A man tackled by San Francisco police officers while protesting against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids has had charges against him dismissed, according to public defenders, who said he was “unfairly charged” with resisting arrest.
Luis Leal, 29, had been peacefully protesting ICE raids from outside the San Francisco immigration courthouse on June 8 when officers shoved him with a baton and told him to get out of their way, the city’s public defender’s office said in an Oct. 29 news release.
Leal put his hands up in defense, according to public defenders representing him. He was accused of trying to remove an officer’s baton and resisting arrest…