Originally Posted by
jphripjah
That's a fair point, but you need to "forcibly assault" a federal officer to be guilty under the statute. Lunging wouldn't be enough for arrest/conviction but it might be enough for them to give you special treatment for their protection in future interactions.
Yes, but that "special protection" would normally not be a personal greeting team followed by seizure of all electronics. There are combative people, there are stupid people, there are people of color who aren't combative or stupid, and there are lots of other combinations. This is not my area of expertise, but from my vague understanding of federal agencies, in order to get a seizure team to meet you at the gate and then to justify the review of devices there had to be a lot more than one angry/retributive note in someone's file about lunging at an officer.