Climate Change Protesters Who Threw Red Powder on U.S. Constitution Display in the National Archives Rotunda Charged With a Felony
“We take such vandalism very seriously and we will insist that the perpetrators be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
At the end of January, two far left climate change protesters entered the rotunda at the National Archives and threw red powder on the Constitution display case. They were eventually arrested and have now been charged with a felony.
Will they actually be prosecuted?
FOX News reports:
Climate activists hit with felony charges for defacing US Constitution’s display case
Two left-wing climate activists have been hit with felony charges after defacing the U.S. Constitution’s display case.
The Department of Justice on Friday announced that Donald Zepeda of Maryland and Jackson Green of Utah have been charged with felony destruction of government property following a climate change stunt that involved dumping red powder on the encasement protecting the U.S. Constitution in the National Archives Rotunda.
“The National Archives Rotunda is the sanctuary for our nation’s founding documents,” Dr. Colleen Shogan, Archivist of the United States, said in a statement following the incident. “They are here for all Americans to view and understand the principles of our nation. We take such vandalism very seriously and we will insist that the perpetrators be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
The duo’s vandalism, which occurred on Feb. 14, immediately led to the evacuation of the rotunda. A video shot by a supporter shows the pair smothered in the red powder, which also appeared strewn across the Constitution’s protective display case.
Zepeda and Green appeared to be linked to the left-wing climate activist group Declare Emergency, which demands that President Biden “declare a formal state of climate emergency and begin [to] make full use of his executive authority to save this country from collapse.”
Here’s a video of the incident:
It’s about time some of these protesters faced consequences. We should be doing the same thing for the people who throw soup on works of art.
Finally some good news!
Climate activists hit with felony charges for defacing US Constitution's display case https://t.co/Y9YqQ5xcoD #FoxNews
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) March 1, 2024
I hope they throw the book at them — and send a bill for the cleanup. https://t.co/cB4rVZZsyZ
— Rep. Darrell Issa (@repdarrellissa) March 2, 2024
Good. Slam them hard. These insane climate protesters need to be labeled domestic terrorists and dealt with accordingly.https://t.co/lWhzicIa7H
— DissocialSpace (@DissocialSpace) March 2, 2024
According to the press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, they caused $50,000 in damage:
Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were charged in a superseding indictment, unsealed yesterday in U.S. District Court, with the February 14, 2024, attack on the U.S. Constitution housed at the National Archives in Washington D.C.
Zepeda and Green are charged with felony destruction of government property for dumping a fine red powder over the document’s display case in the Rotunda of the Archives building. The cost of cleaning up after the stunt, which was intended to draw attention to Climate Change, has already exceeded $50,000. In addition, the act closed the Rotunda for four days.
Perhaps these two will be made an example of for others. They certainly deserve it.
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I believe they will get a slap on the wrist and it doesn’t matter they were CHARGED with a felony. Someone with a black dress, a toy hammer, and a hockey puck to hit with it will downshift the charges to something minor.
The ONLY thing that will bring this kind of thing to an end is good old fashioned street justice.
@TGG, completely agree. DOJ will spend millions of taxpayer dollars chasing them in court and in the end they’ll get off with community service b/c, you know, these climate warriors are right. At the least they should be getting dunned for that $50,000. That’s a way to scare off these clowns. Make them pay the bill for their annoying mischief.
Listen to what the Climate Alarmists are actually saying. The seeds of Genocide are already present in their theology. When they say the Earth cannot support the current population they are hinting at a very dangerous future.
Sounds good! Let’s start with them.
Fines won’t be enough, as other far lefties will come up with the money.
They need to be mauled by a bear.
they need a visit to an insane asylum
First one, then the other.
One of the miscreants had already vandalized the exhibit for the Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial at the National Gallery back in November. He was ordered to stay away from DC, monuments, national parks and museums. The judge did at least order him to be held in jail since he violated the previous order.
Send them to a Joe Manchin event and see how they handle things.
Uh huh. Somehow I suspect dumb and dumber will end up skating anyway given Biden’s DOJ.
In late May of 2020, four suspects were arrested in Las Vegas for an attack inside a US federal courthouse which resulted in broken doors, windows, spray-painted walls, destroyed display cases and stolen items totaling over $70K in damages/loss. They were all charged with this same crime, 18 U.S. Code § 1361.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/fourth-defendant-pleads-guilty-damaging-us-courthouse-during-may-2020-protest-las-vegas
I couldn’t find any sentencing information for the other three suspects. But, the one mentioned above was sentenced to ‘3-years probation‘ and $6K in restitution. Meanwhile, some J6ers sat in solitary confinement for months only to be charged with ‘illegal parading.’
Most of the others who were indicted and eventually pleaded guilty received similar sentences, either probation alone or probation +6-mos ‘house arrest.’ The government prosecutors only asked for 1-month prison sentences. 1-month.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/las-vegas-protester-sentenced-for-damaging-federal-building-2405047/
Their charges were during Trump presidency, but their hearings were during Biden…
Duh
Not sure whom is the bigger mockery of everything patriotic we stand for, the climactivists or the thumb-twiddling security guards.
