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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Steve Karnowski

Justice Department plans to investigate prosecutor's office in Minnesota's most populous county

Justice Department Minnesota - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation of the prosecutor’s office in Minnesota’s most populous county after its leader directed her staff to consider racial disparities as one factor when negotiating plea deals.

Harmeet Dhillon, a Republican lawyer who's the new director of the agency's Civil Rights Division, announced the investigation in a social media post Saturday night.

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