Comment by brightball

I think that counts as assault and the individual should have been charged and that's exactly the point about the precedent.

Compare it to the situation in Minnesota. Protester bites of the finger of an agent. Is that protesting? Groups of people follow agents around blowing whistles while they're trying to do their job. Can protesters show up at an someone else's workplace and start blowing whistles at everyone? Diners? Medical offices?

https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/officer-will-lose-fin...

Now a situation has been created where everyone involved in those Signal chats could be...charged with conspiracy. The door is opened for that argument to be made and until the charge was thrown onto those women after the abortion protest, nothing like that had been done before.

FACE Act and Assault charges, plus damages were absolutely warranted. Conspiracy charges were political punishment.