Prosecutors allege that Agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. pointed a handgun at two people in another vehicle after its driver briefly pulled onto the shoulder in an attempt to prevent Morgan from speeding past slow traffic.

At a news conference, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said that after the victims had returned to the legal traffic lane, Morgan, 35, pulled up to them on the shoulder, lowered his window, and aimed his service weapon into their vehicle.

“Mr. Morgan's conduct was extremely dangerous,” Moriarty said. “Driving while pointing a weapon out of your moving vehicle at the victims who were in another moving vehicle could have led to yet another disastrous incident in a community that has already suffered too many.”

Because Morgan is a federal agent, Moriarty said that he could petition a federal court to take the case, but it would still be adjudicated under state law. If Morgan is convicted, he would not be eligible for a presidential pardon.

As Nazi Germany’s political police force, the Gestapo was responsible for protecting the regime from its supposed racial and political enemies.

The Gestapo earned its infamous reputation. Gestapo policemen used torture and violence in interrogations. They coordinated the deportation of Jews to their deaths. And they harshly repressed resistance movements in Germany and in German-occupied Europe.