What’s
with
all
of
these
soft
ass
assault
charges?
Before
headlines
were
focused
on
an
errant
Subway
sandwich
hitting
an
officer’s
uniform,
a
woman
was
arrested
and
charged
with
assault
for
actions
that
followed
an
attempt
to
move
men
accused
of
gang
activity.
Sounds
fancy,
right?
A
lot
of
fluff
to
pad
what
actually
happened
—
she
was
recording
the
police
and
for
whatever
reason
an
officer’s
hand
brushed
a
cement
wall
as
she
was
arrested
for
doing
so.
The
charges
were
such
bullshit
that
prosecutors
weren’t
able
to
find
a
grand
jury
to
charge
her
with
the
“crime.”
And
they
tried
to
do
so
three
times.
Reuters
has
coverage:
Federal
prosecutors
failed
three
times
to
persuade
a
grand
jury
to
indict
a
woman
accused
of
assaulting
an
FBI
agent
during
an
immigration
operation
in
Washington,
D.C.,
last
month,
a
highly
unusual
failure
as
President
Donald
Trump’s
administration
seeks
to
aggressively
charge
street
crime
in
the
nation’s
capital.Three
different
federal
grand
juries
declined
to
indict
Sydney
Reid
for
assaulting,
resisting,
or
impeding
officers,
prosecutors
disclosed
in
a
court
filing
late
on
Monday.
Prosecutors
then
downgraded
the
offense
to
a
misdemeanor.
Oof.
Between
these
grand
juries
and
the
one
that
decided
against
paying
the
sandwich
throwing
any
mind,
Trump’s
“tough
on
crime”
D.C.
crackdown
might
not
be
as
easy
to
carry
out
as
imagined.
Makes
you
wonder
how
flimsy
the
evidence
must
have
been.
Or
maybe
three
separate
grand
juries
deciding
not
to
play
ball
is
an
indication
of
people’s
discontent
about
immigration
operations.
Don’t
worry
—
I’m
sure
there
will
be
some
other
person
filming
the
police
or
burning
an
American
flag
that
prosecutors
can
divert
their
important
resources
toward.
US
Prosecutors
Fail
Three
Times
To
Secure
Indictment
In
FBI
Assault
Case
[Reuters]
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