Climate protesters arrested, indicted after smearing red paint on a National Gallery of Art exhibit

Climate protesters arrested, indicted after smearing red paint on a National Gallery of Art exhibit

THE SIGNAL

A pair of climate protesters were arrested Friday and indicted for conspiracy against the U.S. and a National Gallery of Art exhibit. The duo had smeared red and black paint on the case and base of an Edgar Degas statue.

Protesters Timothy Martin, a 53-year-old North Carolinian, and Joanne Smith, a 53-year-old New Yorker, are associated with the environmentalist protest group Declare Emergency, which calls for an end to oil projects on federal and native land and for the government to declare a state of climate emergency.

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