Arrested as a Chinese spy, former New York cop seeks answers – By The Associated Press (Al Jazeera) / Feb 9, 2023
Baimadajie Angwang says he wants to be reinstated to police force after US prosecutors drop charges against him.
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 agents from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“You’re under arrest,” the bewildered cop was told. The charge: being a secret agent for China.
Angwang, a former US marine, spent six months in a federal detention centre 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.
Then, just as suddenly, it was over. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn dropped the charges on January 19, saying only that they were acting “in the interest of justice”. They didn’t explain further.
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