PCJF/CPLL Executive Director, Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, spoke with POLITICO about the DOJ’s targeting nonviolent protestors for prosecution:
“There are those in higher levels of law enforcement authority who are celebrating and countenancing and supporting a violent attack on the Capitol, and have no problem with that, and yet wish to bring the entire force of the state to bear on nonviolent protesters,” said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a longtime lawyer for free-speech causes and activists in Washington. “I think people would use it to show the nature of the prosecution, that it’s an ideological prosecution.”
Excerpt from POLITICO. Read full article here.