A NYT story detailing the collapse of the Minnesota US Attorney’s office describes that Kash Patel nixed an effort to investigate the blood spatters in Renee Good’s car because doing so would produce evidence contradicting Trump’s claim that Good had run over Jonathan Ross.

The prosecutor, Joseph H. Thompson, wrote in an email to colleagues that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a state agency that specializes in investigating police shootings, would team up with the F.B.I. to determine whether the shooting had been justified and lawful or had violated Ms. Good’s civil rights.

But later that week, as F.B.I. agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good’s S.U.V., they received orders to stop, according to several people with knowledge of the events who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The orders, they said, came from senior officials, including Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, several of whom worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation — by using a warrant obtained on that basis — would contradict President Trump’s claim that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who fired at her as she drove her vehicle.

As I said at the time, this is bigger than Kash Patel’s sycophancy. There’s good reason to believe that Greg Bovino took his orders on use of force from Stephen Miller, and Bovino has been in the neighborhood of most of the most problematic uses of force from DHS (he was either on scene at the Good killing, or arrived almost immediately thereafter). And if Miller told Bovino to target protesters, than covering up the shooting of Good would be tantamount to covering up White House complicity in it.

Refusing to test the blood spatters — which may never have happened at this point — amounts to covering up a potential murder, one that may implicate orders the White House issued.

And even as Kash was suppressing any investigation into Good’s killing, Bovino was demanding prosecutions of protesters — precisely the kind of prosecutions that have collapsed in Los Angeles, DC, and Chicago — to “put down” the protests.

At one point, Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol leader who was the face of the administration’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis, called federal prosecutors, pressing them to charge demonstrators with crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled Mr. Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”

And sure enough, after Pam Bondi flew to Minnesota personally, eventually DOJ did charge those protesters, the sixteen people Bondi displayed like trophies.

But then, once Bondi left town, her trophies started to fade. Of the 16 people listed in the press release, two still don’t show up in PACER. And of the remaining 14, 11 have been downgraded to misdemeanors (the exceptions are Paul Johnson, Abdikadir Noor, and William Vermie; though there are already signs of paperwork problems in these dockets, and misdemeanor informations could still be filed).

Crazier still, prosecutions these people Pam Bondi portrayed as super dangerous criminals have all been turned over to brand new Lawyers, at least two of whom (John Arboleda and Michael Hakes-Rodriguez) are JAG Officers.

There’s no reason to believe that these prosecutions won’t collapse just like they did everywhere else Stephen Miller’s goons invaded.

Meanwhile, DOJ rolled out their new trophy the other day — a guy fully tattooed as an opponent to fascism. And while the complaint obtained in Detroit includes multiple statements that might be deemed a true threat to ICE or CBP goons and the complaint claims he “conspired to assault law enforcement officers,” it charges no such thing! They’ve only charged him for doxing an ICE supporter — basically the kind of thing that Libs of Tik Tok does before breakfast most days.

1. Gillian Etherington
26-mj-56
Charged for January 7 conflict with CBP in affidavit attested (by FaceTime) on January 23 by HSI SA Richard Berger. Downgraded to misdemeanor. John Arboleda filed notice of appearance.

2. Paul Johnson
26-mj-81
Charged for January 22 conflict with CBP in affidavit attested on January 26 by HSI SA Richard Berger. Michael Hakes-Rodriguez filed notice of appearance.

3. Matrim Charlebois
26-mj-59
Charged for January 13 incident at Whipple in affidavit attested on January 23 by HSI SA Richard Berger. Downgraded to misdemeanor. John Arboleda filed notice of appearance.

4. Ilan Wilson-Soler
[no court filings unsealed]

5. Abdikadir Noor
26-mj-62
Charged for January 12 incident in St. Cloud in affidavit attested on January 23 by HSI Richard Berger; Abdikadir’s name initially misspelled. Michael Hakes-Rodriguez filed notice of appearance.

6. Margaret Sager
[no court filings unsealed]

7. Kirubele Adbebe
26-mj-77
Charged for January 13 incident at Whipple in affidavit attested via FaceTime on January 26 by Richard Berger. Downgraded to misdemeanor. John Arboleda filed notice of appearance.

8. Nasra Ahmed
26-mj-24
Charged for January 14 incident with ICE ERO in affidavit attested via FaceTime on January 20 by HSI SA Bronson Day. Downgraded to misdemeanor. John Arboleda filed notice of appearance.

9. Helicity Borowska
26-mj-61
Charged for January 16 incident with CBP in affidavit attested via FaceTime on January 23 by Richard Berger. Downgraded to misdemeanor. John Arboleda filed notice of appearance.

10. Joshua Doyle
26-mj-80
Charged for January 21 incident with HSI at DuPont and Colfax in affidavit attested via FaceTime on January 26 by Richard Berger. Downgraded to misdemeanor. John Arboleda filed notice of appearance.

11. Nitzana Flores
26-mj-57
Charged for January 7 incident with CBP by Roosevelt School in affidavit attested via FaceTime on January 23 by Richard Berger. Downgraded to misdemeanor. Michael Hakes-Rodriguez filed notice of appearance.

12. Christina Rank
26-mj-56
Charged for January 12 incident with ICE in Inver Grove Heights in affidavit attested via FaceTime on January 23 by Richard Berger. Downgraded to misdemeanor. Michael Hakes-Rodriguez filed notice of appearance.

13. Madeline Tschida
26-mj-54
Charged for January 16 incident with ICE ERO in Monticello in affidavit attested via FaceTime on January 23 by Richard Berger. Downgraded to misdemeanor. Zain Abid filed notice of appearance.

14. Alice Valentine
26-mj-28
Charged for January 12 incident in St. Cloud with named Executive Associate Directors of ICE ERO. Affidavit attested by Bronson Day to Douglas Micko via Facetime on January 20. Downgraded to misdemeanor. Zain Abid filed notice of appearance.

15. William Vermie
26-mj-71
Charged for January 13 incident on Park Ave in affidavit attested via FaceTime and email on January 23 by Richard Berger. Zain Abid filed notice of appearance.

16. Quentin Williams
26-mj-70
Charged for January 7 CBP invasion of Roosevelt High School in affidavit attested via FaceTime on January 23 by Richard Berger. Downgraded to misdemeanor. Zain Abid filed notice of appearance.