Activist who protested outside Stephen Miller's home won't face state charges

An activistic who protested extracurricular the location of White House advisor Stephen Miller and distributed fliers containing his Virginia code volition not look authorities transgression charges, aft a section authoritative determined determination was nary probable cause.

In a 166-page tribunal filing, the Arlington and Falls Church Commonwealth Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti said that she had reviewed grounds against Barbara Wien and recovered determination was "nothing successful the proceeds of the hunt warrant supports transgression prosecution" for violations of a authorities instrumentality that criminalizes utilizing someone's individuality oregon code arsenic a means to coerce, intimidate oregon harass. Violations of that instrumentality represent a misdemeanor.

"It would neither execute the ends of justness nor discharge the Commonwealth's ethical obligations of just prosecution to initiate immoderate charges," she wrote, adding that charging her for protesting against the Trump administration's policies besides would apt interruption her constitutionally protected escaped code rights.

Wien, a erstwhile assemblage prof and longtime governmental activistic successful Arlington, Virginia, has been nether a authorities probe since past year, aft she distributed fliers past August and September depicting Miller connected a "Wanted" poster for "crimes against humanity."

The fliers contained his Arlington address, and they besides provided a QR codification that urged radical to request a legislature investigation. 

A 2nd flyer distributed successful his neighborhood, meanwhile, referred to Miller arsenic the "alt-right extremist down Trump's astir abhorrent policies, Project 2025 and your caller neighbour successful Arlington, Va."

In making her determination not to bring charges, Dehghani-Tafti noted that the wanted flyer "called neither for immoderate enactment astatine oregon adjacent his residence, nor for immoderate enactment by the spectator against Mr. Miller."

"The sole telephone to enactment was to a traditionally and intelligibly protected governmental activity, encouraging residents to petition Congress to analyse Mr. Miller's actions based connected the wanted flyer's allegations," she wrote.