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Woburn police officer suspended as his involvement in deadly Charlottesville, Va., 'Unite the Right' rally investigated​

Boston Herald|34 minutes ago
A Woburn Police Officer has been put on leave as department leadership and, now, the Middlesex District Attorney investigate allegations that he helped to plan the 2017 white supremacist rally

 

[butters]

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Woburn police officer suspended as his involvement in deadly Charlottesville, Va., 'Unite the Right' rally investigated​

Boston Herald|34 minutes ago
A Woburn Police Officer has been put on leave as department leadership and, now, the Middlesex District Attorney investigate allegations that he helped to plan the 2017 white supremacist rally

5 years for it to even be investigated

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.wvtf.org/news/2023-04-18/tiki-torch-marchers-face-charges-in-charlottesville

In the summer of 2017, hundreds of people marched to the iconic rotunda at UVA on the night before a deadly right-wing rally in downtown Charlottesville. Many carried tiki toches, and UVA law professor Ann Coughlin says that could be illegal under state law.

“We have a statute that prohibits people from burning an object in a public place in a manner that has a tendency to place others in fear of death or bodily injury.”

Soon after the attack, the commonwealth’s attorney – Republican Robert Tracci – decided not to prosecute, but the current prosecutor, Democrat Jim Hingely, convened a grand jury which has indicted multiple individuals for a class 6 felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.

Elections have consequences.

 

[KeithD]

T'was quite a night. I live three blocks from the UVa Rotunda. They didn't have a permit to demonstrate on University grounds, so I don't know the difficulty of finding something to charge them with. Their permit to demonstrate in what was then Lee Park the next day should have been immediately revoked for marching on the University the previous night. Looking forward to a long list of those being charged. (But then the counterdemonstrators didn't have a permit to be at Lee Park the next day either. This was a "both sides bad" outsiders' event.)

 

[KeithD]

Only three men have been indicted--for menacing with lighted torches.