'Local prosecutors who are going to bring charges, if any, against those who were arrested...are aware of what they can and can't invoke,' one expert tells ABC News. 'They didn't need the president's tweets to remind them.'
President Trump said they are “looking at long-term sentences” for people attempting to remove monuments.took to Twitter Tuesday to say that he had"authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran's Memorial Preservation Act."
However in relation to the Veterans' Memorial Preservation Act, federal law enforcement already had this authority and they have for a while. Protestors attempt to pull down the statue of U.S. President Andrew Jackson in the middle of Lafayette Park in front of the White House during racial inequality protests in Washington, D.C., June 22, 2020.Bradley P. Moss, partner at the Washington, D.C., law office of Mark S. Zaid, P.C., told ABC News that federal law enforcement already had that authority and that President Trump's tweet is"redundant and irrelevant because it doesn't change what they can and will do.
Protesters attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House on June 22, 2020, in Washington, DC.If a crime is committed that violates this act, the prosecution would be authorized under the law passed by Congress; the president directs enforcement of that law.
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