Jonathan Caravello, a philosophy lecturer at California State University, Channel Islands, entered a not guilty plea this morning in federal court.

Caravello has been charged with one felony count of assaulting an immigration agent with a deadly or dangerous weapon — in this case, the alleged weapon is a tear gas canister agents deployed against protesters.

Caravello was arrested July 10, in a confrontation between federal agents and activists who were protesting two massive immigration raids at licensed cannabis facilities in Ventura County.

Details of the case

Federal prosecutors allege that agents deployed tear gas as a crowd-control measure and that Caravello picked up a canister and threw it back at officers. Witnesses dispute this account . That day, immigration agent

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