The spy who wasn't? NYPD officer wants answers

(9 Feb 2023)
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4418687
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York- 19 January 2023
1.  Baimadajie Angwang walking out of court after charges where dropped against him
ANNOTATION:  Two years before NYPD officer Baimadajie Angwang walked free last month, he was arrested by the FBI for allegedly being a "foreign agent."
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New York- 1 February 2023
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Baimadajie Angwang, NYPD officer accused of being a foreign agent:
"I would use the word kind of like hopeless, really hopeless, because you are going to work. Then you've got five or six agents come out with rifles pointing in you're facing at very close distance."
3. Various of Angwang and his lawyer John Carman
ANNOTATION: Angwang had gone from an asylum seeker, a U.S. Marine and an NYPD officer to an accused foreign agent seemingly overnight.
ANNOTATION: The Justice Department claimed Angwang was acting on behalf of China and spying on the American Tibetan community.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Baimadajie Angwang, NYPD officer accused of being a foreign agent:
"They made me a three-way traitor, because the way they did it. So I'm a traitor of my birth place, right? I'm a traitor of America. I'm a traitor of the Tibetan community, which I was never a traitor. I never betrayed anyone. My fellow Tibetans, my fellow Americans, anybody."
5. Various of Angwang and his lawyer John Carman
ANNOTATION: He spent six months in prison, where he was only allowed to see his wife and child once.
ANNOTATION: Angwang's lawyer, John Carman, says his client was caught up in the Trump era 'China Initiative' which sought to stop Chinese espionage.
++WHITE FLASH++
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New York- 19 January 2023
7. Angwang talking with reporters after his case was dismissed
UPSOUND (English) ) Baimadajie Angwang:
"I just want to say thank you for coming. Thanks for all the people who trusted me, who believed me since the beginning. My family, my friends, my Marine Corps brothers, my NYPD colleagues. Thank you."
ANNOTATION: Then on Jan. 19th, the Justice Department dropped all charges against the man they once described as "the definition of an insider threat."
ANNOTATION: Angwang is free, but he now wants answers.
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Baimadajie Angwang, NYPD officer accused of being a foreign agent:
"Why did you start the investigation on me? Why did you drop all the charges? We want to know. Because you can't just go after an American citizen, ruin his life. Put him in jail for six month. Frame him as a spy. All these damage is we can never go back. We want the answer to. Why did you start and why did you end it? We want an explanation, and we are demanding that."
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New York - December 2017
9. Various exteriors of Brooklyn federal court
ANNOTATION: The U.S. attorney's office wouldn't comment on Angwang's case. His lawyer says prosecutors could bring charges again, but it is unlikely.
STORYLINE:
On a September day in 2020, New York City Police Officer Baimadajie Angwang kissed his toddler goodbye and was about to drive to work when he was surrounded by rifle-toting FBI agents.
You're under arrest, the bewildered cop was told. The charge: Being a secret agent for China.
Angwang, a former U.S. Marine, spent six months in a federal detention center before he was freed on bail while awaiting trial on charges that he fed information about New York's Tibetan community to officials at the Chinese consulate in New York.
Now, Angwang says he wants to be reinstated to the police force, which suspended him with pay while the case was pending. But more than that, he wants answers.

[kyleolsenwalsh]

They stopped after I told them your are good guy.

[jacksonburch]

This officer probably knows how the NYPD spies on new yorkers (such as reading through their phones, real time location tracking, neighborhood policing, etc) and threatened to expose that information and that's why he wasn't charged