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

Daar was 12 defendants charged in connection with the Aug. 14, 2017, toppling of a Confederate statue in Durham, N.C., 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...Lees meer