{"id":132133,"date":"2025-08-27T15:36:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/27\/prosecution-fails-third-attempt-at-fbi-assault-case\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:36:26","slug":"prosecution-fails-third-attempt-at-fbi-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/27\/prosecution-fails-third-attempt-at-fbi-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecution Fails Third Attempt At FBI \u2018Assault\u2019 Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s with all of these soft ass assault charges? Before headlines were focused on an errant Subway sandwich hitting an officer\u2019s uniform<\/a>, 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 \u2014 she was recording the police and for whatever reason an officer\u2019s hand brushed a cement wall as she was arrested for doing so. The charges were such bullshit that prosecutors weren\u2019t able to find a grand jury to charge her with the \u201ccrime.\u201d And they tried to do so three<\/em> times.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s administration seeks to aggressively charge street crime in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oof. Between these grand juries and the one that decided against <\/a>paying the sandwich throwing any mind, Trump\u2019s \u201ctough on crime\u201d D.C. crackdown might not be as easy to carry out as imagined. Makes you wonder how flimsy the evidence must have been. Or maybe three separate grand juries deciding not to play ball is an indication of people\u2019s discontent about immigration operations. Don\u2019t worry \u2014 I\u2019m sure there will be some other person filming the police or burning an American flag<\/a> that prosecutors can divert their important resources toward.<\/p>\n

US Prosecutors Fail Three Times To Secure Indictment In FBI Assault Case<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Prosecution Fails Third Attempt At FBI \u2018Assault\u2019 Case<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s with all of these soft ass assault charges? Before headlines were focused on an errant Subway sandwich hitting an officer\u2019s uniform<\/a>, 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 \u2014 she was recording the police and for whatever reason an officer\u2019s hand brushed a cement wall as she was arrested for doing so. The charges were such bullshit that prosecutors weren\u2019t able to find a grand jury to charge her with the \u201ccrime.\u201d And they tried to do so three<\/em> times.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s administration seeks to aggressively charge street crime in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oof. Between these grand juries and the one that decided against <\/a>paying the sandwich throwing any mind, Trump\u2019s \u201ctough on crime\u201d D.C. crackdown might not be as easy to carry out as imagined. Makes you wonder how flimsy the evidence must have been. Or maybe three separate grand juries deciding not to play ball is an indication of people\u2019s discontent about immigration operations. Don\u2019t worry \u2014 I\u2019m sure there will be some other person filming the police or burning an American flag<\/a> that prosecutors can divert their important resources toward.<\/p>\n

US Prosecutors Fail Three Times To Secure Indictment In FBI Assault Case<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What\u2019s with all of these soft ass assault charges? Before headlines were focused on an errant Subway sandwich hitting an officer\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Chris-Williams-2025-Y2PQ8G.jpg?fit=512%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}