RNC Arrest Update

[blacksquirrel]

After filing a formal complaint letter last week, we just received a letter in the mail from the county attorney which states that they have "declined prosecution" of my brother's charges, without admitting any wrongdoing on their behalf, and maintaining that my brother did violate the law. Over a month after the incident, this is the first formal

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[tournevis]

Great to hear. Good news. Hear! Hear!

<--- Now you can say this to the cops!

[blacksquirrel]

Thank you! It is all about accountability from here on out.

[incredulity]

I've been wondering if you'd heard any more. Thanks for the update.

[blacksquirrel]

Yes, until now there really hadn't been anything new. Glad to finally pass on some *good* news!

[summers_place]

Thanks for the update. Please keep us posted on what happens going forward.

I'm still seething over the idea that walking alone is regarded as an "unlawful assembly". Even if he'd been at the concert he tried to go to, that wasn't unlawful either.

[blacksquirrel]

You're welcome - Will do!

He was walking in an area where there were other people, but defining a public space full of strangers all going in different directions with different motives as an "assembly" sounds like stretching to me. If that were the case then every lunch hour downtown is an unlawful assembly.

[sylvanwitch]

On the subject of a federal file: There's a file. I have some experience on that front.

While I'm glad to hear that there are no charges and I'm thrilled to hear that you're pursuing civil redress, I am sorry, so sorry, that this happened at all and that you and your family and especially your brother have been given a forcible example of how those who enforce the laws of this nation cannot be given power beyond their ability to self-regulate with integrity.

*hugs* just because.

[blacksquirrel]

Yeah, that's what I figured, we just have no idea what the consequences of that might be. We're particularly concerned about the no-fly list, but we'll find out about that in March when we try to go on our Spring Break trip to Mexico.

Yes, you are so right - I feel more fiercely protective of my brother than I ever have before. It is indeed a little microcosm of much larger problems.

thanks for the {hugs} and support - always much appreciated!

[kitsune13]

Thank you for the update, and I'm so sorry you and your family had to go through this. Good luck with the civil challenge, if you decide o go that route. *hugs*

[blacksquirrel]

Thank you for your thoughts and support! {hugs} I'll let you know how things go from here, but it will probably be a very slow process.