Security Officer Indicted in Tourist Assault Case
From Times Wire Reports
A Homeland Security officer accused of throwing a Chinese tourist against a wall and using pepper spray on her was indicted by a federal grand jury in Buffalo.
Robert Rhodes, 43, is charged with criminally violating the civil rights of 37-year-old Zhao Yan by causing her bodily injury in the July 21 altercation in Niagara Falls.
Zhao is suing the United States for $5 million. The suit says she was thrown against a wall and kneed in the head by Rhodes, leaving her cut and bruised.
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