'At your peril': Current, former prosecutors clap back at outrage over guilty verdicts of Spokane ICE protesters
A federal jury found the Spokane 3 guilty of conspiring to impede ICE operations after a June 2025 protest, prosecutors said.
- On Thursday, a federal jury convicted Jac Archer, Justice Forral, and Bajun Mavalwalla II of conspiracy to impede U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations during a June 2025 demonstration in Spokane.
- Demonstrators gathered at 411 W. Cataldo Ave. to block an ICE transport bus heading to a federal detention center in Tacoma; protesters slashed vehicle tires and linked arms around a Customs and Border Patrol van before police declared an unlawful assembly and arrested about 30 people.
- Defense attorney Carl Oreskovich called the prosecution an "extraordinarily aggressive approach," while former U.S. Attorney Jim McDevitt countered that "you don't pick and choose the laws you want to enforce" regarding protest boundaries.
- First Assistant U.S. Attorney Pete Serrano defended the verdict, stating the "sole motivation" for prosecution was accountability, though legal observers fear these convictions further erode First Amendment protections for dissenters.
- Critics contrast the pursuit of these protesters against the federal regime's handling of individuals involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, raising questions about whether federal power applies uniformly during politically polarized times.
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Yakima Herald-Republic
'At your peril': Current, former prosecutors clap back at outrage over guilty verdicts of Spokane ICE protesters
SPOKANE — A day after three Spokane protesters were convicted of conspiracy against federal agents, current and former U.S. attorneys voiced their two cents on the outrage about the verdict: that the law isn't optional.
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