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On Thursday, Minnesota state prosecutors announced a historic set of charges against a federal immigration agent. Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. has been charged with two felony counts of second-degree assault for pointing his gun at two Minnesota residents as they sat in their car back in February, right in the midst of the Trump administration’s brutal immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, dubbed Operation Metro Surge. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said she believes that this might be the first charge of its kind nationwide.

Morgan is a 35-year-old Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent from Maryland, and on the evening of Feb. 5 he was ending his shift, driving back to a Minnesota federal building that had become ICE’s de facto headquarters during Operation Metro Surge. As he drove in an unmarked SUV, Morgan encountered rush-hour traffic, which he decided to bypass by unlawfully driving on the highway’s shoulder. He eventually encountered a white Cadillac slowly attempting to merge into a single lane of traffic. The driver of the vehicle, unaware that the SUV riding the shoulder was a federal agent, partially blocked the shoulder to prevent the SUV from cutting off the Cadillac.

This is when things went south. The Cadillac quickly returned to its position within the legal traffic lane, but Morgan........

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