Mikki Hatfield doesn’t know what’s next, and they are upset.
Hatfield pleaded not guilty in July to federal felony accusations that they’d conspired to impede or assault law enforcement officers during a protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Spokane. But on December 3, they flipped that plea to guilty, agreeing to a deal federal prosecutors brokered with them and at least three other protesters.
The plea deal turns a potential felony sentence that could mean six years in federal prison and $250,000 in fines into three years of probation and a few thousand dollars in restitution costs. But Hatfield is alarmed by the political implications of prosecuting protesters…