Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters

Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    vor 13 Tagen

    All the charges against all of these folks seem to stem from this one act by one person:

    One of the protesters was standing in the woods with an AR-15 and hit [a police officer] in the shoulder. The officer would survive.

    • doesit@sh.itjust.works
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      vor 12 Tagen

      Sounds like they all arrived together. Why would one person of their group hide in the bushes with an AR-15. And shoot at a cop. In a country where accomplice liability is known to be fucked up, that’s just not very bright.