The government said it could not prove that a man accused of threatening federal agents had committed a crime, adding to the scores of cases in the administration’s deportation efforts that have unraveled.
On Jan. 14, after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a Venezuelan migrant following a high-speed chase in Minneapolis, protesters broke into a couple of vehicles that belonged to F.B.I. agents.
A husband stabbed his wife and daughter in Hopkins, Minn., before shooting himself, officials said. The authorities also were investigating the killing of another relative in a nearby suburb.
Body-camera video and other court evidence capture federal agents using slurs and targeting Latinos while bypassing white bystanders during immigration sweeps in Chicago and Los Angeles
Lawyers for the former CNN anchor asked a judge to throw out the case, saying prosecutors had “acted on the president’s animus by filing unprecedented charges against a journalist for doing his job.”
Don Lemon, center, outside court in St. Paul, Minn., in February. “The record could not be more clear that Mr. Lemon has been a persistent target of President Trump’s ire before the events in Minnesota,” his lawyers wrote.
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