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sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• aloofPenguin@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  https://abcnews.com/Politics/olympian-arrested-reflecting-pool-damage/story?id=134078925

  Three-time U.S. Olympian David Hearn told ABC News that police arrested him on Friday after he touched a piece of blue coating that was partially detached from the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. 

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  • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    According to this, the charge is vandalism in DC Superior Court. That would be a misdemeanor, carrying less than 1 year in prison.

    I wasn’t able to find a case entry in DC Superior Court’s docket system.

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    • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Unlike what most people seem to think, the US criminal court system in a manner that would allow someone to go to prison for years for this. Trump prosecutors have a reputation for poor performance in court. Grand juries refuse to indict these defendants for obviously trivial crimes, and trial juries will acquit.

      They tried to charge someone with assaulting a federal agent for lobbing a sandwich at a Border Patrol goon during a protest. The Trump-appointed chief prosecutor in Washington made a TikTok about how they were coming down hard on protestors. It went to trial. The jury acquitted.

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      • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        People have spent decades in prison for a bit of weed. It’s pretty fucked and I fully expect this person to spend at least a couple years in prison. It’s fascist dictator shit and this is a fascist dictatorship.

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