Reporter still faces inauguration rioting charges after prosecutors drop most cases

Published January 20, 2018 5:01am ET



Journalist Aaron Cantú is among an increasingly small group of people still facing felony charges for alleged rioting during President Trump’s inauguration, despite prosecutors dropping the cases against most other defendants.

Cantú’s role in a raucous anti-capitalism march that featured window-smashing and a chaotic police chase remains murky, as does the reason prosecutors excused 129 people from prosecution Thursday, but not Cantú, keeping his case active alongside just 58 others.

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