re: #215 Kilroy01

Antonio French is so guilty…

Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 574
Offenses Against Public Order
Section 574.040
Unlawful assembly.

574.040. 1. A person commits the crime of unlawful assembly if he knowingly assembles with six or more other persons and agrees with such persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this state or of the United States with force or violence.

2. Unlawful assembly is a class B misdemeanor.

Class B Misdemeanors - up to six months in jail fine up to $500.

My money says they’re going to drop the charges tomorrow. There’s basically zero chance of prevailing against him in court, protesting is not a violation of criminal law. This shit happens over and over again, cops make mass arrests at a protest but in the chaos are unable to collect any hard evidence or produce any probable cause to justify those arrests.

Ironically it’s the police resistance to wearing body cams that results in the lack of evidence, and the police brutality that causes the protest in the first place. You can trace everything back to the deliberate lack of accountability.