The U.S. has dropped criminal charges against nearly all of the Turkish security officers accused of viciously beating American demonstrators last year in Washington, D.C., as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sat in a car nearby. The attack in May outraged the American public and politicians after the foreign security guards beat up protesters in the nation’s capital. Charges against seven of 15 of the officers charges were quietly dropped Feb. 14, the day before the Tillerson meeting. A U.S. State Department official told The Associated Press on Thursday that the timing of the dropped charges before Tillerson’s meeting was coincidental. He says to attack,” and a mob of security officers then rushes the crowd of demonstrators.

Source: Huffington Post March 23, 2018 00:56 UTC