I suspect the security guards are under strict orders as to what they can and can’t do.
In their support , to. A defeee, they didn’t know if the powder had some kind of Posion on it or them
Still cowards
“two far left climate change protesters” aka Democrat party operatives. By 9 am tomorrow there will be a hundred Democrat defense lawyers lined up to defend them pro bono.
somehow think that if they’d tried a similar stunt at the tomb of the unknowns these two would be spending a few months in traction at bethesda
I would hope to God you are correct.
Sadly, I suspect you are wrong. I believe the military are under strict orders to not be violent and make physical contact.
I suggest no one try it. I can assure you that the Tomb Guards are not just ceremonial.
Well, the Royal Guards at Buckingham Palace won’t do anything, but the armed response team nearby will. I hope we have similar arrangements.
If they’d only applied black face and protested systemic racism they’d have received an award.
If either were my son I’d never allow in my house again.
They demand that Joe Biden* “…make full use of his executive authority to save this country from collapse.”
Blithering morons. Nothing would bring about the collapse of our country faster than the elimination of cheap and reliable sources of energy. You know, like fossil fuels.
So far, Joe Biden has signed 133 executive orders, 169 presidential memoranda, 563 proclamations, and 113 notices. But that is not enough to save the country from collapse. If he would just double or triple that number I would feel a little better.
And yet, he can’t bring himself to enforce existing border laws.
Looks like the fix is in just from that video. You aren’t allowed to have your phone out in that rotunda…I’ve been there and it’s very secure. The fact that they are being video’d that close suggests some cooperation or passivity by security in the area.
Probably a cohort
Good. Now charge the security people who let them in to do this. And their supervisors. Because there is no way you or I could walk into the National Archives carrying red powder, and not be either detected or stopped.
The security people were in on this.
They should be in jail right now waiting for trial. I was pretty harsh on the those two female non-security guards that just stood there but now I’m thinking that they didn’t know what the powder was and didn’t want to get too close just in case. They should have just shot both
Yes
The fact that they didn’t know what the powder was and if it was a chemical attack makes their actions all the more insane and unreasonable. THey should have tackled the global warming lunatics and immediately gotten everyone out of the area, since the powder was unknown. Instead, they just mulled around and let the lunatics act out the rest of their demented scene.
Maybe, if the powder had been white, they would have acted …
The guards’ reactions are crazy, but when looked at with the idea that the powder might have been a chemical attack the guards’ actions are even crazier and more irresponsible.
They also need to replace those worthless “armed security” guards. What if that powder had been Ricin, or Anthax?
Anthrax
Whatever sentence they receive should include no access to or benefit from fossil fuel.
What does the National Archives have to do with the environment? Why aren’t they attacking illegals who are polluting the Rio Grande and leaving hundreds of thousands of pounds of filthy trash along the border? Or homeless people who are sh*tting in the streets of San Francisco?
Shush, child! Pointing out the obvious is considered rude.
you will frustrate yourself trying to apply logic to the actions of the mentally ill
Trying to find rational explanations for the actions of irrational people is a waste of time. These “protesters” aren’t trying to make actual change, they’re doing this because they want to feel like they’re part of the ‘struggle.’ They’re LARPing.
Good, glad to charges filed against them. Stupid should hurt and hopefully these two will receive stiff punishment for their act.
1) Either the prosecution or the judge will reduce those charges to petty offense level either by filing or plea bargain.
2) If so, the penalty will be either a citation or a suspended fine.
3) There is a not inconsiderable possibility that the DOJ will “accidentally” commit a proprietorial error that allows the case to be tossed.
4) In the unlikely event that we have an actual, legitimate presidential election in November and President Trump is returned to office; one of the last acts of whichever Democrat holds the presidency during the transition will be to pardon them and as many enemy activists as they can.
5) Just a personal observation. In my past career as a Peace Officer, I have protected specific things and people. Twice I have saved lives at gunpoint, fortunately not having to shoot. Looking at the picture of the Leftist agents and the Potemkin security [I don’t know if they are commissioned Capitol Police or GSA security guards] I may be able to make out the outline of a pistol holster on the right side of their duty belts and possibly a magazine or cuff pouch. Yet they did nothing. I have to assume, barring further information that they were acting under orders. On that kind of duty, you react immediately without thinking if you are serious.
Subotai Bahadur
“the Potemkin security”
So whose niece was Potemkin?
They will be let go with a slap on the wrist when no one is looking a year from now
Speaking of not looking,…haven’t heard a word of what’s going on with Nichalos Roske even though it’s been almost two years
Hope they get to go to jail for a good bit. But I have to wonder who I has been paid $50k to vacuum up some dust?
Good. Now put them in the DC Gulag in exchange for two patriots.
Why are the cops just standing there? What the heck.