Ryan Lucas

Now, Blanch replied that the department complied with the law.

He also denied that the DOJ protected Trump in any way.

He said there's a hunger for information out there that won't be satisfied by the release of these files.

Now, some of that hunger, it has to be said, has been fueled by Trump and other top administration officials, including at the Justice Department.

Here's NPR's Ryan Lucas.

It's normal after a shooting that involves a law enforcement officer for the FBI and the Justice Department to conduct a civil rights investigation.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch has said publicly he sees no need to do so in Good's killing.

And the FBI is not conducting a civil rights investigation into Pretty's killing either.

That's according to three sources who spoke with me on condition of anonymity.

due to the sensitivity of this issue.

The three new resignations at the U.S.

Attorney's Office in Minnesota include a division chief.

The departures add to the already significant exodus of veteran attorneys from the office there in recent weeks.

They come as the Trump administration continues its ramped-up immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, where federal agents have shot and killed two U.S.

citizens this month, Renee Macklin Good and Alex Preddy.

At least six federal prosecutors in the U.S.

Attorney's Office there recently quit after the Justice Department pressured them to investigate Good's widow.

Meanwhile, an FBI agent who tried to investigate Good's killing...

resigned last week after being pressured to drop the matter.

The three new resignations at the U.S.