doesn't lol. He steps back.

>>1512739
He’s got a point, there are even worse esl shills that exist in the us government who are VIOLATING the rules of the internet. ALL 77 OF THEM.

>>1512667
>>1512669
Can you show me the evidence that she tried to run him over?

>>1512654
imagine if they followed the constitution:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/01/22/vance-defends-ice-memo-telling-agents-they-can-raid-homes-without-a-judges-warrant/