Charges have been dismissed against a longtime Milwaukee pro-life prayer warrior after being arrested and charged with assault.
James Marcou had been providing sidewalk counseling for more than a decade at an abortion clinic when he was filming a clinic escort. The escort lunged at Marcou pushing him against a brick wall, but told police Marcou had assaulted him. (See earlier article) Tom Brejcha of the Thomas More Society explains what happened when the case went before a judge.
"We were a bit taken aback but pleasantly so when the city attorney stood up and said 'Well judge, we're going to dismiss this case,'" Brejcha shares. "One of the other clinic escorts, a well-to-do woman who lives on the fancy east side of Milwaukee, was present with her lawyer, was very upset, even raising her voice to protest."
As it turns out, says the attorney, the key witness did not show up -- perhaps because he had provided police with a false name.
"He'd made his complaint as 'Steven Smith' -- not a vary distinctive alias -- and the city, never hearing the truth, had subpoenaed him as Steven Smith -- and of course there is no Steven Smith, so of course he didn't show because that bit of falsehood would have tainted the rest of his story which was false to begin with," comments the pro-life rep.
But that is not likely the end of the story either, as Brejcha is considering sending demand letters to the abortion clinic and may take further action because the concocted story against Marcou caused him to be falsely arrested.
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