State and local prosecutors in Minnesota charged an ICE officer Thursday with two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon.

good.

The criminal charges appear to be the first against a federal immigration officer for actions allegedly taken while on duty during the immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.

first of many i hope!

The officer is identified in the complaint as 35-year-old Gregory Donnell Morgan, Jr., a Maryland resident who was part of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division at the time of the incident and had been detailed to the Minneapolis area.

and the crime?

On the afternoon of Feb. 5, the Minnesota State Patrol received a 911 report that a driver in a Ford Expedition had pointed a gun at two people in another vehicle along a highway in the Twin Cities area.

i remember seeing a lot of photos of masked ice agents pointing guns willy-nilly at people in cars, good to finally see a little accountability.

The person driving says they briefly moved their car onto the road’s shoulder in an effort to block the SUV’s driver from bypassing traffic illegally and to “cut him off a little bit.” Both alleged victims say they did not know the other driver was a federal officer.

The complaint states that Morgan then pulled up beside them, rolled down his window and pointed a black handgun directly at both the driver and the passenger and yelled something they couldn’t discern.

so the guy got cut off in traffic and pulls a gun on the one who did it. perfectly healthy, competent individual fit to be a federal officer.

in other words, this isn’t related to alex pretti or renee good, but another smaller incident. however, it’s nice to see some accountability find its way to federal agents on the state level, and makes the situation look a lot more optimistic for good and pretti finding justice.