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Critics are crying foul over the decision by Washington, D.C. prosecutors to drop nearly all of the charges originally faced by the man who allegedly rammed into White House security barriers earlier this week.
As previously reported, on Monday evening a man in a U-Haul replete with a Nazi flag crashed into a White House barricade. This man was later identified as Sai Var****h Kandula, a nonwhite, noncitizen 19-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri.
Following the altercation, he was arrested and "charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president, vice president or family member, as well as assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, trespassing and destruction of federal property," according to the New York Post.
But then something extraordinary happened prosecutors dropped every single charge, leaving Kandula with nothing but "a single count of depredation of property of the United States in excess of $1,000," the Post notes.