Summary
Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday as head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Attorney General Todd Blanche said. During her 18-month tenure, the division shifted its priorities, saw major staff departures, and ended or withdrew from several investigations and agreements related to discrimination and police conduct.
Key Facts
- Blanche said he accepted Dhillon’s resignation and thanked her for her service.
- More than 75% of the Civil Rights Division’s staff departed last year.
- Under Dhillon, the division focused on issues including gun owners’ rights and challenges to diversity policies at universities.
- The Justice Department closed many cases involving discrimination against Black Americans and dismissed more than 50 longstanding school desegregation agreements.
- Dhillon withdrew from pending agreements with the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments and rescinded findings of misconduct involving six other departments.
- The division did not initially open a criminal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by immigration agents; it later joined the investigation into Alex Pretti’s death.
- No charges have been filed in the Pretti case, which state officials are also investigating.
- Dhillon often used social media to discuss division work and said she sometimes drew ideas for investigations from posts she saw online.
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