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Jun 24, 2020, 5 tweets

Had missed this: Rizwan Qureshi, who co-led the prosecution of Trump inauguration protesters, conceded that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for DC overreached when charging so many protesters they conceded hadn’t destroyed any property. #J20 washingtonpost.com/local/public-s…

Some background on the #J20 trials, an instance of prosecutorial overreach by DOJ that received far less attention than it should have at the time. huffpost.com/entry/protesti…

Here’s what Qureshi said in closing arguments in a trial in which the government conceded they had no evidence that any of the defendants had actually destroyed property huffpost.com/entry/inaugura…

Qureshi, a fellow Eagles fan, was responsible for one of the funniest moments of the trial: https://t.co/mk6W0JV1Xl

This was also quite a moment. https://t.co/44opNgjV3P

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