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US woman charged for vandalising World War II Memorial
Melissa L. Farris, 41, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, has been charged with two felony counts for vandalising the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro…
The Story in Brief
Melissa L. Farris, 41, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, has been charged with two felony counts for vandalising the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced the charges Friday, saying Farris faces up to 10 years in prison per count for depredation of US property and destruction of a veterans' memorial.
The memorial's fountain was filled with soap suds and the words "Clean hands Dirty $" were spray-painted in red. A criminal complaint says Farris posted videos on Facebook under the name Melissa Lovewell, admitting to damaging the fountain to push a whistleblower case. The arrest comes weeks after Pirro dropped vandalism charges against a former Olympian over damage to the nearby Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which an investigation attributed to faulty repairs.
The Indian Opinion
Lazy narratives on both sides are already forming: for one camp, this is proof of a coordinated anti-Trump conspiracy targeting national monuments; for the other, it invites sweeping dismissal of all such acts as mere protest. Neither fits the facts. The accused claims in her own videos that she was advancing a whistleblower case, while the memorial fountain was also damaged by a botched repair that the same US attorney initially blamed on vandals. The real test is whether the Justice Department's evidence supports the single-perpetrator theory or if more arrests follow.
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