Re: Protest at US attys office demands charges against J20 arrestees be dropped.
Posted by:
Luke's Master
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Date: February 19, 2017 07:19PM
Luke Wrote:
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> On the 20th of January, as Donald Trump was
> inaugurated, police unlawfully trapped and
> arrested over 230 protesters, journalists, and
> bystanders. Police made no attempt to distinguish
> who did what simply charging all arrestees with
> felony riot, which carries a theoretical maximum
> ofg ten years in prison. On the 18th of February,
> protesters gathered at the US Attorney's office to
> demand that these charges be dropped.
>
> Many of the unprecedented charges and police
> actions during the #DisruptJ20 events raise
> serious questions about rule of law. In 2005, the
> DC Council passed legislation explicitly
> forbidding mass arrests of protests. Police defied
> their own law and carried out the J20 kettle and
> mass arrest anyway. This sort of behavior as well
> as the use of police weapons never before fired at
> protesters suggests that when those in power are
> frightened by popular opposition, rule of law goes
> out the window and police are simply ordered to do
> whatever is expedient. Organizers of the Feb 18
> Drop the Charges protest stated "We believe these
> charges are politically motivated; intended to
> intimidate protesters and silence dissent against
> the Trump administration." Protesters stated that
> these extreme charges are intended as a direct
> attack on free speech, and the fact that two
> independent journalists and a freelance reporter
> are still facing felony charges lends much
> credance to this suspicion.
>
> It is worth remembering that DC does not have its
> own prosecutors, relying instead on US Attorneys,
> who being Federal now answer to Trump.
>
> There is a related petition demanding that these
> felony riot charges against three journalists
> still facing charges from the J20 mass arrest be
> dropped. Charges were dropped several days after
> the mass arrest against four paid, credentialed
> journalists after police spokemen futily tried to
> defend the logic behind these charges. The other
> three journalists are still facing major felony
> charges along with the protesters and the
> bystanders netted in the kettle.
Luke...you are a long haired pussy that has no woman...get on with life and back to flipping burgers.