US veteran considers civil lawsuit after he was arrested and injured at anti-ICE protest
Source: The Guardian
A 70-year-old air force veteran who had been charged with felony assault on a federal officer as he protested an ICE raid has told the Guardian he is now considering a civil lawsuit after all charges against him were dropped.
The US Department of Justice moved to dismiss all charges against Dana Briggs, who had been charged despite a video of the incident, which showed masked Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents advancing on the elderly veteran and knocking him over.
In court papers, the justice department had earlier alleged Briggs committed assault when he “made physical contact with an agent’s arm while the agent attempted to extend the safety perimeter” around an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, where Briggs was protesting ramped-up immigration raids in the community.
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He also relayed his own experience of the incident for the first time, saying that prior to being knocked over, he was asking the federal agents protecting the Chicago-area ICE facility: “How do you go home at night and explain to your community and family what you are doing to other people who look like you?”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/veteran-arrested-ice-lawsuit-dana-briggs
tRump's private gestapo is going to cost taxpayers a shit ton of money from lawsuits.
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