Of course this happened. No one will suffer any consequences, all but guaranteeing that this will happen again.
From the Detroit Free Press:
Michigan AG Dana Nessel drops all charges against U-M pro-Palestinian protestersMichigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has dropped all charges against seven pro-Palestinian protesters arrested last year on the University of Michigan Diag.The seven were facing misdemeanor charges of trespassing as well as felony charges of resisting and obstructing police. The defendants in the cases were: Oliver Kozler, Samantha Lewis, Henry MacKeen-Shapiro, Michael Mueller, Asad Siddiqui, Avi Tachna-Fram and Rhiannon Willow. All had pleaded not guilty.The group hugged each other, smiled and posed for a photo with their attorneys in the courtroom after learning the news.”I told you, ‘it’s a great day,’ ” Lewis said to the others, when their lawyers entered the courtroom from a meeting in the judge’s chambers.Outside the courthouse before the proceedings began, about 50 demonstrators rallied in front of a sign reading “Drop the charges.” Speakers used an amplifier to address the crowd decrying the war in Gaza as genocide.Inside the courthouse, the decision to drop the charges stunned defense lawyers, who were prepared to offer closing arguments in a preliminary exam that began in February.Last month, Nessel faced calls for her to recuse herself for what critics describe as bias in the case. In a statement issued after the court hearing, Nessel defended herself and her decision to seek the felony charges.“We did so based on the evidence and facts of the case,” the statement said. “I stand by those charges and that determination.”Nessel criticized Ann Arbor District Judge Cedric Simpson for the slow pace of the case, saying there’d been “months and months” of court hearings without a ruling on whether there was enough evidence to send the case to circuit court for trial.
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