Federal prosecutors abruptly dismiss all remaining Inauguration Day rioting cases

[IronLionZion]

Source: Washington Post

District prosecutors on Friday dismissed rioting charges against all remaining defendants arrested after destructive Inauguration Day protests, bringing to a close a controversial case which led to allegations of government overreach.

Prosecutors began filing paperwork Friday afternoon to formally drop the cases against 38 people who had been awaiting trial.

The vandalism of downtown businesses on the day President Trump was sworn in stretched over 16 blocks as part of a disturbance called DisruptJ20. Members of a large group of protesters set small fires and used bricks and crowbars to smash storefronts.

In all, 234 people were arrested and charged with rioting. Of them, 21 defendants pleaded guilty before trial. But prosecutors had been unable to secure convictions at trial against others in the group.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/federal-prosecutors-abruptly-dismiss-all-remaining-inauguration-day-rioting-cases/2018/07/06/d7055ffe-7ee8-11e8-bb6b-c1cb691f1402_story.html?utm_term=.4e0aec218c9a&wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmk=1&wpmm=1

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[RocRizzo55]

1. Wow! Just Wow!

And now there attempts at laws in various states to make protesting illegal. Who knows what the current Supremes Court would rule on them.

[Gothmog]

2. . "Bringing to a close a controversial case which led to allegations of government overreach."

Link to tweet

[mountain grammy]

3. Justice worked.. this time.

[procon]

4. So all those people are left with arrest records and a list of

Federal charges, and huge legal bills... who's going to make them whole again? With an arrest record that will limit their jobs, they probably can't get a security clearance, and their legal debts will prevent them from getting credit and loans for cars of a home.

Maybe that was the point. Trump has a penchant for revenge and retaliation.

[IronLionZion]

5. The Trump administration wanted to make an example of these folks

by throwing the book at them hard enough to deter others and set a precedent

They arrested people who were nearby and had nothing to do with the crimes committed. This had to do with discouraging peaceful protest just in case some anarchists or undercover Trumpsters decide to cause trouble and other people would have to pay the price.

[Tucker08087]

7. It is POSSIBLE, that if the charges were dropped,

They will be able to apply for expungement, although I have learned the hard way that those charges can still be found. I had a ridiculous arrest myself and the charges were dismissed and I was told that once they were expunged, they would only be seen if I were to apply to a position in, say, the FBI. They have come up 7 times within the last year and one was for a job application, so somehow you’re screwed either way, I guess.

[3Hotdogs]

6. Boy, are they gonna get yelled at when Trump hears about this.

[gopiscrap]

8. time for these folks to sue the fuck out of the government

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I expect few if any were part of black bloc

because they do their thing and take off....

[IronLionZion]

10. Unseen footage from Disrupt J20 anti-capitalist march

From a fellow who got his phone back after a year of confiscation

Why yes, that is the imperial march they are singing as the storm troopers capture them for drumpf vader

[Gothmog]

11. This effort was a flop

Link to tweet

[IronLionZion]

12. How long until Trump abruptly dismisses these federal prosecutors?

and replaces them with true fascists who wipe themselves with the constitution?