Have any Minneapolis police officers resigned in last week
Executive summary
No reputable reporting in the assembled sources confirms that Minneapolis Police Department officers resigned "in the last week"; the verifiable wave of departures cited across outlets refers to federal prosecutors and Justice Department civil‑rights officials tied to the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, not a mass exodus from the city police force [1] [2] [3]. A viral social‑media claim that "24 officers just resigned" appears uncorroborated by the news reporting assembled here [4].
1. What the verified reporting actually documents: federal, not municipal, resignations
Multiple mainstream outlets — The Guardian, PBS, CBC and MS NOW — document resignations tied to the Justice Department and U.S. attorney’s offices in Minnesota and Washington, D.C., driven by protest over the department’s handling of the ICE agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and related internal disputes; those accounts describe departures of federal prosecutors and senior Civil Rights Division leaders, not Minneapolis Police Department officers [1] [2] [3] [5].
2. The viral claim and the evidentiary gap
A widely circulated social post on X (formerly Twitter) asserted that "24 officers just resigned from the Minneapolis Police Department" and that 18 joined ICE, but the archived post itself is not corroborated by the news outlets reporting on the resignations — which focused on federal prosecutors and DOJ civil‑rights officials — and no independent confirmation of a 24‑officer resignation from Minneapolis appears in the provided reporting [4] [1] [2].
3. Context that helps explain the confusion
Tensions following the January shooting have produced intense media scrutiny, official statements from city leaders (including heightened overtime and public‑safety costs reported by the City of Minneapolis), and strong reactions among law enforcement communities; that context has produced overlapping stories about federal resignations, departmental strain, and historical examples of Minneapolis officers resigning during the George Floyd protests in 2020 — a distinct episode that is sometimes conflated into contemporary claims [6] [7] [8].
4. Competing narratives from official spokespeople and partisan outlets
The Justice Department has offered alternative explanations for some departures — including that some prosecutors planned their departures or requested early retirement — creating a dispute over motive and timing that mainstream outlets report [9] [5]. At the same time, outlets critical of the department emphasize protest resignations tied directly to the decision not to open a civil‑rights probe into the ICE shooting [1] [2]. This split highlights how different sources frame the same personnel moves with divergent agendas: accountability advocates present principled walkouts, while department spokespeople describe routine separations or reassignments [1] [9].
5. What can and cannot be concluded from the sourced material
Based on the reporting assembled here, the direct answer is: there is no confirmed reporting that Minneapolis Police Department officers resigned en masse in the last week; the departures documented are federal prosecutors and Civil Rights Division leaders tied to DOJ decisions about the ICE shooting [1] [2] [3]. It is possible that isolated resignations or transfers at the Minneapolis Police Department occurred but are not captured in these sources; the files provided do not contain a verified municipal resignation tally for the last week, and therefore cannot confirm the viral social‑media claim [4] [6]. Readers should treat the X post as unverified until local official rosters, the Minneapolis Police Department, or reputable local outlets publish corroboration.