Anti-Trump activists found innocent, avoiding decades in prison for protesting

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/the-first-of-six-people-on-trial-in-violent-inauguration-day-protests-is-found-not-guilty/2017/12/21/6c97fd84-ded9-11e7-8679-a [login to see] c_story.html?utm_term=.ea18deb8b6a0

In their opening arguments, however, the prosecution conceded they had no evidence that any of the first six defendants engaged in any of the property destruction themselves. Instead, the state urged jurors to convict based on the defendant’s participation in the march itself.

From the start, defense attorneys said their clients and most others in the group of about 500 were peacefully protesting, while only a handful peeled off and became violent. They criticized police for failing to identify those people and said officers unfairly herded a group of about 200 and charged them with rioting.

One 59-year-old juror said the panel tried to determine the mind-set of the defendants and whether “they supported the riotous behavior or they just had strong convictions about what they’re protesting about.” They decided the evidence “only demonstrated that these six individuals walked in a protest.”

The case follows one of the largest mass arrests for vandalism in the city, and authorities spent months preparing for trial and mining for evidence. Authorities confiscated the cellphones of the defendants to examine text messages and videos. And prosecutors sought court orders for defendants’ Internet records, including website visits and Facebook accounts, in hopes of securing additional evidence to support their theory the protesters planned to participate in a violent demonstration.

Before the case was presented to the jury, Judge Lynn Leibovitz threw out the most serious rioting charge against the six, a felony count of inciting a riot.

In all, 212 people were charged in connection with the ­riots. Twenty of them have pleaded guilty, and prosecutors have dropped cases against another 20. An additional 166 defendants are scheduled for trial, in groups of six or seven, through mid-2018.

Any person involved with anarchy is guilty. They cover their faces for a reason, to commit violence without being identified. Im just saying if these people want to cause trouble and hurt people they will be met with violent opposition. Also calling Trump a fascist sounds ridiculous, especially when the fascist liberals protested a free and fairly won election.

People are guilty after they have been convicted in a court of law. You are just saying you want to murder people and skip the law part.

Your viewpoint is more a criminally anarchistic than theirs if you bother to look at it.

What part of the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" is too hard for you to understand.?

The Workers World Party acknowledged that the WWP has “been developing a relationship with the DPRK for more than 40 years." This is the same group that launched J20. This group is as well Soros funded.

https://www.workers.org/2016/12/10/j20resist-org-launching-j20-resistance/

video explains - WWP
https://youtu.be/oGe3pypQWl0

Yet Trump and any one that supports a free economy is the problem.

What at all dies that have to do with the topic at hand or the idiotic assertions that Soros helped the Nazi's? Smoke, mirrors and shouting "squirel" do not work anymore.