{"id":106709,"date":"2025-07-31T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106709\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:07:09","slug":"charges-dropped-against-east-los-angeles-activist-who-distributed-face-shields-at-ice-protest-whittier-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106709\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped against East Los Angeles activist who distributed face shields at ICE protest \u2013 Whittier Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 A federal judge Wednesday dismissed the case against an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2025\/06\/13\/east-la-man-charged-for-allegedly-distributing-face-masks-at-immigration-protest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Los Angeles immigration activist<\/a> who was accused of handing out protective face shields to protesters last month during an anti-ICE demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Orellana, 29, a member of the Boyle Heights-based community organization Centro CSO, was indicted in June by a federal grand jury on felony charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting civil disorder, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>However, at the request of the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, U.S. District Judge Serena Murillo on Wednesday issued a judgment of discharge in the case, dismissing the charges against Orellana without prejudice \u2014 meaning it can be refiled \u2014 and ordering his bond exonerated.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors filed a motion to toss the charges on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>No reason was given for the decision to dismiss the case, and a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office declined comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtecting our community is not a crime,\u201d Orellana said in a statement. \u201cThanks to all those across the country who mobilized to demand that the charges (be dropped). We won because our cause is just.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, Orellana and at least two others drove around downtown L.A. in a pickup truck distributing Uvex Bionic face shields and other items to a crowd engaged in a protest near the federal building on Los Angeles Street on June 9. The face shields are designed to protect from chemical splashes and flying debris.<\/p>\n<p>At his initial court appearance, Orellana \u2014 a former U.S. Marine \u2014 was ordered by a magistrate judge to not come within 100 yards of federal agents or buildings \u2014 except for court appearances and meetings with his legal counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Centro CSO contends his arrest was \u201cpolitical repression\u201d due to Orellana\u2019s activism.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: July 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 A federal judge Wednesday dismissed the case against an East Los Angeles immigration activist who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,5295,409,2961,224,6080,5337,50,1809],"class_list":{"0":"post-106709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-protest"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114946116376649389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}