"Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement."

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Dave Jamieson
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Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

October 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson.bsky.social) 2025-10-16T21:34:12.919Z

[Bluetus]

1. Maybe a lawyer can correct me if I am wrong, but to me, the take-away is this

The SCOTUS has been F-ing with our system in every way imaginable. But the citizen jury is one of the few things the SCOTUS cannot take away from us. If a jury of 12 citizens says this is a bogus prosecution, there is nothing those 6 MFers in robes can do about it.

[Skittles]

3. it sounds good to me, Bluetus

WE THE PEOPLE still have some pull - for now

[TomSlick]

6. This lawyer agrees.

The jury has spoken. The matter is res judicata - a thing decided.

[Mr.WeRP]

12. SCOTUS can overturn civil jury findings.

They have and they will in this case if the court remains as is.

[MLWR]

13. This appears to be a criminal trial: assaulting an FBI agent is a felony.

If the defendent is found "not guilty," double jeopardy attaches and the defendent cannot be tried again for the same charges.

[Mr.WeRP]

15. Yes of course, but I was answering the question regarding

The defendant suing the Federal Government for wrongful prosecution.

[soldierant]

18. I may be confusing this case with a different case,

but I believe this is the one where 3 grand juries refused to indict as a felony, so Judge Boxwine changed it to a miasemeanor, which doesn't require a grand jury to indict, just to bring it to court - and, of course, lostagain.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Just more evidence of the NEW Golden Rule:

Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless

This is great news- kudos to her for speaking out after all she’s been through.

[KPN]

7. I like that ... "the people are not powerless."

[NJCher]

4. I think about this a lot

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."


Government is not for making peoples' lives miserable. Life is tough enough without the organized state using its powers to make it even more difficult.

Because one mentally ill person stole his way into a position of power, millions have to suffer.

It's not like I think we US citizens should be immune from bad government. It's often said that people get the government they deserve. To have not gotten trump, we would have had to enact a law that says no felons can be president. We never guessed the magnitude of his criminality, nor his abhorrence for being held accountable.

In many ways, this hideous experience has been a test of courage, where we have found so many to be abject failures.

Sidney Reid is not one of them.

[Farmer-Rick]

9. Well said

This line is worth repeating: "Because one mentally ill person stole his way into a position of power, millions have to suffer."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Thank you for posting this

[KPN]

8. Bookmarked.

[azureblue]

10. Can she sue

for malicious prosecution? Abuse of power? SLAPP?

I think everyone who is arrested and released should file a malicious prosecution suit and jam up the courts.

[Mr.WeRP]

11. The bar to sue the federal gov't is very high

She may have grounds to but getting the evidence to convict a jury will be difficult if possible at all. She would be best to personally sue the prosecutors she says she feels sorry for. This would yield a more likely successful outcome since immunity ends if she can show her individual rights were violated. This would send a good message to other prosecutors who might want to reconsider “following orders” in the future.

[brakester]

14. ICE rammed her truck...

They have video of it.
Can't she sue the agent who rammed her?

[twodogsbarking]

16. They didn't know she was the Sundance Kid when they said she was cheating. Then they gave up.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Deadline Legal Blog-Not guilty verdict in ICE case sends stark message to Trump DOJ's political prosecutions

It’s not only grand jurors who have rejected the Trump administration’s charges. A trial jury just did the same.

TACO and his minion’s frivolous prosecutions are failing left and right (pun intended).

Not guilty verdict in ICE case sends stark message to Trump DOJ’s political prosecutions www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— Keith Nelson (@msahara.bsky.social) 2025-10-17T18:14:17.538Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/sidney-reid-not-guilty-verdict-ice-trump-doj-rcna238137

There’s already a stunning pattern of grand jurors rejecting indictments sought by the Justice Department in President Donald Trump’s second term — specifically when it comes to allegations of assaulting law enforcement in connection with protests against the administration’s abuses of power. As time goes on, we’ll learn what trial jurors think of the politically motivated cases that make it that far.

We got a prime example Thursday in the case of Sidney Reid, who was acquitted in Washington, D.C.

Grand jurors had declined to approve a felony indictment against her a shocking three times. But instead of taking those serial rejections as a sign of serious problems with the case (a rare failure to get past even one grand jury should’ve done that), the DOJ in Jeanine Pirro’s office moved forward with a misdemeanor prosecution, which didn’t require grand jury approval. Law enforcement had alleged that Reid “forcefully pushed” an FBI agent’s hand against a cement wall and “caused lacerations” on the agent’s hand during an immigration enforcement protest.

Powerful statements from Reid and her lawyers following the not guilty verdict frame the stakes in her case — and in Trump’s second term more broadly. She said the verdict “shows that this administration and their peons are not able to invoke fear in all citizens.” Calling the president “a crazy person,” she said she even felt sorry for the prosecutors, “who must be burdened by Trump’s irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man.” Her lawyers, Tezira Abe and Eugene Ohm of the federal public defender’s office, said the DOJ “can continue to take these cases to trial to suppress dissent and to try and intimidate the people. But in the end, as long as we have a jury system, our citizens will continue to rebuke the DOJ through speedy acquittals.”

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson.bsky.social) 2025-10-16T21:34:12.919Z

In another notable case, in which D.C. grand jurors refused to approve felony charges against sandwich thrower Sean Dunn, prosecutors are also moving forward with a misdemeanor case after failing to get an indictment. Ahead of his potential trial, this week Dunn filed a motion to dismiss the misdemeanor assault charge based on vindictive and selective prosecution......

While the standard to secure indictments is relatively low — making the failure to get them in several cases this year so remarkable — prosecutors must convince jurors beyond a reasonable doubt in any case that makes it to trial. Reid’s acquittal is a message to the administration — and to the lawyers trying these cases — that it’s one thing to get past (or in Reid’s case, around) a grand jury, but trial juries can stand in the way of convictions for bogus or weak charges

[LittleGirl]

19. Those last two paragraphs

Made me smile. Thanks for sharing!