A man has been rushed to hospital after falling from a high window onto the pavement in Greenock.
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said Monday in a statement. The office “has determined that it cannot move forward with misdemeanor charges of unlawful entry,” the statement read, citing the fact that the employees, including Triumph puppeteer Robert Smigel, “were invited by congressional staffers” both times they entered the Longworth Office Building on June 16. Although they “were never asked to leave,” and the U.S.
Capitol Police who arrested them informed they they were supposed to have an escort, the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office decided it was could prove unlawful entry beyond a reasonable doubt.
They are no longer required to appear at a previously scheduled court date on July 20. On June 20, Colbert mocked the conservative outcry over the supposed break-in, saying that if his staff was guilty of anything, it was “first degree puppetry. Hijinks with intent to goof.
Misappropriation of an old Conan [O’Brien] bit.” Colbert himself was not with his staff on June 16 and was therefore not among those who were arrested.He went on to call out people who were equating the arrest to the Jan. 6 insurrection, “Drawing any equivalences between riots storming our capitol to prevent the counting of electoral ballots, and a cigar-smoking talking dog, is a shameful and grotesque insult to the memory of everyone who died. And it obscenely trivializes the service and courage the Capitol police showed on that terrible day.”Here is the complete statement from the U.S.
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