{"id":22702,"date":"2026-07-20T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22702"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:27:09","slug":"u-s-service-members-killed-as-war-expands-and-federal-cases-against-protesters-crumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22702","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Service Members Killed as War Expands, and Federal Cases Against Protesters Crumble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government has charged many ICE protesters with crimes, but many of these prosecutions have fallen apart, indicating that the charges were more about government intimidation than legitimate criminal justice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U.S. Service Members Killed as War Expands, and Federal Cases Against Protesters Crumble\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eqj_E1g09c0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has charged many ICE protesters with crimes, but many of these prosecutions have fallen apart, indicating that the charges were more about government intimidation than legitimate criminal justice. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Eqj_E1g09c0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[423,1104,864,280,431,2108,838,660,221,844,26,493,25,941,942,362,170],"class_list":["post-22702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-criminal-justice","tag-democracy","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-ice","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-protest","tag-protesting","tag-protests","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22703,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22702\/revisions\/22703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}