A 70-year-old air force veteran who had been charged with felony assault on a federal officer as he protested an ICE raid has told the Guardian he is now considering a civil lawsuit after all charges against him were dropped.

The US Department of Justice moved to dismiss all charges against Dana Briggs, who had been charged despite a video of the incident, which showed masked Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents advancing on the elderly veteran and knocking him over.

In court papers, the justice department had earlier alleged Briggs committed assault when he “made physical contact with an agent’s arm while the agent attempted to extend the safety perimeter” around an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois , where Briggs was protesting ramped-up immigration raids in

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