Jessica Mendoza

Three had their cases dismissed.

And the rest were never charged.

This came up again and again in Hannah's reporting.

The Trump administration goes online and accuses a U.S.

citizen of assault.

But the cases don't hold up.

That's after the break.

When Hannah and her team looked into the case of Sydney Laurie Reed, the D.C.

woman you heard about earlier, they had a rare amount of audio and video footage available.

Reid was held by federal authorities for roughly two days.

She says she wasn't allowed to make a phone call during that time.

Prosecutors ultimately charged Reed with misdemeanor assault of an officer, a lesser offense that doesn't require going through a grand jury.

Reed was acquitted of that misdemeanor charge at trial.

The Wall Street Journal investigation found that in most cases where citizens were accused by the government, the outcome was similar to Reed's story.

181 citizens were accused by the government on X of attacking federal officers, but close to half of them were never even charged at all.

As for the rest?

There were a handful of cases where the government was successful in getting a conviction.

Fifteen people mentioned in government posts pleaded guilty before going to trial.

Ten of those people pleaded guilty for lesser offenses than what the government initially charged them with.

Since Hannah and her team published their investigation, one person has been found guilty at trial of attempted murder of an officer who was assisting federal law enforcement.