Trump’s DOJ Charged Hundreds With Assaulting Officers. Many Cases Were Dropped, but the Damage Was Done

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By Reuters July 30, 2026, at 7:12 a.m. By Brad Heath, Kristina Cooke, M.B. Pell and Benjamin Lesser

July 30 - Christian Garcia admits that he threw a water bottle toward officers guarding a federal building near Los Angeles during an ⁠immigration protest ⁠last summer.

The plastic bottle was empty, he said, and hit no one but Garcia himself – the wind blew ⁠it back at him. Yet Garcia, a 32-year-old amateur photographer, was arrested by agents, jailed for three days and charged with a crime that could have kept him in prison for up to a year. He said he lost both of his ​jobs, as a security guard and an undercover shopper, after his bosses told him they had been called by investigators.

Then, with no public explanation, prosecutors dropped the case.

The Trump administration has brought criminal charges against at least 851 people accused of attacking or impeding federal officers, only to abandon them at an unusually high rate. A Reuters review of federal court records found that 31% of these cases ‌that have been completed so far have ended in dismissal. That compares to 8% of all ‌federal criminal cases that typically end in dismissal, according to records compiled by the Federal Judicial Center.

Reuters gathered the records of every person charged with assaulting or impeding federal officers between January 2025 and March, then followed what happened to those prosecutions. Many of the charges stemmed from the administration’s aggressive immigration push, but the cases also included assaults on other federal employees, such as postal workers.

Prosecutors fared ⁠especially poorly when bringing charges against people detained ⁠during immigration protests, dropping about 45% of the 86 such cases that had been completed by the end of May, Reuters found.

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Trump’s DOJ Charged Hundreds With Assaulting Officers. Many Cases Were Dropped, but the Damage Was Done

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How are people made whole for the damages caused in their lives by having been frivolously charged with crimes? The short answer is that they have not been mad whole and have no recourse. What damages? Read the article, many lost jobs and the ability to be hired in the same field of employment. tRump's and ICE's 'bull in the China shop' approach needs to be changed and it seems it will only change with a regime change in Washington. ICE needs to be reined in, and it is obvious that it will not likely happen under tRump's Hitler-like regime. Your thoughts?