A change-of-plea hearing was delayed Wednesday for a Los Angeles man accused of assaulting a federal agent during an immigration protest in June.<\/p>\n
Christian Damian Cerna-Camacho, 28, allegedly punched the officer during a demonstration in Paramount, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office. He had been expected to plead guilty Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to a single charge of assault on a federal officer.<\/p>\n
The hearing, however, was postponed until Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, when agents from U.S. Homeland Security Investigations tried to detain Cerna-Camacho for the alleged assault days after the protest, he attempted to drive away from them.<\/p>\n
Agents used their car to chase his vehicle, pinning it between two unmarked vehicles on Whittier Boulevard in Boyle Heights, court papers showed.<\/p>\n
Cerna-Camacho\u2019s vehicle contained a woman passenger and two children in the backseat, officials said.<\/p>\n
DHS released a statement explaining the June 11 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 Patrol.<\/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 Christian Damian Cerna-Camacho for the assault, he attempted to flee. He was ultimately arrested and taken into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A change-of-plea hearing was delayed Wednesday for a Los Angeles man accused of assaulting a federal agent during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23690,4163,17897,7028,7084,48,52,51,47,50,49,2322,728],"class_list":["post-89887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-accused","tag-assaulting","tag-delayed","tag-federal","tag-hearing","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-officer","tag-plea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}