All charges against Creative Loafing Tampa Bay photojournalist Dave Decker were dropped Tuesday, following his arrest last month while covering an anti-ICE protest.
Decker was among more than 30 people arrested outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami on Nov. 22. He was on assignment for three outlets—News2Share, Zuma Newswire, and CL— covering a Sunshine Movement protest, which saw many of its members arrested after blocking the entrance to the facility on the southeastern edge of the Florida Everglades.
The 52-year-old photographer was charged with trespassing on property after warning, resisting an officer without violence to his person, unlawful assembly and obstructing a highway, despite wearing visible press credentials and telling officers he was a member of the media…