DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump's immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agent described her wounds as “boo-boos.”
Nevertheless, the Department of Justice aggressively pursued the alleged perpetrator. They jailed Sidney Lori Reid on a charge of felony assault, accusing her of injuring the agent during a July protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Washington, D.C.
When grand jurors thrice declined to indict the 44-year-old on the felony, prosecutors tried her on a misdemeanor.
Body camera footage played at trial revealed that Reid had not intentionally struck the agent. Instead, the agent had scratched her hand on a wall while assisting another agent who had shoved Reid and told her to “shut the f—- up” and “mind her own business.”
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