Minnesota charges ICE agent with felony
A federal immigration agent's conduct during the Minnesota crackdown has led to state felony charges. Prosecutors in Minneapolis on Thursday charged Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., 35, with assault, alleging he pointed a gun at two people in a car after trying to pass them on the shoulder of a highway in an unmarked vehicle, the New York Times reports. Morgan later told state investigators he feared for his safety after being cut off, according to the criminal complaint.
・At a news conference Thursday, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Morgan's conduct "was extremely dangerous," MPR News reports. "Driving while pointing a weapon out of your moving vehicle at the victims who were in another moving vehicle could have led to yet another disastrous incident in a community that has already suffered too many."
・Moriarty said Morgan has been charged with two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, one for each person in the vehicle, and there is a nationwide warrant out for his arrest, reports NBC News.
・Moriarty said the people in the vehicle briefly pulled in front of Morgan's vehicle as it tried to pass on the shoulder, but it had rejoined the normal flow of traffic when he pointed the gun at them "while continuing to drive illegally on the shoulder." The people in the other vehicle were on their way to go shopping and were not part of activists' efforts to track ICE agents, Moriarty said.
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