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DOJ opens probe after left-wing DA requires prosecutors to consider race in plea deals
The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the Minneapolis-area Hennepin County Attorney’s Office’s new directive for its prosecutors to consider race when negotiating plea deals with criminal defendants.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Acting Associate Attorney General Chad Mizelle and Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon informed Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty in a letter that the Justice Department is opening a probe into whether the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office «engaged in a pattern of practice of depriving persons of rights, privileges or immunities secured or protect by the Constitution or laws of the United States.»
The letter, dated May 2, cited Moriarty’s recently adopted «Negotiations Policy for Cases Involving Adult Defendants,» which instructs prosecutors to consider race when formulating plea offers, stating that «racial identity… should be part of the overall analysis,» and that prosecutors «should be identifying and addressing racial disparities at decision points, as appropriate.»
«In particular, the investigation will focus on whether HCAO engages in illegal consideration of race in its prosecutorial decision-making,» they said said in the letter, which Dhillon shared on X.
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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty discussed the decision to dismiss the case against Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan in the killing of Ricky Cobb II in a press conference on Monday, June 3, 2024. (Hennepin County Attorney’s Office )
Bondi, Mizelle and Dhillon said their investigation will include «a comprehensive review of all relevant HCAO policies and practices that may involve the illegal consideration of race in prosecutorial decision-making.»
Dhillon has also authorized a «full investigation to determine whether the HCAO is engaged in a pattern or practice of depriving persons of rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.»
«Please be assured that we have not reached any conclusions about the subject matter of the investigation,» their letter addressed to Moriarty said. «We will consider all relevant information, and we welcome your assistance in helping to identify what that might be. We would appreciate your cooperation in our investigation. In our years enforcing civil rights statutes involving state and local law enforcement agencies, we have worked with jurisdictions of all sizes across the nation to resolve investigations, usually without contested litigation.»
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announces the arrest of gang members involved in four homicides, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
LEFT-WING DA FORCING PROSECUTORS TO CONSIDER ‘RACIAL IDENTITY’ IN PLEA DEALS
The letter said the Civil Rights Division’s Special Litigation Sections will oversee the investigation and will be in contact with Moriarty «shortly to set up a mutually agreeable date and time to discuss the parameters of this investigation, including the scope of information that we will be seeking from you.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Moriarty’s office and the DOJ for comment on Sunday.
Moriarty was elected among a wave of progressive district attorneys who took office following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests and riots. She has been backed by groups tied to money from megadonor George Soros, one of the most prominent backers of progressive issues in the United States.
The former chief public defender for the county, Moriarty became the Hennepin County Attorney in January 2023 after promising to deliver on holding police accountable in the community where Floyd was killed.
Harmeet Dhillon during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Moriarty’s two immediate predecessors had been in office for a combined 31 years, and her promises of dramatic changes had the backing of the state Democratic Party and community leaders. Since then, however, Moriarty has faced fierce backlash, even among some former supporters, as critics questioned decisions to seek lighter sentences for violent crimes in some cases and to divert more people to programs rather than jail.
Police officers, local officials and some progressive activists condemned Moriarty after she charged a White state trooper with the killing of a Black man last summer, only to later reverse course and drop the charges. Leaders of the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association had waged a high-profile campaign urging Tim Walz, the state’s governor and former Democratic vice presidential nominee, to reassign the prosecution away from Moriarty.
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Last month, Republicans across the North Star State condemned Moriarty for failing to charge a Walz staffer who allegedly vandalized at least six Tesla vehicles. President Donald Trump’s administration has identified Tesla vandalism as «domestic terrorism» and led a nationwide effort alongside the Justice Department to hold vandals accountable.
Fox News Digital’s Deirdre Heavy, Andrew Mark Miller and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, the face of the Trump administration’s campaign to arrest and deport criminal illegal immigrants, will be leaving Minnesota, along with some border agents, amid violent, and sometimes deadly, clashes between federal authorities and anti-ICE agitators.
Bovino and an unspecified number of U.S. Border Patrol agents will be leaving the state as soon as Tuesday, multiple federal sources told Fox News.
«Chief Gregory Bovino has NOT been relieved of his duties,» DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin later wrote on X. «As @PressSec stated from the White House podium, @CMDROpAtLargeCA is a key part of the President’s team and a great American.»
The news came the same day that President Donald Trump announced that he would be deploying border czar Tom Homan to take point in Minnesota. White House Press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday defended Bovino, calling him a «wonderful man, and he’s a great professional.»
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People yell at U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and other agents while they stop at a gas station. Bovino will be leaving Minnesota amid contentious immigration enforcement operations, sources told Fox News. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
«He is going to very much continue to lead Customs and Border Patrol, throughout and across the country,» Leavitt said. «Mr. Homan will be the main point of contact on the ground in Minneapolis to follow up.»
