Posted on 06/28/2020 2:49:17 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Four individuals who allegedly attempted to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson near the White House were charged Friday with the destruction of federal property, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced Saturday.
The suspects — Connor Matthew Judd, 20, of Washington, D.C.; Graham Lloyd, 37, of Maine; Ryan Lane, 37, of Maryland; and 47-year-old Virginia resident Lee Michael Cantrell — are said to have tried both damaging and yanking down the Jackson statue with other unidentified people on June 22.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. stated of the alleged incident: The complaint further alleges that Cantrell was captured on video attempting to pry the statue off its base with a wooden board and trying to pull the statue down with the aid of a yellow strap. The complaint alleges that Judd is seen on video trying to pull down the statue, and that Lane is seen on video affixing a rope to one part of the statue and then pulling on another rope tied to the statue. The complaint also alleges that video of the incident shows Lloyd as he breaks off and destroys the wheels of cannons located at the base of the statue. Lloyd is also captured on video pulling on ropes in an effort to topple the statue, and handing a hammer to an unidentified individual involved in the incident. Judd was arrested on Friday and appeared in Superior Court of the District of Columbia today… The remaining defendants have not yet been apprehended.
“The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia will not stand idly by and allow our national monuments to be vandalized and destroyed,” Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin said in a statement.
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I was hoping the E.O. stated MANDATORY 10 year sentencing for EACH conviction. Third conviction starts 10 years at hard labor.
Out of town rioters , now find out who paid them and who told them to do this. No one comes all the way from ME at their own expense to riot unless they were compensated.
Right on....exactly right!!!
Yes.....I bet money when the convictions and jail sentences start this Crap will end!!!
Meanwhile we’re also supposed to believe the FBI hasn’t been able to identify George Soros and other funders, the organizers of all the bricks and fireworks being dropped off in cities, the Marxist heads of BLM, Antifa, etc., etc.?
Oh, and of course we still have the VP’s seditious coronavirus task force advocating for all street criminals to wear masks such that it’s very hard to identify them for prosecution and mere mousy mobs feel emboldened to commit crimes they otherwise wouldn’t commit.
These well funded groups need to be taken down
Gonna have to build more prisons to hold all these ghetto-wannabe white boys.
Just checked the Bangor Daily News. Nothing about their homeboy in it.
BTW, for anyone else who was unaware of this...Maine is requiring a negative WuFlu test for tourists within 72 hours of visiting the state.
HAMMER THEM
along with all the Sorosnazi
If they had jobs they could not leave at will.. so tearing up our nation is their job.. hired to destroy our history.. obama must be pleased.
Note to Maine: But allowing your residents to participate in rioting, risk exposure, then come home and expose your state is just fine and dandy.
Got it.
Not going back to Maine until you get a new gov.
Per another ME local news outlet: looks like it’a a 14 day self-quarantine requirement OR the negative WuFlu test within 72 hours of visiting.
Yeah, that’ll be great for tourism.
Bet Lloyd won’t be required to self-quarantine
Where will they be tried? In DC, in front of a Marxist judge?
Project Veritas shows exactly what is happening. The money, the offensive military training. Medical for pepper spray.
Let’s start punishing these A-holes!
Unless they are college professors. They would just make it a "class project".
Not one politician or police officer did shit to stop
This.....it was alll a Trump! Thank you Mr President!
There won't be any convictions. It has become impossible to form a group of twelve people who would unanimously vote to convict violent anarchists, especially in or near DC.
ML/NJ
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