Posted on 06/04/2018 11:26:57 AM PDT by deplorableindc
A jury acquitted accused Trump inauguration rioter Casey Webber on all charges Monday, dealing another blow to federal prosecutors struggling to convict participants of a window-smashing anti-capitalism march.
Webber was accused of knowing about plans for mayhem before joining the march on Jan. 20, 2017, but prosecutors offered no evidence that he personally destroyed property. The chaotic march ended in heavy use of pepper spray and batons by police, who mass-arrested more than 230 people.
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One officer who testified at the trial roamed the D.C. courthouse last week, wearing a T-shirt that read, Police Brutality
or doing what their parents should have? said attorney Matthew Rist, who is representing Felice.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Sessions is playing 3D chess; just wait!
We need strong leadership at DOJ.
but prosecutors offered no evidence that he personally destroyed property.
>Why not?
They’re probably young lawyers. Maybe they’re throwing the game; sort of like “prosecutor nullification.”
“you wont catch me in a group doing that sort of thing.”
What if your group is attacked by leftard scoundrels?
Then you defend yourself, but then that isn’t what I was talking about. Those folks go out there seeking to cause mayhem.
We don’t.
“We dont.”
Clearly. Way back when the sodomite “pride” parades started, I halfway expected someone—possibly a large group of someones—to open fire on one from the rooftops.
AFAIK, it has never happened.
Why? We don’t.
Agreed.
Take a deep breath before reading the below article, which leaves only the question, why did they do that?:
D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin found that prosecutors with the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Columbia, which is part of the Justice Department, had committed Brady violations by withholding undercover videos that James OKeefes Project Veritas had turned over to the government.
It really sounds like you have some overzealous prosecutors that not only overcharged people but then withheld evidence.
Overcharging is hard to blame on underlings where withholding evidence might be.
Falling on their own sword for a reverse psychology psyops to make the right look bad seems unlikely too.
It kinds of sounds like overzealous incompetence.
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