A Los Angeles man who admitted punching a border patrol officer during an anti-immigration enforcement protest last summer in Paramount is set to be sentenced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Christian Damian Cerna-Camacho, 29, pleaded guilty in December in downtown Los Angeles to a single charge of assault on a federal officer. The charge carries a possible sentence of up to eight years behind bars.<\/p>\n
When agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security tried to detain Cerna-Camacho for the assault days after the June 11 protest, he attempted to flee in his vehicle.<\/p>\n
Agents used their car to chase Cerna-Camacho\u2019s vehicle, pinning it between two unmarked law enforcement vehicles on Whittier Boulevard in Boyle Heights.<\/p>\n
Officials said the defendant\u2019s car contained a woman passenger and two children in the back seat when the vehicle was pinned.<\/p>\n
DHS released a statement explaining that the operation was a \u201ctargeted arrest\u201d of a man described as a \u201cviolent rioter who punched a CBP officer,\u201d referring to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was no hit and run,\u201d the department posted on social media. \u201cThis was a targeted arrest of a violent rioter who punched a CBP officer. When Homeland Security Investigations tried to arrest (Cerna-Camacho) for the assault, he attempted to flee. He was ultimately arrested and taken into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n
DHS released video footage in June taken from a nearby business showing Cerna-Camacho\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles man who admitted punching a border patrol officer during an anti-immigration enforcement protest last summer…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":680892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,441,2961,224,5337,4531,15329,1809,286279,17024],"class_list":["post-680891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-federal","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-officer","tag-paramount","tag-protest","tag-punched","tag-sentencing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116290243102495105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680891","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=680891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}