SOME FEDERAL CRIMINAL STATUTES WHICH MAY BE VIOLATED DURING RIOT AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

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acme r e ra - riminal to aces nice May Be Vio. ated During Riot and
Domestic Violence.
Rebellion or Insurrection
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion
or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof,
or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or
imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of
holding any office under the United States. Title 18 U.S.C., Section
2383.
Seditious Conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow,
put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or
to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or
by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the
United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the
United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined
not more than $20,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
Title 18 U.S.C., Section 238+.
Mutiny, Riot, Dangerous Instrumentalities Prohibited
Whoever instigates, connives, willfully attempts to cause, assists,
or conspires to cause any mutiny or riot, at any Federal penal or cor-
rectional institution or without the knowledge or consent of the warden
or superintendent, conveys into such institution, or from place to place
therein any tool, device, or substance designed to cut, abrade, or destroy
the materials, or any part thereof, of which any building of such insti-
tution is constructed, or any other substance or thing designed to injure
or destroy any building, or any part thereof, of such institution; or
Whoever conveys into such instigation, or from place to place
therein, any firearm, weapon, explosive, or any lethal or poisonous
gas, or any other substance or thing designed to kill, injure, or disable
any officer, agent, employee, or inmate thereof, or conspires so to do--
Shall be imprisoned not more than ten years. Title 18, U.S.C.,
Section 1792.
Destruction of Motor Vehicles or Motor Vehicle Facilities
Whoever willfully, with intent to endanger the safety of any
person on board or anyone who he believes will board the same, or with
a reckless disregard for the safety of human life, damages, disables,
destroys, tampers with, or places or causes to be placed any explosive
or other destructive substance in, upon, or in proximity to, any motor
vehicle which is used, operated, or employed in interstate or foreign
commerce, or its cargo or material used or intended to be used in
connection with its operation; or
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Support of the o1Jcrntloti ol, motor VeulCScs ellgaj eu in ililei s-.a.t;
fo cign commerce or otherwise makes or causes such property to be
made unworkable, unusable, or hazardous to work or use; or
Whoever, with like intent, willfully disables or incapacitates any
driver or person employed in connection with the operation or main-
tenance of the motor vehicle, or in any way lessens the ability of such
person to perform his duties as such; or
Whoever willfully attempts to do any of the aforesaid acts--
Shall be tined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more
than twenty years, or both. Y itle 18, U. S. C. , Section 33.
Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers or Emlojees
Whoever forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intim-
idates, or interferes with any person designated in Section 1114 of this
title while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official
duties, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more
than three years, or both.
Whoever, in the commission of any such acts uses a deadly
or dangerous weapon, shall be fined not more than $10, 000 or impris-
oned not more than ten years, or both. Title 18, U. S. C. , Section
I11.
Protection of Officers and Employees of the United States
Whoever kills any judge of the United States, any United States
Attorney, any Assistant United States Attorney, or any United States
Marshal or Deputy Marshal or person employed to assist such marshal
or deputy marshal, any officer or employee of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation of the Department of Justice, any post-office inspector,
any officer or employee of the Secret Service or of the Bureau of
Narcotics, any officer or enlisted man of the Coast Guard, any officer
or employee of any United States penal or correctional institution, any
officer, employee or agent of the Customs or of the Internal Revenue
or any person assisting him in the execution of his duties, any
Immigration officer, any officer or employee of the Department of
Agriculture or of the Department of the Interior to enforce any Act of
Congress for the protection, preservation, or restoration of game
and other wild birds and animals, any employee of the Department of
Agriculture designated by the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out
any law or regulation, or to perform any function in connection with
any Federal or State program or any program of Puerto Rico, Guam,
the Virgin Islands of the United States, or the District of Columbia,
for the control or eradication or prevention of the introduction or
dissemination of animal diseases, any officer or employee of the
National Park Service, any officer or employee of, or assigned to
duty in, the field service of the Bureau of Land Management, any
employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of
Agriculture, or any officer or employee of the Indian field service
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property of the United States under the administration anti controi
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, while engaged
in the performance of his official duties, or on account of the per-
formance of his official duties, shall be punished as provided under
Sections 1111 and 1112 of this title. Title 18, U. S. C. , Section 1114.
