Four Men Charged in Federal Court for Attempting to Tear Down Statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square Amid Protests

U.S. Department of Justice ^ | Saturday, June 27, 2020 | Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Columbia

[The Pack Knight]

We should put them on playing cards like we did in Iraq, then hand them out to the bums in DC with promise of an award.

[GnuThere]

Drugs and smoking will do that.

[MIA_eccl1212]

They were all from several different States.

They are not employed it seems... so who paid for their trip??

Are they former convicted felons? Were they recruited in prison?

Were their contact lists siezed along with their $1200-1500 cell phones.
Who pays for their cell services?

We need “contact tracers” and germ/bug exterminators. Expose identify and exterminate every vestige.

[RummyChick]

lolol

too late

internet is forever

[RummyChick]

more details of lloyds involvement
https://www.foxnews.com/us/bid-to-tear-down-andrew-jackson-statue-in-dcs-lafayette-square-leads-to-charges-for-4

he is going down

[Brown Deer]

1666. DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY -- 18 U.S.C. § 1361 As amended on September 13, 1994, if the damage exceeds $100, the defendant is subject to a fine of up to $250,000, ten years imprisonment, or both.

[dp0622]

Ruined too much? What are we, 12?

So we do nothing now because it took so long?

Plus 47 and 37? really?

Get a life folks. Knocking over statues at almost 50

sheesh

[Yulee]

Lee Michael Cantrell, 47, of Virginia; Connor Matthew Judd, 20, of Washington, D.C.; Ryan Lane, 37, of Maryland; and Graham Lloyd, 37, of Maine, were charged by criminal complaint yesterday with destruction of federal property, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office’s Criminal Division James A. Dawson, and Acting Chief of the United States Park Police (USPP) Gregory T. Monahan.
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Trump warned them. “Anyone crossing a state line”.

Only the man who lives in DC can say that the law doesn’t apply to him.

[Yulee]

Social worker - hilarious!
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Actually that is the description of the new police force in Minneapolis.

[Yulee]

Get a life folks. Knocking over statues at almost 50
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It’s a Soros gig. Street theatre and he got paid.

[Charles Martel]

1666. DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY -- 18 U.S.C. § 1361 As amended on September 13, 1994, if the damage exceeds $100, the defendant is subject to a fine of up to $250,000, ten years imprisonment, or both.

I hope the US Attorney skips the fine; it'll just be paid by some leftist group with access to Soros' pockets. Ten years in federal prison will do well as a punishment. That's a pretty standard penalty under Title 18, IIRC.

[Jacquerie]

Exactly. What DC jury found a Trump associate guilty and a juror afterwards admitted he didn’t consider the facts and hated Trump and voted to convict?

We are at the horrid place you described.

[southernindymom]

see you in 10 years

[dennisw]

Hopefully these four will rat out some of the other participants and even better, the ring leaders.

[Sam Gamgee]

Wonder what their plea will be? The narrative I get is that Trump scoured and cleared a peaceful protest in Lafayette for a photo op. Wasn’t the event violent?

[M. Thatcher]

The narrative I get is that Trump scoured and cleared a peaceful protest in Lafayette for a photo op. Wasn’t the event violent?

Two different events. What you're referring to was the riot weeks ago cleared by cops, which was neither peaceful nor a protest.

The arrests in this particular DOJ press release were recent, after miscreants tried to pull down the Andrew Jackson statue. Charges are federal, which has actual teeth.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

Good, now find and charge the rest of these criminals. Destroying public property is illegal and wrong. If you don’t like a statue, talk to your legislature about it.