The D.C. U.S. attorney's office has dropped charges against all Inauguration Day protesters who haven't yet been tried.
Of the 234 people arrested in Washington on President Trump's Inauguration Day, 38 were still awaiting trial. Defendants were charged with rioting that caused more than $100,000 in damage, BuzzFeed News' Zoe Tillman reports. But a statement from the U.S. attorney's office released Friday now says those charges will be dismissed.
Twenty-one of the 234 arrested people did plead guilty, though those pleas happened before defendants went to trial, per The Washington Post. Everyone who went to trial was either acquitted or jurors could not agree on a guilty verdict. These "results," as the statement puts it, led the U.S. attorney's office to drop all remaining charges.
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