A federal jury on Friday found Caleb Alexander Ranney not guilty of charges that he assaulted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and damaged federal property during a protest in San Francisco last year. Ranney, a resident of Pittsburg in the East Bay, was arrested Aug. 8, 2025, outside the ICE field office at 630 Sansome St. The two federal misdemeanors carried a maximum sentence of two years in prison if he had been convicted. Video from several angles was central to the weeklong trial. It showed protesters banging on a garage door as federal agents escorted two vans out of the building. The door came off its track, and a Federal Protective Service inspector fired pepper-ball rounds through it toward the crowd. The protesters ran across the street. The footage then showed agents emerging from another entrance. After an agent picked up a protester’s backpack, Ranney ran back and pushed ICE officer Joe Love. Ranney and another protester were tackled and detained. Ranney’s defense argued that agents had escalated the confrontation and that the government had not established that Love was carrying out official duties when he confronted protesters. Assistant Federal Public Defender Angela Chuang said Ranney returned after an agent took the backpack and argued that the encounter should not have become a federal criminal case. The parties agreed that Federal Protective Service Inspector Stephen Glumaz fired pepper balls into the crowd in violation of agency policy. He was later decertified from using the equipment for his conduct at the protest and at a separate incident on Aug. 20, 2025. Prosecutor Eli Cohen argued that the use of force and broader questions about immigration enforcement were distractions from the evidence against Ranney. He told jurors the government had proved the assault charge beyond a reasonable doubt, while acknowledging that the alleged assault did not knock the officer down. U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Hixson presided over the trial. The jury’s verdict ends the prosecution of Ranney on the two charges.