Federal prosecutors sought indictments after an alleged assault on an FBI agent during an immigration operation in Washington, D.C., but three separate grand juries declined to return indictments. Prosecutors alleged assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and subsequently downgraded the offense to a misdemeanor. The repeated grand jury refusals represent an unusual prosecutorial setback amid an administration push to aggressively charge street crime in the capital. Media attention included other contested cases such as a Subway sandwich incident. Observers suggested the refusals could reflect weak evidence or public discomfort with immigration enforcement tactics and charging decisions.
Federal prosecutors failed three times to persuade a grand jury to indict a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent during an immigration operation in Washington, D.C., last month, a highly unusual failure as President Donald Trump's administration seeks to aggressively charge street crime in the nation's capital. Three different federal grand juries declined to indict Sydney Reid for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, prosecutors disclosed in a court filing late on Monday. Prosecutors then downgraded the offense to a misdemeanor.
What's with all of these soft ass assault charges? Before headlines were focused on an errant Subway sandwich hitting an officer's uniform, a woman was arrested and charged with assault for actions that followed an attempt to move men accused of gang activity. Sounds fancy, right? A lot of fluff to pad what actually happened - she was recording the police and for whatever reason an officer's hand brushed a cement wall as she was arrested for doing so. The charges were such bullshit that prosecutors weren't able to find a grand jury to charge her with the "crime." And they tried to do so three times.
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