{"id":66935,"date":"2026-02-21T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/doj-cases-against-protesters-keep-collapsing-as-officers-lies-are-exposed-in-court\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:56:03","slug":"doj-cases-against-protesters-keep-collapsing-as-officers-lies-are-exposed-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/doj-cases-against-protesters-keep-collapsing-as-officers-lies-are-exposed-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers\u2019 lies are exposed in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as \u2018violent perpetrators\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Department of Justice prosecutors across the US have suffered a string of embarrassing defeats in their aggressive pursuit of criminal cases against people accused of \u201cassaulting\u201d and \u201cimpeding\u201d federal officers.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, the federal government has relentlessly prosecuted protesters, government critics, immigrants and others arrested during immigration operations, often accusing them of physically attacking officers or interfering with their duties.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/doj-protesters-federal-agents-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as \u2018violent perpetrators\u2019 Department of Justice prosecutors across the US have suffered a string of embarrassing defeats in their aggressive pursuit of criminal cases against people accused of \u201cassaulting\u201d and \u201cimpeding\u201d federal officers. In recent months, the federal government has relentlessly &#8230; <a title=\"DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers\u2019 lies are exposed in court\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/doj-cases-against-protesters-keep-collapsing-as-officers-lies-are-exposed-in-court\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers\u2019 lies are exposed in court\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}