Conspiracy to Commit Offense or to Defraud United States
yf two or more persons conspire either to commit
any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States,
or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one
or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the
conspiracy, each shalt be fined not more than $i0, 000 or imprisoned
not more than five years, or both.
If, however, the offense, the commission of which is
the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the
punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the maximum
punishment provided for such misdemeanor. Title 16, U. S. C. ,
Section 371.
Consuirac to o Impede or Injure Officer
if two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession
or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat,
any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place
of confidence under the United States, or from discharging, any
duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the
United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer
are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person
or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of
hig office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof,
or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder,
or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of
such persons shall be fined not more than $5, 000 or imprisoned
not more than six years, or both. Title 18, U. S. C. , Section 372.
Prisoners in Custody of Institution or Officer
Whoever escapes or attempts to escape from the custody
of the Attorney General or his authorized representative, or
from any institution in which he is confined by direction of the
Attorney General, or from any custody under or by virtue of any
process issued under the laws of the United States by any count,
judge, or commissioner, or from the custody of an officer or
employee of the United States pursuant to lawful arrest, shall,
if the custody or confinement is by virtue of an arrest on a.
charge of felony, or conviction of any offense, be fined not more
than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; or
if the custody or confinement is for extradition or by virtue of
an arrest or charge of or for a misdemeanor, and prior to
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than one year, or bu?ii. Title 10, U. S. C. , Section 751.
Assaut on Process Server
t Jhoever knowingly and willfully obstructs, resists,
or opposes any officer of the United States, or other person
duly authorized, in serving, or attempting to serve or execute,
any iegai or judicial writ or process of any court of the United
States, or United States Commissioner; or
Whoever assaults, beats, or wounds any officer or
other person duly authorized, knowing him to be such officer,
or other person so duly authorized, in serving or executing any
such writ, rule, order, process, warrant, or other legal or
judicial wrii or process--
Small, except as otherwise provided by law, be fined
not more than $300 or imprisoned not more than one year, or
both. Title 10, U. S. C. , Section 1501.
Influencing or injuring Officer Juror or Witness Generally
Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any
threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence,
intimidate, or impede any witness, in any court of the United
States or before any United States Commissioner or other
committing magistrate, or any grand or petit juror, or*officer
in or of any court of Inc United States, or officer who may be
serving at any examination or other proceeding before any
United States Commissioner or other committing magistrate,
in the discharge of his duly, or injures any party or witness
in his person or property on account of his attending or having
attended such court or examination before such officer, com-
missioner, or other committing magistrate, or on account of
his testifying or having testified to any matter pending
therein, or injures any such grand or petit juror in his person
or property on account of any verdict or indictment assented to
by hits, or on account of his being or having been such juror, or
injures any such officer, commissioner, or other committing
magistrate in his person or property on account of the performance
of his official duties, or corruptly or by threats or force, or by
any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs,
or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the
due administration of justice, shall be fined not more than $5, 000
or imprisoned not more than, five years, or both. Title 18,
U. S. C. , Section 1503.
Obstruction of 'Court Orders
Whoever, by threats or force, willfully prevents, obstructs,
impedes, or interferes with, or willfully attempts to prevent,
obstruct, impede, or interfere with, the due exercise of rights
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irnprisoneo not more than one year, or both.
No inunctive or other civil relief against the conduct
made criminal by this section shall be denied on the ground that
such conduct is a crime. Title ie, U. S. C. , Section 1509.
