Prosecution Fails Third Attempt At FBI 'Assault' Case – Above the Law

What’s with all of those smooth ass assault expenses? Earlier than headlines have been targeted on an errant Subway sandwich hitting an officer’s uniform, a girl 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 really occurred — she was recording the police and for no matter cause an officer’s hand brushed a cement wall as she was arrested for doing so. The fees 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 3 times.

Reuters has protection:

Federal prosecutors failed 3 times to steer a grand jury to indict a girl 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 completely 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 which determined towards paying the sandwich throwing any thoughts, Trump’s “powerful on crime” D.C. crackdown may not be as straightforward to hold out as imagined. Makes you marvel how flimsy the proof will need to 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 positive 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 Instances To Safe Indictment In FBI Assault Case [Reuters]

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