DISTRICT DISASTER: PIRRO FAILS AGAIN! [View all]
A Washington, D.C., woman accused of assaulting a federal agent was found not guilty by a jury on Thursday, the latest embarrassment for Jeanine Pirro, President Donald Trumps U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Prosecutors had alleged Sidney Lori Reid kicked a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent during an altercation outside the D.C. Jail in July. Reid had been filming Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers while they were detaining a man whod just been released from the jail.
Pirros office tried three times to indict Reid on a felony assault charge, but D.C. grand juries declined to return an indictment each time a highly unusual occurrence that suggested the flimsiness of the governments case.
After whiffing on the felony counts, prosecutors ended up trying Reid on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting or impeding a federal agent but they couldnt even win that case. The jury deliberated for less than two hours on Thursday before returning the verdict of not guilty, WUSA9 reported.
Reid, in a statement through her attorneys, said the verdict shows that this administration and their peons are not able to invoke fear in all citizens.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sidney-lori-reid-not-guilty_n_68f154a8e4b017d85b748cf0
Judge Jeannine better stick to drinking