Department of Justice prosecutors across the US have suffered a string of embarrassing defeats in their aggressive pursuit of criminal cases against people accused of “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers.
In recent months, the federal government has relentlessly prosecuted protesters, government critics, immigrants and others arrested during immigration operations, often accusing them of physically attacking officers or interfering with their duties.
But many of those cases have recently been dismissed or ended in not guilty verdicts.
In several high-profile cases, the prosecutions fell apart because they relied on statements by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers that had no supporting evidence or in some instances were proven by video footage to be blatantly false.
Criminal defense lawyers said it was unusual for federal prosecutors to pursue a high volume of charges over minor clashes with law enforcement, and that it was extraordinary to see the DoJ lose case after case across jurisdictions.
As always, the cruelty is the point. As the article denotes, it really only takes a few days’ incarceration to ruin someone’s life, seeing as how most Americans are living hand-to-mouth or paycheck-to-paycheck, so it takes very little effort to achieve the cruelty that the DOJ and the fascists want.
And even if the incarceration itself doesn’t ruin your life, having an arrest on your record likely will.
Increasingly, companies screen applications for jobs automatically, rejecting anyone with a criminal record of any kind.
These systems rarely if ever distinguish between lawful and unlawful arrests and they sure as hell don’t ignore breaking of inherently unjust laws.
Thought you could indict a ham sandwhich?
That’s kind of the point. The prosecutors had the grand jury to themselves with no defense present to question anything and they couldn’t even get them to return a finding of probable cause. Very embarrassing for them
There are numerous ongoing cases under different circumstances but yea, wild stuff
