Crime

Anti-ICE protester charged with driving car at cops


A South Burlington woman has been charged following an investigation into her conduct during a March 11 law-enforcement operation and protest on Dorset Street, according to the Vermont State Police.


Police said Connie Anania, 53, of South Burlington, was cited Thursday, May 28, on charges of simple assault, disorderly conduct and grossly negligent operation of a motor vehicle.


According to VSP, the incident occurred at about 7 p.m. March 11 on a closed section of Dorset Street occupied by members of the public and law enforcement.


Investigators allege Anania drove into the closed area and at one point steered toward police and protesters standing in the median, causing state troopers to fear they could be struck by the vehicle.


Police also said their investigation determined Anania was among demonstrators who impeded a law enforcement vehicle attempting to leave the protest area.


Anania is scheduled to appear at 8:30 a.m. July 9 in the Criminal Division of Vermont Superior Court in Burlington.


State police said no additional details were available Thursday.


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  1. Lock her up!!! This is a serious crime, and anti-American Bernie influence is coming to an end.

  2. It is both tragic and criminal what the mainstream media has done to some people. They are the real villains here.

  3. Democrats and their operatives in the mainstream media have laid out a permission structure to encourage and excuse all manner of political violence, including referring to those they support engaged in violent criminal behavior as “protesters, demonstrators and activists”. Once someone has crossed the line from Constitutionally-protected free expression into criminal activity, they should be addressed the same way the media consistently described of anyone who was at the Capitol Building on January 6th, 2021…rioters, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists, coup, mob etc etc…

  4. Recently, in New Jersey, the white liberal protestors, outside the ICE facility, cheered and applauded for two Hispanic men as they exited the facility. One of the guards told the crowd that those two men were ICE agents and that the crowd were a bunch of racists for thinking two Hispanic men were illegals being held.

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