From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: 75 year old woman sentenced to prison for a peaceful protest
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:29:39 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-06-11 15:13, Loran wrote:
> Alan wrote:
>> "Have THEY been charged?"
>>
>> And the only way to dismiss charges is for people to have BEEN charged.
>
>
>
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/almost-half-of-federal-cases-against-portland-rioters-have-been-dismissed-11618501979
>
> Federal prosecutors in Portland, Ore., have moved to dismiss almost half
> the cases they charged in connection with violence accompanying last
> yearâs protests over racial injustice, as authorities grapple with how
> to tamp down politically motivated unrest that has arisen since then.
>
> Of 96 cases the U.S. attorneyâs office in Portland filed last year
> charging protesters with federal crimes, including assaulting federal
> officers, civil disorder, and failing to obey, prosecutors have dropped
> 47 of them, government documents show. Ten people have pleaded guilty to
> related charges and two were ordered detained pending trial. None have
> gone to trial.
You've not yet shown how those dropped charges are tied to anyone's
affiliations...
...and the claim was that they weren't being charged in the first place...
...and you can't drop charges if they weren't brought in the first place.