KVRR Local News
January 26, 2021
FARGO (KVRR) – The first trial held in connection with last year’s downtown Fargo riot has ended with acquittals.
A Cass County District Court jury found 24-year-old Negasi Behre “not guilty” of engaging in a riot and preventing arrest.
Behre was arrested May 30 during a clash between protesters and dozens of law enforcement officers, who had formed a line downtown on 1st Avenue North.
Three Fargo police officers who were on scene testified that they were ordered to arrest Behre after he had been walking, shouting and pumping his fist near the police line, but none of the officers could recall specifically what Behre had said.