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Mx Arjuna
Mx Arjuna
@continuation@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting agents outside a Chicago ICE facility ... The rejection of charges by a grand jury, once extremely unusual, is growing more common in cities targeted by Trump's ICE and military...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-two-chicago-area-ice-protesters

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Roger Moore
Roger Moore
@VATVSLPR@c.im replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@continuation
IOW, the grand juries are actually doing their jobs by acting as an independent check on prosecutorial overreach.

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troy_friz_zell
troy_friz_zell
@troy_frizzell@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@continuation

I can't imagine voting to charge anyone for a "crime" because the Fascists accuse them. They would literally need video and eyewitnesses and I'd still be highly skeptical.

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Federation Bot
Federation Bot
@Federation_Bot replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@continuation this is one of the ways we can strike back, ✊

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Becca
Becca
@bweller@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@continuation I love to see it. This is the boss, We The People, exercising their just powers.

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Welkin
Welkin
@welkin7@mstdn.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@continuation This is not good. Whatever reprehensible things coming out of the Orange Orangutan, it does not justify violence. ☮️

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