Cops Turn On Their Lefty DA After Anti-ICE Rioters Dodge Charges

Police in Vermont blasted a local prosecutor for her decision to not file charges against six people who took part in a violent clash with law enforcement in March.

Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George announced Wednesday that she would not be filing the charges against six people arrested during a violent protest opposing an operation by United States 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Burlington-area TV station NBC5 News reported. Police and public safety officials tore into George for the decision, saying that while ICE caused “harm” to the community, attacking law enforcement shouldn’t be tolerated.

“I am confident that some protesters escalated the situation and went beyond civil disobedience into unacceptable and perhaps criminal behavior, including the three individuals cited by BPD – but I am just as confident that there were some law enforcement officers who agitated, who escalated, and who responded in a way that may ultimately be deemed legal, but was also unacceptable,” George claimed in a statement released Wednesday. “So to charge these six individuals with no criminal records, and expect that they bear the burden of all the harm caused that day — is not something I was interested in our office being a part of.”

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