"215 days before Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good dead after Good's wife, Becca, engaged in First Amendment protected taunting of Ross, HSI Special Agent Ryan Ribner rushed through a gate at at a Los Angeles garment factory and - along with ICE Officer Carey Crook - assaulted SEIU CA President David Huerta, targeting Huerta rather than several other people who were more directly blocking a van, the purported crime in question."
"Huerta argued in a motion to dismiss on First Amendment grounds submitted last week, days before Good's killing, that Ribner and Crook did not arrest Huerta for obstructing a Federal officer, which is what got charged after DOJ abandoned a claim that Huerta had conspired to impede officers, much less the assault that they contemplated charging initially, but because Huerta had engaged in that First Amendment protected taunting."
"It may well be that Ribner lied when he claimed he didn't learn Huerta was a powerful union leader until after he assaulted him. Months later, the undercover officer working the crowd, Jeremy Crossen, admitted people in the crowd referred to Huerta as a union "member," though that didn't appear in either the texts that got shared with Huerta in discovery - which described the institutional affiliation of others - or a countersurveillance report he wrote weeks after the assault,"
Federal agents Ryan Ribner and ICE Officer Carey Crook rushed through a gate at a Los Angeles garment factory and assaulted SEIU California President David Huerta, despite several other people more directly blocking a van. Huerta filed a motion to dismiss on First Amendment grounds, arguing that prosecutors charged him with obstruction after abandoning a conspiracy theory, and that the assault was motivated by protected taunting. Discovery materials raise questions about Ribner's account of not knowing Huerta's union role, and an undercover officer later admitted crowd members identified Huerta as a union "member." Video evidence shows agents predicting jail sentences based largely on taunting about masks.
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