Posted on 12/14/2017 12:58:50 PM PST by deplorableindc
A federal prosecutor said Thursday that jurors must convict six people arrested during President Trumps inauguration because they agreed to destroy your city and now they are hiding behind the First Amendment.
The trial of the first group of inauguration defendants is widely watched, and the verdicts will set the tone for trials of more than 180 other people mass-arrested on Jan. 20.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberations late Thursday or Friday on six felony property-destruction charges and two misdemeanor rioting charges.
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Jury Nullification: coming right up.
If we can’t convict these criminal scumbags our country is lost.
agreed to destroy your city and now they are hiding behind the First Amendment.
ANd if they would have said it was related to “Labor Union Activities” NO charges would have been filed in the first place.
Depends on who appointed the judge.
Freedom of speech does NOT include the freedom to destroy other people’s property.
This was a stupid comment by the prosecutor if he did not point that out.
Maybe. Snow flakes sit on juries now.
Live by the First Amendment, die by the FA. Allowing bad people to hide behind the FA is not doing this country any good and it may result in the application of the tools of the Second Amendment.
Live by the First Amendment, die by the FA. Allowing bad people to hide behind the FA is not doing this country any good and it may result in the application of the tools of the Second Amendment.
You don’t get to riot and destroy other peoples’ property, no matter how angry you are.
Brings to mind when the previous guy was elected. I didn’t riot!
Yep. No doubt about it.
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