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Before leading operations throughout the country, Bovino was chief of the Border Patrol’s El Centro Sector in Southern California, which is responsible for 70 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border and covers Imperial and Riverside counties. He will return to his previous post where he will resume his previous duties.
Bovino’s «commander of at large operations» position was created by DHS and took him outside of Border Patrol command.
Bovino has been criticized by opponents of Trump’s deportation campaign over tactics used by federal immigration authorities to apprehend criminal illegal aliens.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a harsh critic of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, praised news of Bovino’s impending departure from Minnesota.
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A Border Patrol agent chatted with a protester in Minnesota on Thursday, finding common ground over military service. (Brendan Gutenschwager via Storyful)
«Gestapo Greg is out. Keep the pressure up. It’s working,» he wrote on X.
In another post, he called for the firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
News of Bovino’s departure came after a deadly weekend in which 37-year-old nurse Alex J. Pretti was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Pretti, who was armed with a handgun, was filming federal officers on a Minneapolis street.
Authorities said Pretti was resisting disarmament when he was shot.
At the time, authorities were targeting Jose Huerta-Chuma, an illegal immigrant with a criminal history including domestic assault for intentional conflict with bodily harm, disorderly conduct and driving without a valid license.
Trump said Homan will report «directly to me» and will help lead the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
«I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me,» Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
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«Separately, a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive 20 Billion Dollar, Plus, Welfare Fraud that has taken place in Minnesota, and is at least partially responsible for the violent organized protests going on in the streets,» he continued.
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Represión en Irán: el régimen detiene a manifestantes heridos en los hospitales como parte de la represión
Miles de manifestantes heridos en las recientes protestas en Irán habrían sido retirados de hospitales y detenidos por fuerzas de seguridad, según denunció la relatora especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre Irán, Mai Sato. Esta práctica constituiría una violación grave del derecho a la atención médica, protegido por la legislación internacional.
La experta, que también es profesora en la Universidad Birkbeck de Londres, declaró que recibió múltiples informes sobre el retiro forzoso de pacientes en hospitales de diversas provincias. En declaraciones a Reuters, Sato explicó que familias acudieron a los hospitales al día siguiente de los incidentes y no encontraron a sus seres queridos. Además, señaló que las familias enfrentan demandas de entre USD 5.000 y USD 7.000 para recuperar los cuerpos de sus familiares fallecidos, una carga económica significativa ante las dificultades actuales en el país.
El grupo de derechos humanos HRANA, con sede en Estados Unidos, estima que la cifra de muertos vinculados a las protestas asciende a 5.937, incluyendo 214 miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad. Por su parte, las autoridades iraníes reconocen oficialmente 3.117 fallecidos. Tanto Sato como Reuters aclararon que no han podido verificar de forma independiente estos datos, aunque la relatora considera que las víctimas mortales superan ampliamente las cifras oficiales.
Miembros del personal sanitario en Irán, entrevistados bajo condición de anonimato por Reuters, confirmaron que las fuerzas de seguridad han irrumpido en hospitales, retirando a pacientes y buscando los registros de manifestantes heridos para proceder a su detención. Un médico de la ciudad de Rasht relató que, tras ser operados por heridas de bala, decenas de pacientes fueron sacados por la Guardia Revolucionaria sin que se sepa su paradero. Una enfermera y dos médicos en hospitales de Teherán aseguraron que agentes de la Guardia y la policía revisaron habitaciones en busca de manifestantes heridos.
Estas acciones han disuadido a la población de buscar atención médica, por temor a ser arrestados, lo que representa un riesgo para la vida y la salud de los heridos. Sato advirtió que esta conducta vulnera el principio de neutralidad médica, protegido por los Convenios de Ginebra, que garantizan la protección de doctores, hospitales y pacientes para asegurar una atención imparcial.
Según informes citados por Sato, las fuerzas de seguridad han disparado a manifestantes en el pecho y la cabeza en las 31 provincias del país, apuntando a órganos vitales y haciendo uso de la fuerza letal de manera indiscriminada. El derecho internacional solo permite este tipo de acciones como último recurso y de forma proporcionada. Sato afirmó que estos hechos podrían constituir “muertes ilegales y ejecuciones arbitrarias”, además de alertar sobre un aumento de lesiones oculares causadas por perdigones en las protestas recientes.
La relatora también denunció que las exigencias de pago para la entrega de cadáveres agravan el sufrimiento de las familias, al combinar el dolor con la extorsión. Señaló que el intento de las autoridades iraníes de calificar a los manifestantes de “terroristas” o “alborotadores” busca justificar la represión de lo que describió como un movimiento local y espontáneo.
