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A 20-year-old Maryland girl who was caught on video spray-painting “Gaza” on the Columbus Fountain exterior of Washington, D.C.’s Union Station earlier this summer season has been arrested Friday and is now going through a federal cost, prosecutors say.
Isabella Giordano of Towson is about to make her first courtroom look this afternoon on one rely of willfully injuring or depredating any property of america, in keeping with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Columbia. The incident allegedly occurred as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was visiting the realm.
“Footage obtained from a evaluate of open-source movies posted to X (previously Twitter) confirmed Giordano utilizing pink spray paint to write down ‘Gaza’ on the Columbus Fountain,” the Lawyer’s Workplace stated, referring to an incident on July 24. “She additionally spray-painted the bottom of two of the flagpoles in Columbus Circle.”
Prosecutors say the U.S. Park Police later acquired ideas figuring out Giordano and that she was taken into custody this morning.
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U.S. Park Police stated in a legal grievance that “USPP officers noticed a video posted to ‘X’ (previously Twitter),
which confirmed a feminine with darkish hair, later recognized as Isabella Giordano, spraying pink
spray paint on the Columbus Fountain. Giordano was sporting a pink shirt, blue jean shorts
with a Keffiyeh type headdress tied round her waist, and pink footwear.” (US Park Police)
“In keeping with courtroom paperwork, on July 24, 2024, a company was granted a allow to display within the space of Columbus Circle, situated at Massachusetts Ave. NE, and E St. NE, straight in entrance of Union Station. From roughly 3 p.m. till 5 p.m., demonstrators who had gathered in Columbus Circle pulled down flags affixed to the flagpoles; burned flags and objects; sprayed graffiti on a number of statutes and buildings; and interfered with legislation enforcement’s capacity to position people beneath arrest,” the Lawyer’s Workplace stated.
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This picture from United States Park Police video in an affidavit in assist of an software for an arrest warrant for Isabella Giordano reveals Giordano, circled in yellow, on July 24, 2024, in Washington, spray portray the bottom of a flagpole in Columbus Circle throughout a protest towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handle to Congress. (USPP/AP)
“The flags pulled down from the flag poles, and the statutes and buildings in Columbus Circle, are all property of the federal authorities,” it added. “The Nationwide Park Service estimated that the fee to wash and restore the positioning at about $11,282.23.”
U.S. Park Police say Giordano is seen right here trying towards a digital camera on July 24. (U.S. Park Police)
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Giordano’s case is being investigated by the Park Police’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Unit and the FBI Washington Area Workplace, in keeping with prosecutors.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox Information Digital.
