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[quote=Anonymous]Update: 
The assailant pleaded guilty in court this week:

A 61-year-old Maryland man pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault charges Wednesday for attacking three people as they posted anti-police-brutality fliers this summer along a bicycle trail in Bethesda.

The encounter, captured on video in one of the most affluent areas of the Washington region, exploded across the Internet at a time when Americans were taking to the streets in mass demonstrations after the killing of George Floyd. The suspect, Anthony Bernard Brennan, became an instant symbol of resistance to calls for police reform — a mantle his attorneys have long said was unfairly bestowed.

Brennan entered his plea to three counts of second-degree assault before Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Eric Johnson.

“The victims were basically afraid as the defendant was grabbing them,” prosecutor George Simms said during the hearing. “They didn’t know what more he would do.”

Brennan said little during the hearing other than answering standard yes-or-no questions designed to ensure that defendants want to plead guilty. At one point, he said “how truly sorry” he was over the incident.

Brennan is expected to be sentenced Feb. 2. Cases involving second-degree assault often yield a punishment of probation without jail time in Montgomery County.

Brennan had no previous criminal record, according to his attorney David Moyse. As part of an agreement with prosecutors, Brennan will not seek “probation before judgment,” a type of court resolution that strikes convictions from a defendant’s record.

“He has spent that last six months trying to atone for what he did,” Moyse said after the hearing.

Brennan has been free on $5,000 bond since his June 5 arrest.

On June 1, Brennan set out about noon for a bicycle ride from his home in Kensington, making his way to the Capital Crescent Trail, which has a popular biking stretch from Bethesda to the Georgetown area of Washington.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/bethesda-bike-trail-fliers-guilty-plea/2020/12/16/3d66a4aa-3f1d-11eb-8db8-395dedaaa036_story.html[/quote]

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