Al menos 240 confesiones forzadas han sido transmitidas recientemente por la televisión estatal de Irán, según denunció un grupo de derechos humanos. Los videos presentan a los arrestados confesando crímenes que incluyen violencia contra miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad, colaboración con opositores o potencias extranjeras y la simple interacción con cuentas críticas en redes sociales.
Diversas organizaciones, entre ellas Amnistía Internacional, han calificado estas grabaciones de “videos de propaganda” y han denunciado que las confesiones serían obtenidas bajo tortura física y psicológica. Se ha reportado que los detenidos son obligados a firmar declaraciones que no pueden leer y a admitir delitos que no cometieron, incluidas acciones pacíficas de disenso.
El jefe del poder judicial iraní, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, ha encabezado personalmente algunas de estas interrogaciones televisadas. Según Roya Boroumand, directora del Centro Abdorrahman Boroumand para los Derechos Humanos en Irán con sede en Estados Unidos, estas confesiones cumplen varias funciones: fabricar legitimidad política, presentar a los manifestantes como agentes violentos de intereses extranjeros y desincentivar la disidencia. Boroumand afirmó que este tipo de prácticas se utilizan para humillar y desacreditar a los opositores, además de recordar a la sociedad el alto costo de desafiar al Estado.
Las protestas, originadas por motivos económicos, se transformaron en un movimiento masivo contra la república islámica, especialmente a partir del 8 de enero, cuando las autoridades impusieron un apagón de internet. Miles de personas murieron durante la represión de las manifestaciones, según datos de la organización Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), que también contabilizó más de 41.000 arrestos y 240 confesiones forzadas durante el operativo.
El Centro para los Derechos Humanos en Irán (CHRI) ha calificado la escala actual de confesiones forzadas como sin precedentes, subrayando que estas declaraciones suelen ser la única prueba utilizada para condenar, incluso en casos donde se impone la pena de muerte. Boroumand explicó que al exhibir a los disidentes confesando actos como “colusión con potencias extranjeras”, el Estado legitima la represión con el argumento de proteger la seguridad nacional y usa la confesión televisiva como prueba de culpabilidad para justificar castigos severos.
(Con información de Reuters y AFP)
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Iranian security forces gun down amateur boxer as father searches morgues for missing son: source
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An Iranian amateur boxer was shot and killed by Iranian security forces during ongoing anti-regime protests near Tehran, and his father spent a week searching before identifying his body in a black body bag.
Harrowing footage circulating online shows his distraught father desperately searching among piles of bodies covered with black body bags, crying out for his missing son.
Sepehr Ebrahimi, 19, was killed on Jan. 11 in the Andisheh area, approximately 19 miles west of Tehran’s city center, according to Iranian opposition sources.
«Sepehr was shot and killed in Tehran,» Ali Safavi, a senior official with the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told Fox News Digital.
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Sepehr Ebrahimi was a 19-year-old amateur boxer. His father spent a week searching for his body after he was killed. (Simay Azadi/National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI))
Video shared on social media, which was viewed by Fox News Digital, shows Ebrahimi’s father calling out his son’s name as he searches a warehouse filled with unidentified bodies following a violent crackdown on demonstrators.
«My dear Sepehr, where are you?» the father can be heard crying. At one point, he shouts, «Damn Khamenei. They have killed the children of so many people. You killed so many young people!»
According to Safavi, Ebrahimi was shot with live ammunition by Iran’s security forces during protests against the clerical regime.
His family spent an agonizing week searching through morgues, hospitals and detention facilities before finally identifying his body among piles of corpses, also shown in the viral footage.
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Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)
The killing comes amid ongoing demonstrations across Iran, as anger continues to simmer over political repression, economic hardship and human rights abuses.
Ebrahimi’s death has also renewed attention on the case of another Iranian boxer, Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, who is on death row.
Vafaei Sani, now 30, is a champion boxer who was arrested in 2020 for participating in nationwide pro-democracy protests.
Iranian authorities accused him of supporting the opposition group the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK).
He has spent five years in prison, during which he has reportedly been tortured and held in prolonged solitary confinement, according to rights organizations.
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In 2023, more than 100 human rights experts and international organizations sent a letter to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, urging urgent intervention to stop Vafaei Sani’s execution.
His death sentence echoes the case of Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari, who was executed in September 2020.
Meanwhile, the death of Ebrahimi and others come as Iran’s protest-related death toll continues to rise.
According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), at least 6,126 people have been killed since the start of the latest wave of protests.
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HRANA also reported that 214 government-affiliated forces and 49 civilians have also been killed, while more than 17,000 deaths remain under investigation.
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