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Francisco Longoria’s case unfolded in San Bernardino, Southern California. He was stopped in his car with his teenage son in the passenger seat and another man in the back seat by border patrol agents. The situation is depicted in two separate cell phone videos and a video from a surveillance camera across the street. In these videos, one border patrol agent is seen smashing the car’s glass. Then Longoria drives away. Importantly, the surveillance video across the street clearly shows there were no federal agents or federal vehicles in front of or in any way in the path of Longoria’s vehicle when he drove away, yet that moment is when a border patrol agent discharged his firearm at him multiple times.
The Department of Justice charged Longoria with assault on an officer. However, prosecutors dropped the case within less than a month of filing it. This is not an isolated outcome; it is part of a broader pattern observed in several cases. The narrative notes that this dropping of charges is not unique to Longoria’s case, and that there are other instances where cases have been thrown out by judges.
From the reviewed material, only four of the cases examined actually have ongoing criminal prosecutions. This total is described as a much smaller number than might be expected given the DHS’s public claims accusing individuals of assaulting federal officers. The speaker underscores that assault on a federal officer is a serious and prosecutable charge, yet the current landscape shows relatively few active prosecutions amid numerous accusations.
In summary, Longoria’s episode involved border patrols, a glass-breaking incident, and Longoria’s subsequent drive-away during which a border patrol agent fired multiple shots. The DOJ dropped the assault-on-officer charge against Longoria in under a month, and among similar cases, only a minority remain under active prosecution, with four cases still ongoing. This pattern is highlighted as notable in the discussion of how these cases are proceeding relative to the public accusations by DHS.