oncology nurse, ph.d. student, say they never engaged in property destruction. and here is what made this entire enterprise so weird. the assistant u.s. attorney who was conceded there is no evidence the defendants caused any of that damage directly. in fact, the most memorable act of destruction, the limo fire was lit on fire after the defendants had been arrested, so they probably weren t the ones that lit that on tirfire. no, instead, the government s theory of the case because they attended the protest peacefully, they were guilty of a crime. the whole government case rested on an idea attending a protest where sole break windows nearby makes you a criminal even if you happen to be standing on the street corner when the cops by come. well, luckily today, sanity and the first amendment prevailed and a jury found all six defendants not guilty on all charges. there are still, however, 166
you can see them there. now, some participants, likely a small handful, engaged in vandalism and property destruction, breaking shop windows and perhaps most memorably setting a limousine on camera. they arrested people around the protest and charged over 200 of them with crimes. in a trial this past month against the first six defendants, trump s department of justice originally attempted to prosecute those first six defendants for felony incitement of riots only to have the judge throw out those charges because, wait for it, the government had no evidence they had incited a riot but the judge still let the government proceed with a variety of misdemeanor charges. all of those defendants, an oncology nurse, ph.d. student, say they never engaged in property destruction. and here is what made this entire enterprise so weird. the assistant u.s. attorney who was conceded there is no evidence the defendants caused any of that damage directly. in fact, the most memorable act of destruction,
thank you. remember the horrific limo fire on the san francisco bridge. that killed a bride to be and five members of her party. now, investigators finally know what actually happened, what caused that fire. we ll tell you next. in the past few weeks zen people were attacked by bears. one was a jogger. i was thinking i m going to die. i m not going to survive this. this bear is going to kill me. her experience, up next. you re watching cnn newsroom. machine [ crashing ] . fight back fast with tums. trusted heartburn relief that goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. tum, tum tum tum tums! nothing works faster. a quarter million tweeters is beare tweeting. and 900 million dollars are changing hands online. that s why hp built a new kind of server. one that s 80% smaller.
shelves. checking other stories we are following. flames shot up 30 feet in the air after a natural gas fire caught on fire in a virginia neighborhood. firefighters evacuated nearby homes and sprayed them with water to keep the flames away. officials say the fire was probably caused by a lightning strike. a california mother is headed to court today on child cruelty charges after allegedly chaining up her 10-year-old son. he was found in the apartment complex court yard. the boy and his two siblings were taken by social services. the u.s. coast guard had had to shoot up the engine of a high speed boat. police seized $35 million worth of south american cocaine. a coast guard helicopter had to chase down and shoot out the boat s engine. police arrested four people. and new information this morning about the decomposed
royals have lots of names. they don t have one or two. they have four or five. i think we are going to see alexan druand elizabeth and also the queen coming here at the moment and diana are going to be there in the name. maybe four or five. that was exciting. people running after the queen there. we ll get back to you. here she comes. i want to see a little bit. i see the people running behind. she is going to wait by the phone for word. thank you so much for joining us. we ll bring you the baby news when the baby is born as soon as we know. taking a look at top stories now. the wife of the driver involved in that deadly limo fire in california says he was arguing with her on the phone at the time. the wife tells the san jose news orville brown had music blaring