Two climate activists who destroyed the National Archives Rotunda in February When they left red powder on the shroud to protect the Constitution of the United States. Their fate has been learned.
Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were sentenced on Feb. 2, 2024, to 24 months and 18 months in prison. Attack on the United States Constitution It is housed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David Geist of the Washington Field Office’s Organized Crime and Cyber Division. Announced on Monday
Zepeda pleaded guilty on Aug. 8 to Section 15 criminal destruction of property for leaving a fine red powder on a display case containing the U.S. Constitution in the rotunda of the Archives building.
Officials said the cost of cleaning up after the stunt, which was intended to draw attention to climate change, exceeded $58,000.
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Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were sentenced in U.S. District Court to 24 months and 18 months in prison, respectively, on February 14, 2024. Attack on the United States Constitution It is located at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. (U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Columbia)
The vandalism also closed the Rotunda for four days. This is to prevent students, visitors, and DC residents from visiting.
Green also pleaded guilty on Aug. 8, on Nov. 13 to a charge of criminal destruction of property for the red powder attack on the U.S. Constitution, and in addition pleaded guilty to a charge of making the National Gallery of Art available. One count of injury on Nov 13, September 14, 2023 Destruction of Black Civil War Soldier Memorial, Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1900).
Zepeda and Green were also ordered to be on supervised release for 24 months and pay $58,600 in restitution each. They were also ordered to perform community service. This must include cleaning the paintings. Both are banned from DC and all museums across the United States.
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Green (left) and Cepeda (right) pose for a photo on February 14, 2024, after leaving red powder on the United States Constitution display case at the National Archives. (U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Columbia)
Green was charged with attacking the Shaw Memorial just 13 days before joining Zepeda in destroying the archives.
According to court documents, Zepeda and Green are members of Declare Emergency, an activist group that claims to raise awareness about climate change by engaging in a variety of criminal offenses. Especially in DC
Zepeda (left) and Green (right) were photographed covered in red powder. Following the attack on the United States Constitution at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. (U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Columbia)
During a Valentine’s Day stunt The group retweeted a photo of the Rotunda, writing: “We don’t want the end of civilization. But that is the path we are on.”
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“Declar Emergency’s nonviolent civil disobedience is an act of love every day, not just on Valentine’s Day,” the group wrote previously.
group issue a statement After the verdict he said he expected the sentence to be “severe”.
“Although there is no evidence of damage, But both Green and Cepeda have been charged with criminal destruction of government property,” the group said in a statement on its website. “Tempera pigments were chosen because they would not cause harm. and without any powder into the box”
