A Minnesota judge appointed by former President Bill Clinton offered no prison time to an anti-deportation activist who was convicted of repeatedly assaulting federal officers, including by later punching an arresting agent in the head, during an uprising against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Clinton-nominated Judge John Tunheim let 28-year-old Isabel Lopez go free at her sentencing hearing on Tuesday, ordering that she only has to pay a small $25 fine as penalty for the federal assault charge she pleaded guilty to.
“You have suffered the sentence already in many respects,” Tunheim told Lopez. “This is over once you pay the $25.”
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Prosecutors, though they did not push for Lopez to serve any prison time, asked Tunheim to at least sentence her to a year of probation. “Federal law enforcement must be able to do their jobs without fear that citizens will come off the street and assault them for simply engaging in a lawful search warrant,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Kline said at sentencing.
According to the criminal complaint, Lopez was part of a mob of anti-ICE agitators who disrupted a drug bust on June 3, 2025, mistakenly believing it was an immigration raid intended to catch illegal immigrants around the Minneapolis area.
Agents with the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, IRS, and Department of Homeland Security were actually executing search warrants in a multiagency narcotics investigation, which involved money laundering, human trafficking, and a transnational criminal organization.
At one of the sites being searched, Lopez was captured on a police body camera interfering with federal investigators on the scene, striking a SWAT agent with a closed fist, kicking him while fellow protesters tried to restrain her, and hurling a softball at other responding officers working to secure the perimeter. Authorities said Lopez punched an FBI agent in the head days later when officers attempted to arrest her.
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