Daily News | Prominent West Philly activist pleads guilty to flipping police car during 2020 racial justice protests
, which named him one of the city’s most influential residents.
Though McSwain stressed he drew distinctions between the thousands who protested Floyd’s death peacefully and those involved in property destruction, Hetznecker and members of the Philadelphia activist community accused the government of using the stiff sentence that comes with the arson charge to intimidate and to quell constitutionally protected rights to protest.
But the portions of Smith’s plea agreement that outline the exact conduct to which he admitted Tuesday make no mention of his directly setting any fire — despite the arson charge he initially faced. “We have a right to peacefully assemble and protest,” the judge. “But the right to … destroy property, we don’t have that right.”
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