Charges Dropped Against All Durham, NC, Confederate-Statue Protesters

有 12 defendants charged in connection with the Aug. 14, 2017, toppling of a Confederate statue in Durham, 北卡罗来纳州, and by Tuesday afternoon, the charges had been dropped against all of them, ending what one local attorney described as “a waste of taxpayer money in the name of the Confederacy of all things.

His announcement came after the judge in the case acquitted one defendant and dismissed the charges against two others Monday because he believed the prosecution had failed to prove the defendants were guilty of injury to real property, defacing a public building or monument and conspiracy to deface...阅读更多