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Wed Apr 22, 2026, 10:00 PM 14 hrs ago

'Immigration officer charged after shoving protester to ground in Colorado'

(MS NOW) "CBP Officer Nicholas Rice was charged with assault in the third degree and criminal mischief, District Attorney Sean Murray for Colorado’s 6th Judicial District, said in a news release. The charges are a misdemeanor and a petty offense, respectively."

"The incident took place in late October outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango, a small left-leaning town in southwestern Colorado, where hundreds of people gathered to protest the arrest of a Colombian father and his two children."

"Rice was recorded on video snatching a phone out of 57-year-old Franci Stagi’s hands and then grabbing her hair and shoving her down an embankment. Stagi told The Colorado Sun at the time that she had been recording the officer and asked him, 'You’re a good Christian, aren’t you?' which she said set him off."

"The Durango Herald reported that federal officers used physical force against protesters and deployed pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd."

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https://www.ms.now/news/immigration-officer-charged-colorado-protestor

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