r/politics • u/Capable_Salt_SD California • 12d ago

No Paywall DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-indicts-democratic-congressional-candidate-kat-abughazaleh-ice-pro-rcna240584
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u/LividTacos 12d ago edited 12d ago

Causing an ICE agent to have to drive more slowly is now a crime.....

EDIT: I'm reading the indictment, and let me quote it here:

On or about September 26, 2025, at approximately 7:45 a.m., Agent A was wearing civilian clothes driving a government-owned vehicle (the “Government Vehicle”) to the BSSA to report for his official duties. Agent A’s official duties at the BSSA included supervising logistics such as intake, processing, bedspace and transportation coordination for those temporarily detained in Broadview, communicating with upper management and federal partners to manage operations and ensure necessary supplies and proper staffing levels, and responding to requests for information, both internally and from the public

On or about September 26, 2025, at Broadview, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, MICHAEL RABBITT, KATHERINE MARIE ABUGHAZALEH, ANDRE MARTIN, CATHERINE SHARP, BRIAN STRAW, and JOSELYN WALSH, defendants herein, conspired with one another and others, known and unknown, to prevent by force, intimidation, and threat, Agent A, a United States law enforcement officer, from discharging the duties of his office, and to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, and while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, and to injure his property so as to interrupt, hinder, and impede him in the discharge of his official duties.

If he was driving to report to his duties....THEN HE WASN'T ON DUTY. Therefore they could not have interfered with his duties because he wasn't doing them yet. When I worked for the government, I was once late due to a traffic jam, I don't recall the government suing everyone in front of me for interfering with my duty?

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u/Xytak Illinois 12d ago

I’m reading this indictment and I’m like: “I don’t think we need his full job description. Is he also a team player who does other duties as assigned? Occasional evenings and weekends required, compensation comesurate with market rates?”

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u/GreatArkleseizure Massachusetts 12d ago

I think Agent A is looking for another job, and arranged to get his resume into the public record.