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Attorney General Pam Bondi posted the names and photos of the protesters to social media before the cases were unsealed, drawing a sharp rebuke from a federal judge.
The 16 are charged by complaint with obstructing or impeding federal officers, but defense attorney Kevin Rich says a grand jury must still approve the charges.
One defendant, a Somali-American U.S.
citizen, alleges agents injured her and called her a racial slur while arresting her and questioning her citizenship.
For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.
Attorney General Pam Bondi posted the names and photos of the protesters to social media before the cases were unsealed, drawing a sharp rebuke from a federal judge.
The 16 are charged by complaint with obstructing or impeding federal officers, but defense attorney Kevin Rich says a grand jury must still approve the charges.
It's not that difficult to make a case past the grand jury, but the DOJ has a history of bringing bogus prosecutions, as we have seen in recent months, and the grand jury is a good bulwark.
One defendant, a Somali-American U.S.
citizen, alleges agents injured her and called her a racial slur while arresting her and questioning her citizenship.
For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.
District Judge Patrick Schiltz directed Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear in court in Minneapolis personally on Friday after ICE didn't respond to orders to set a bond hearing for Juan Hugo Tobay Robles.
Ice arrested the 43-year-old on January 6th, but his lawyer says the agency never gave a reason.
On Monday, Judge Schultz wrote, quote, the court's patience is at an end, but he gave Ice an off-ramp and said he'd cancel the hearing if it freed Robles.
Immigration attorney Graham Ojala-Barber says Ice released his client from a detention facility in Texas less than a day after the judge issued the order.
For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.