Chalking protesters’ cases headed for dismissal | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY – Cases against two protesters who allegedly chalked Schenectady police headquarters, prompting the Police Department to put temporary fencing around the building’s entrance in April, have been conditionally resolved.
A court clerk said cases against Mikayla Foster, 22, and Kasey Charles, 26, were adjourned in contemplation of dismissal on June 9.
Foster and Charles’ records will be sealed in December if the city residents aren’t arrested in the next six months, the clerk said.
The two had been charged with third-degree criminal tampering, a Class B misdemeanor, in connection with an April 13 protest outside the police station.
Woman charged with breaking glass-paneled door during protest at Schenectady police station last month | The Daily Gazette
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She is accused of breaking the glass panel during the protest April 13.
“On that date, at approximately 11 p.m. several protesters entered the front vestibule at 531 Liberty Street and began kicking the glass doors causing one to break,” police said in a release.
Laing was arraigned and released to return to court later, police said.
The charge against Laing follows charges against at least two others related to chalk defacing of the Schenectady police station during the same protest.
Schenectady PD reacts to vandalism with fencing | The Daily Gazette
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There’s one narrow lane for the public to enter the lobby.
Police Sgt. Matthew Dearing, a department spokesman, on Monday said it was a precautionary step by the Police Department until it can explore other options.
Last Tuesday, in response to the shooting death of a Black man in Minnesota by a police officer there, a protest in Schenectady ended with a broken glass panel on a door at the police station and profanities written in chalk on the building.
Several people gathered last Tuesday evening outside the Schenectady Police Department to protest the death of Daunte Wright, who was shot by a police officer following a traffic stop on April 11.