What’s with all of those comfortable ass assault expenses? Earlier than headlines have 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 variety 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 have 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 three occasions.
Reuters has protection:
Federal prosecutors failed thrice to influence 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 road 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 court docket submitting late on Monday. Prosecutors then downgraded the offense to a misdemeanor.
Oof. Between these grand juries and the one that decided against paying the sandwich throwing any thoughts, Trump’s “robust on crime” D.C. crackdown won’t be as straightforward to hold out as imagined. Makes you marvel how flimsy the proof should have been. Or perhaps 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 individual filming the police or burning an American flag that prosecutors can divert their vital sources towards.
US Prosecutors Fail Three Times To Secure Indictment In FBI Assault Case [Reuters]
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