Trump Inauguration Day rioting charges against 200+ people abruptly dropped by U.S.

Charges brought by the U.S. government against more than 200 people who protested on the day Donald Trump was inaugurated President were abruptly dropped today.

The government's case amounted to threatening 234 people with a maximum sentence of 70 years in prison for 6 broken windows. It's great that reason prevailed. It's not great that it took a year and a half, and that exercising their right to free speech cost these people so much.

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1015315645460832256

Keith Alexander at the Washington Post:

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