Just a thought by 'Tunia.
![](https://i.postimg.cc/pVmQWsFh/0D8D3516-0831-4557-8622-1F3D90D22898.jpg";)
Posted on 06/27/2020 6:42:08 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
WASHINGTON – Lee Michael Cantrell, 47, of Virginia; Connor Matthew Judd, 20, of Washington, D.C.; Ryan Lane, 37, of Maryland; and Graham Lloyd, 37, of Maine, were charged by criminal complaint yesterday with destruction of federal property, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office’s Criminal Division James A. Dawson, and Acting Chief of the United States Park Police (USPP) Gregory T. Monahan.
The complaint, unsealed today, alleges that on June 22, 2020, the four men along with other unidentified individuals, damaged and attempted to tear down the statue depicting Andrew Jackson located in Lafayette Square. The complaint further alleges that Cantrell was captured on video attempting to pry the statue off its base with a wooden board and trying to pull the statue down with the aid of a yellow strap. The complaint alleges that Judd is seen on video trying to pull down the statue, and that Lane is seen on video affixing a rope to one part of the statue and then pulling on another rope tied to the statue. The complaint also alleges that video of the incident shows Lloyd as he breaks off and destroys the wheels of cannons located at the base of the statue. Lloyd is also captured on video pulling on ropes in an effort to topple the statue, and handing a hammer to an unidentified individual involved in the incident.
Judd was arrested on Friday and appeared in Superior Court of the District of Columbia today. The matter will be transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday, June 29, 2020, where Judd will make his initial appearance before United States Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather. The remaining defendants have not yet been apprehended.
A criminal complaint is a formal accusation of criminal conduct for purposes of establishing probable cause, not evidence of guilt. A defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
“The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia will not stand idly by and allow our national monuments to be vandalized and destroyed. This Office remains steadfast in its commitment to protect the sacred First Amendment right of individuals to peacefully protest, but these charges should serve as a warning to those who choose to desecrate the statues and monuments that adorn our nation’s capital: your violent behavior and criminal conduct will not be tolerated,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin.
“The FBI respects the peaceful exercise of First Amendment rights, but we will not allow opportunists to hijack peaceful protests to incite violence and destruction of property,” said James A. Dawson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Criminal Division. “We will continue to work with our partners to enforce federal laws prohibiting damage to government facilities and property.”
“Members of the United States Park Police are working tirelessly to provide quality law enforcement, safeguard lives, protect our national treasures and symbols of democracy, and preserve the natural and cultural resources entrusted to its service. We are committed to ensuring that citizens are able to freely exercise their constitutional rights in a safe and peaceful manner. The deplorable acts of violence and destruction of property are unacceptable and will continue to be pursued through ongoing collaborative investigations and enforcement efforts,” said Gregory T. Monahan, Acting Chief of the United States Park Police.
In announcing the charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Sherwin, Special Agent in Charge Dawson, and Acting Chief Monahan commended the work of the FBI agents and USPP officers who apprehended the four men and are investigating the incident. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gilead Light, Sara Vanore, and Laura Crane of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
This joint investigation was conducted by the United States Park Police and the FBI Washington Field Office’s Violent Crime Task Force. Significant assistance was also provided by the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. The Violent Crime Task Force is charged with investigating acts of violence impacting the District of Columbia. Tips associated with this matter or other acts of violence can be reported to the FBI at 202-278-2000 or tips.fbi.gov.
Well I am not sure that the people JJ interviewed had a clear sense of what the President is doing, or the need to get on with saving the country. Scalise was a real disappointment - well we have legislation and need to reach across the aisle. I don't mind a legislative strategy to make the Dims look bad, but for goodness sakes nothing important legislatively is going to get through the house and so the government needs to gird its loins and actually use the laws and powers it already has.
Today Trump set off on the March. The RINOS and never Trumpers need to figure out now to follow and support or they won't have a country to loot and pillage anymore.
Watch these cut deals, and turn in their brethren in arms. All it’s gonna take is a weekend in federal lockup, for them to turn, watch. Soy boys, in pajamas will melt like ice cream in July.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You are so right AndyJackson!! This is the most critical time as a nation, we have faced since it's founding!! Sadly the Millenial generation just doesn't get it!!!
#13 is either Colin Kaepernick or Cher...
They apprehended the men, but only one was arrested because three have not yet been apprehended? That’s what it says.
Don’t social workers have better things to do, like removing children from their loving parents based on false allegations of abuse?
Let's calculate how much money her medical treatments cost? How much did Medicare pay? How often does she ask herself, “how am I going to pay $100k in medical expenses? And how many times has she complained she didn't get good care or enough of it paid for?
Here in this long screed is the mind of everyone who believes the collective should pay your bills. She believes in social security, Medicare, capitated medical rates, socialized medicine, food stamps, affirmative action, and whatever else not mentioned but made into law since she graduated high school.
We, as a nation, must decide to end all government handouts and return to charity based help as it was for 200 years, or ultimately go full blown fascism. We're almost there. She's an “elder” now. Which means all younger people haven't a clue that medicine was once paid for out of your own pocket or you didn't get that operation, let alone modern miracle drugs!
Too bad nobody’s ever going to jail over any of this. Yes, that’s how messed up the country is right now because of democrats.
I was rather wondering the same thing. 😁
Suspect #11 appears to be vomiting on the statue. Is that a crime?
It is going to take time to work cases through the courts. Serious charges and high bail bonds are just as effective in the short term. Word gets around to people with poor impulse control that maybe they shouldn't commit criminal acts.
The judge named in that article is a magistrate judge. That's not a real judge. She will basically just be deciding bail. A real judge will be hearing the case.
She's just a magistrate judge. She won't be hearing the case.
Just a thought by 'Tunia.
As I posted on 6/27 on a different thread:
His ex order condemning the tearing down of statues, etc. should have been issued no later than two days after this desecration started.
LET’S GO!
Amen & Amen. What the he’ll took sp long?
While I hope they spend 10 years in federal prison, past history has shown these leftist criminals will face virtually no consequences and will be released back to the streets to terrorize us again.
JoMa
I thought the guy in the photo - possibly Cantrell? -was probably a paid rioter, too. He looks like an old con who was probably released for COVID and is homeless and willing to do anything for $20. If he was paid, this adds a lot to the case against antifa/BLM. RICO...
They are almost certainly intelligence professionals working for someone.
I see now an Ivy League school is cancelling a building named after Woodrow Wilson. Let me challenge them on admittance of any student who likes and follows someone like Farrakhan...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.