What’s with all of those tender ass assault expenses? Earlier than headlines had been centered on an errant Subway sandwich hitting an officer’s uniform, a lady was arrested and charged with assault for actions that adopted an try to maneuver males accused of gang exercise. Sounds fancy, proper? A number of fluff to pad what truly occurred — she was recording the police and for no matter purpose an officer’s hand brushed a cement wall as she was arrested for doing so. The costs had been such bullshit that prosecutors weren’t capable of finding a grand jury to cost her with the “crime.” And so they tried to take action 3 times.
Reuters has protection:
Federal prosecutors failed 3 times to steer a grand jury to indict a lady accused of assaulting an FBI agent throughout an immigration operation in Washington, D.C., final month, a extremely uncommon failure as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to aggressively cost avenue crime within the nation’s capital.
Three totally different federal grand juries declined to indict Sydney Reid for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, prosecutors disclosed in a courtroom submitting late on Monday. Prosecutors then downgraded the offense to a misdemeanor.
Oof. Between these grand juries and the one which determined towards paying the sandwich throwing any thoughts, Trump’s “robust on crime” D.C. crackdown may not be as simple to hold out as imagined. Makes you marvel how flimsy the proof should have been. Or possibly three separate grand juries deciding to not play ball is a sign of individuals’s discontent about immigration operations. Don’t fear — I’m certain there will likely be another particular person filming the police or burning an American flag that prosecutors can divert their essential sources towards.
US Prosecutors Fail Three Instances To Safe Indictment In FBI Assault Case [Reuters]
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