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Federal prosecutors dropped assault charges against a St. Paul man after ICE agents shot at him in December. The dismissal suggests recognition the charges were retaliatory.
Federal prosecutors dropped assault charges against a St. Paul man after ICE agents shot at him in December. The dismissal came after the government reviewed the facts and apparently concluded the charges—filed against someone who was himself shot—were indefensible. The man was never convicted of assaulting anyone; the charges were dropped entirely.
The pattern here is clear: the man was charged to justify the shooting after the fact. Once prosecutors reviewed the evidence, they couldn't sustain the charges because there wasn't a credible case. This is how retaliatory prosecution works—authorities use the charge as cover for a bad encounter, and quietly drop it if they realize it won't stick. The fact that it took this long to happen, and that the charges were filed in the first place, shows how ICE operates with the assumption it can charge first and worry about evidence later.
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