Two protesters were arrested in the immediate aftermath, including a 33-year-old man charged with assaulting a Minneapolis police officer. Minneapolis police weren’t involved in the planning or execution of the federal search warrant but assisted with crowd control and de-escalation after about an hour. Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies also helped with crowd control, the indictment said, and a detective was initially on scene related to the labor trafficking investigation.
Body camera footage from law enforcement at the scene led to Lopez’s arrest, the indictment said. A still image from the footage purports to show Lopez throwing a softball at the back of a sheriff’s deputy and attempts to shove and kick FBI agents.
A grand jury further charged Lopez with obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and a third count of assaulting officers. She is accused of punching an FBI officer’s head during her arrest.
“Assaulting a law enforcement officer engaged in their lawful duties, or damaging government property during a protest, is not protected under the First Amendment — it is a criminal offense,” said special agent in charge Alvin Winston Sr. of the FBI in Minneapolis. “The FBI, along with our law enforcement partners, will use every available resource to investigate these acts, identify those responsible, and ensure they are held accountable under the law.”
Lopez appeared Monday in U.S. District Court and will remain jailed pending a detention hearing Thursday. She had yet to secure a defense attorney as of late Tuesday afternoon.
Gold-plated handguns seized from a Northfield resident that federal authorities say bear insignia from similar firearms used by and seized by narcotics traffickers, according to a federal indictment. (U.S. District Court)
Portraits from the film “Scarface” seized from a Burnsville business during a June 3 raid, one of eight by federal law enforcement. “Such ‘homage’ images are regularly observed by law enforcement as adornments to the walls of homes and businesses of those involved in the drug and related money laundering trades,” according to a federal indictment. (U.S. District Court)
Body camera footage of Isabel Lopez after protests broke out during a federal raid at Los Cuatros Milpas restaurant in Minneapolis, according to a federal indictment. (U.S. District Court)
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