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After half a year of legal tangling, it seems like prosecutors are going to drop charges against Yusuke Joshua Banno, the college student from Arizona who had been arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer after allegedly setting fire to a big papier mache dragon on Republican National Convention eve. Banno's friend found the Daily News freelance photographer who was shooting the fire; Banno's lawyer says the photographs prove Banno did not light the float on fire (he was on the wrong side), which might make this yet another case of the intense documentation of the RNC helping set the record straight. And charges are being dismissed because a police officer who originally ID'd Banno as the firestarter now says he misidentified him. The NY Times has a feature on Banno's life since the charges, including what his family has been through with putting up money for his legal bills ($30,000 so far) and having "shamed" relatives in Japan. His friends started a Josh Banno Defense Fund to help raise money for his legal fees.
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sorry if i dont feel one shred of sympathy for all the out of town protesters who assaulted our city during the RNC.
sux for them. wrong place wrong time never sounded so good as it does now.
oh, the drama.
yeah, greg, those viscious out-of-towners coming here assaulting your city deserve everything they get. corrupt police testimonials and wrongfully arresting law-abiding citizens sounds great, don't it? just throw away those pesky civil liberties, you're not using them anyway.
Yeah, shame on those out-of-towners for trying to interfere in our local politics.
Oh, wait ...