U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged a man with assaulting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and destroying government property, marking at least the second criminal case to stem from clashes between protesters and federal agents in San Francisco this summer.
Caleb Ranney faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine for each of the two charges, which are misdemeanors, if convicted.
Prosecutors allege that on Aug. 8, Ranney “forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated and interfered” with a federal agent who was performing his official duties near the ICE field office at 630 Sansome St., but provided no further details of the allegations in court records…