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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Jeanine Pirro fails again: DC jury finds protester not guilty of assaulting FBI agent in case she can’t stop losing on

Donald Trump’s top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., was dealt another blow after a jury acquitted a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent during a protest against immigration officials.

Federal prosecutors in the office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro failed to persuade three different grand juries to indict Sydney Reid on felony charges this summer. They could not get a jury to agree to any of the charges against her until reducing the case to a single, lesser misdemeanor charge.

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