It wasn't the gate; its much, much weirder than that. Memory's a little fuzzy, but as far as I remember, they were involved in a legal capacity in a guns case. This gun was an illegally modified pistol, don't know if it was some kinds mod to approximate automatic fire or what but it was heavily illegal. The modded gun ends up going missing or something at the end of the case, no one really checks up on it. UNTIL it turns up in the hands of the broomstick-haired lady with the business end pointed at the protest procession. Yadda yadda yadda, media blitz and counter-blitz go on, arrests and subpoenas issued, and surprise surprise, the gun is found, in pieces, probably to remove the illegally modified component. That's a big no-no, but the disappeared evidence makes it hard to prove, so they charge them for fucking around with the evidence, which can be pretty bad if it's likely the evidence was of a serious crime.
I would guess that the prosecutor, a black woman every racist chud hates like she's the antifa CFO even though she's pretty much a milquetoast lib (big improvement over before though!!) probably knows all this. Though grand juries are known to be a little wacky sometimes, she probably has good evidence that the above crowd-sourced info is correct, and grand juries are heavily influenced by prosecutor intent. It's fairly hard to get destruction of evidence to stick because it's so circumstantial, so it's probably not going to fizzle out. Governor might even be brave enough to pardon the brandishing charge, but spooked away from literally hiding and modifying a gun charge. I'd guess the ATF is probably only not involved because they're rich, white, politically charged, and the ATF sucks ass lmao.
tl;dr: that pistol the woman had was probably illegal as shit, they broke it open to destroy the evidence, but were caught with it still in pieces, probably thinking that would save their asses
Kinda late, but whatever.
It wasn't the gate; its much, much weirder than that. Memory's a little fuzzy, but as far as I remember, they were involved in a legal capacity in a guns case. This gun was an illegally modified pistol, don't know if it was some kinds mod to approximate automatic fire or what but it was heavily illegal. The modded gun ends up going missing or something at the end of the case, no one really checks up on it. UNTIL it turns up in the hands of the broomstick-haired lady with the business end pointed at the protest procession. Yadda yadda yadda, media blitz and counter-blitz go on, arrests and subpoenas issued, and surprise surprise, the gun is found, in pieces, probably to remove the illegally modified component. That's a big no-no, but the disappeared evidence makes it hard to prove, so they charge them for fucking around with the evidence, which can be pretty bad if it's likely the evidence was of a serious crime.
I would guess that the prosecutor, a black woman every racist chud hates like she's the antifa CFO even though she's pretty much a milquetoast lib (big improvement over before though!!) probably knows all this. Though grand juries are known to be a little wacky sometimes, she probably has good evidence that the above crowd-sourced info is correct, and grand juries are heavily influenced by prosecutor intent. It's fairly hard to get destruction of evidence to stick because it's so circumstantial, so it's probably not going to fizzle out. Governor might even be brave enough to pardon the brandishing charge, but spooked away from literally hiding and modifying a gun charge. I'd guess the ATF is probably only not involved because they're rich, white, politically charged, and the ATF sucks ass lmao.
tl;dr: that pistol the woman had was probably illegal as shit, they broke it open to destroy the evidence, but were caught with it still in pieces, probably thinking that would save their asses