A jury in Alabama on Wednesday found a woman charged with obstructing authorities guilty. Tia Pugh, 22, faces five years in prison after a conviction for smashing the window of a police vehicle on May 31, 2020, during a riot in downtown Mobile following the death of George Floyd. Pugh and others had broken away from a planned protest route and gathered on an on-ramp to an interstate before refusing to obey orders to disperse. Officers deployed crowd control munitions and clashes broke out. During the chaos, Pugh went to a marked police car that was part of a makeshift barricade that authorities erected and used a bat to break the front passenger-side window. An officer was exiting the vehicle at the time, according to court documents. Pugh was charged with obstructing law enforcement during a civil disorder. Pugh’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment. Gordon Armstrong, …
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