Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers’ inaccurate reports, court records show.

“Inaccurate” is a funny way to describe officers breaking the law, violating their oaths, lying to the courts, and attempting to frame these people.

But in reality, they don’t give a shit about convictions. They almost always simply drop the charges against protestors. The point is to make them afraid, get them off the street, and kill their momentum. And this is exactly what their leadership has instructed them to do.