"It was a shock to me to have agents lying to me. They were telling me that they had been pushed or shoved and I would accept it, and I would assign the case. And then defense lawyers or somebody would show me a video that showed it was not true."
— Thomas Calhoun-Lopez, former prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office, speaking to CNN about federal agents in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge.
Context: Calhoun-Lopez was one of several U.S. attorneys working in the Minnesota office who quit following the killing of Renee Good on Jan. 7.
CNN reported that former Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino had been pushing prosecutors to charge protestors with assaulting federal agents.
The former U.S. Army officer who deployed to Iraq twice told CNN that the surge "had all the appearance and the mentality of a military occupation, and the ethos was they would subdue the state."
Of note: Thirty-six people in Minnesota were charged with assaulting agents, though a third of those cases were dismissed.
