WAPO: Not guilty verdicts for the first six people on trial in violent Inauguration Day protests

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The first six people to face trial in Inauguration Day protests that turned destructive were acquitted of all charges, a victory for not only the defendants but also for advocates who argued the government overreached in its effort to prosecute more than 200 people arrested as they marched through the nation’s capital.

Following a nearly four-week trial and two full days of deliberations, a D.C. Superior Court jury delivered not guilty verdicts Thursday on multiple charges of rioting and destruction of property.

The defendants, who include a nurse for cancer patients, a freelance photographer and a college student, joined throngs of protesters who took to the streets on Jan. 20 to protest President Trump’s election. Prosecutors said the six were among a group that cut a violent swath through 16 bocks of the city, smashing windows of businesses, tossing newspaper boxes into the street and damaging a limousine. Authorities tallied the damages at more than $100,000.

As the jury foreman read the not guilty verdicts, the defendants began to smile. One of them, Alexei Wood, a 37-year-old freelance photographer from San Antonio, covered his face, sat down and began sobbing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/the-first-of-six-people-on-trial-in-violent-inauguration-day-protests-is-found-not-guilty/2017/12/21/6c97fd84-ded9-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. FUCK yes

There is still justice





Do I need to tell you what will happen when the same cases come before a trump judge in the future?

the jury will be lucky to hear any of their defense.

[Achilleaze]

2. Take that, you illegitimate draft-dodging 'republican family-values' role model

Take that, and a massive rebuke from the UN - and a FAIL grade from the vast majority of Americans, and a Freaking FAIL grade from all honest, decent and loyal Americans.

[Gothmog]

3. This case should never have gone to trial