President Trump once proclaimed, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” The Teamsters Union recently put their own version of the theory to the test, seeing how thuggishly they could behave without being convicted of a crime. And they won.

On Tuesday, a federal jury in Boston acquitted four Teamsters union members of conspiracy and extortion charges, despite their widely publicized harassment of “Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi.