WASHINGTON—The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division says there is no merit to an MS Now report alleging that top DOJ officials quit their jobs over an alleged division decision not to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good.

The report from the outlet formerly known as MSNBC alleged that at least four officials from the Civil Rights Division resigned “in protest over the administration’s handling” of Good’s death, citing “three people briefed on the departures.”

MS Now reported that their frustration was specifically with Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon for her decision not to investigate the incident, writing that the departures “represent the most significant mass resignation at the Justice Department since February.”

There’s a problem with this reporting, however: according to Dhillon and her staff, there has not been a single resignation over the incident.

“This is fake news,” Dhillon told The Daily Wire of the story. “No division employee quit.”

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Three people applied for early retirement the day before the shooting, which occurred on January 7 in Minneapolis, Dhillon said. Those three people gave notice weeks before the shooting took place, and the fourth person mentioned in the story put in for retirement in early December, over a month before the shooting took place.

Two of the other people that the MS Now story references have not resigned and are currently at their desks working, The Daily Wire has learned. While they have “apparently told the press they intend to resign,” Dhillon said, “our office has not received notice of any resignations.”

“The media’s never-ending attempts to drum up drama and strife within the DOJ are exhausting,” Dhillon said. “My team and I will not let it distract us from our mission of protecting the civil rights of ALL Americans. We thank those employees retiring for their years of service to the Department and our nation.”

The FBI is investigating the January 7 incident, the ICE agent’s actions, and the networks of activist groups funding anti-ICE protesting as well as Good’s possible connections to such networks in Minnesota, a law enforcement source confirmed to The Daily Wire.

As for a possible DOJ Civil Rights Division investigation, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says “there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation.” A DOJ official told The Daily Wire that ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility is conducting its own investigation.

“As with any officer-involved shooting, each law enforcement agency has an internal investigation protocol, including DHS,” the DOJ official shared. “As such, ICE OPR has its own investigation underway. This runs parallel to any FBI investigation.”

Video footage from that day shows Good hitting an ICE agent with her car, whereupon he exclaims as he fires at her, fatally shooting her in her car. President Donald Trump’s administration has vehemently argued that the act was one of domestic terrorism against the ICE agent, who was previously dragged by a car as he attempted to carry out his orders.

MS Now did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld asked why there were no friends or family members willing to step in and advise liberal women against putting themselves in harm’s way by obstructing the actions of armed federal officers.

Gutfeld raised the question during Monday’s broadcast of “The Five,” arguing that liberals could not publicly advise anyone not to engage Immigration and Customs Enforcement and keep their claim to “virtue” intact.

WATCH:

WATCH — @Gutfeldfox asks @JessicaTarlov how she would respond if her sister announced plans to impede ICE operations, & she was left in DISARRAY.

He told her the answer everyone knows is TRUE:

“You would say ‘YOU NEED AN INTERVENTION.'”

HE’S NOT WRONG.pic.twitter.com/C868gjHeET

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 13, 2026

“The argument over this shooting is irrelevant if you deny the premise for them being there,” Gutfeld began, referring to the deadly confrontation between anti-ICE activist Renee Good and an ICE agent several days earlier. “This is part of the strategic ignorance where the other side doesn’t understand things: Why is ICE here? Why is breaking the law wrong? Why do we need this kind of enforcement? What is wrong with an open border?”

Gutfeld went on to argue that the entire point of the feigned ignorance was to bog conservatives down in answering those questions, all the while knowing that the liberals asking them knew the answers.

“You don’t break into Disneyland, you pay,” he explained. “You don’t cut in line at the movies, you wait in line. You don’t interfere with the police, you know it’s wrong.”

“You are living a lie,” Gutfeld said, adding that when it came to the far-Left, their private behavior did not align with their public behavior.

“I want every liberal, because we have millions of liberals watching this show, to engage in a thought scenario,” Gutfeld continued. “You ask your sister this question: ‘So, what are your plans today, Deborah?’ She goes, ‘Well, I plan on filming myself harassing and impeding armed law enforcement.’ So, how would you respond to your sister?”

Gutfeld argued that most people, regardless of political affiliation, would advise against such actions.

“If you deny, to a family member or a best friend, that this is how you would react, you are lying to yourself to protect your public virtue,” Gutfeld declared. “Would you say, ‘You go, girl?’ Of course not! You would say, ‘You need an intervention. I need to stop you because I care about you.'”

“That is the problem, Jessica,” he said then, turning to liberal cohost Jessica Tarlov. “Nobody cares about [Renee] Good. You don’t care about her, the Left never cared about her, the activist group that trained her didn’t care about it – who should be sued for wrongful death, who put her in this situation. She had no friends, she had no relatives to offer her advice when she was doing this stuff, when she was putting her life in jeopardy.”

Gutfeld went on to say that Good was not alone in that — and that many other women had appeared in similar videos harassing ICE agents, although usually with less tragic ends.

“Where are their friends? Where are their parents? Where are the kids that would say, ‘Mommy, what are you doing? Why aren’t you home?'” he asked.