Coat es )ts Constituting Crimes
Airy person, corporation or association willfully
disobeying any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or
command of any district court of the United States or any court
of the 'District of Columbia, by doing any act or thing therein, or
thereby forbidden, if the act or thing so done be of such character
as to constitute also a criminal offense under any statute of the
United States or under the laws of any state in which the act
was committed, shall be prosecuted for such contempt as pro-
vided in Section 3691 of this title and shall be punished by fine
or imprisonment, or both,
Such fine shall be paid to the United States or to the
complainant or other party injured by the act constituting the
contempt, or may, where more than one is so damaged, be
ciivciec or apportioned among diem as the court may direct,
but in no case shall the fine to be paid to the United States exceed,
in case the accused is a natural person, the sum of $1, 000, nor
shall such imprisonment exceed the term of six months.
This section shall not be construed to relate to contempts
committed in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as
to obstruct the administration of justice, nor to conternpts
committed in disobedience of any lawful writ, process, order,
rule, decree, or command entered in any suit or action brought
or prosecuted in the name of, or on behalf of, the United States,
but the same, and all other cases of contempt not specifically
embraced in this section may be punished in conformity to the
prevailing usages at law. 'i itle 18, U. S. C. , Section 402.
Transportation of Dynamite, Powder and Fuses
(a) A;-.y person w lo knowingly transports, carries, or
conveys within the United States, any dangerous explosives,
such as and incuding, dynamite, blasting caps, detonating
fuses, black powder,' gunpowder, or other like explosive, or
any radioactive materials, or etiologic agents, on or in any
passenger car or passenger vehicle of any description
operated in the transportation of passengers by.any
for-hire carrier engaged in interstate or foreign
commerce, by land, shall be fined not more than
$1, 000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;
and, it the deadh or bodily injury of any person
results from a violation of this section, shall be fined
not more t - $10, 000 or imprisoned not more than
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may be, transported or. or in such car or vehicle
whenever the Interstate Commerce Commission finds
that an emergency requires an expedited movement, in
which case such emergency movements shall be made
subject to such regulations as the Commission may
deem necessary or desirable in the public interest in
each instance: Provided further, That under this
section it shall be lawful to transport on or in any such
car or vehicle, small quantities of explosives,
radioactive materials, etiologic agents, or other
dangerous commodities of the kinds, in such amounts,
and under such conditions as may be determined by the
Interstate Commerce Commission to involve no
appreciable danger to persons or property: And provided
further, That it shall be lawful to transport on or in any
such car or vehicle such fusees, torpedoes, rockets, or
other signal devices as may be essential to promote
safety in the operation of any such car or vehicle on or
in which transported. This section shall not prevent the
transportation of military forces with their accompanying
munitions of war on passenger-equipment cars or vehicles.
No person shall knowingly transport, carry or convey
within the United States liquid nitroglycerin, fulminate
in bulk in dry condition, or other similarly dangerous
explosives, or radioactive materials, or etiologic agents,
on or in any car or vehicle of any description operated
in the transportation of passengers or property by any
carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, by
land, except under such rules and regulations as the i
Commission shall specifically prescribe with respect
t6 the safe transportation of such commodities. The
Commission shall from time to time determine and
prescribe what explosives are "other simila ?ly
dangerous explosives, " and may prescribe the
route or routes over which such explosives, radioactive
materials, or etiologic agents shall be transported.
Any person who violates this provision, or any
regulation prescribed hereunder by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, shall be fined not more than
000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;
and, if the death or bodily injury of any person results
from a violation of this section, shall be fined not more
tpran $10, 000 or imprisoned not more than tern years, or
both.
Explosives; l:. llegal Use or Possession; and, Threats or False Information
Concerning Attempts to Damage or Destroy Real or Personal Property by
Fire or Explosives
(a) A'p used in this section -
"commerce''' means commerce between any State,
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f errttory, ~,ommonwea c 1, oi: r , o p u.
the United States, and any place outside thereof; or
between points within the same State, Territory, or
possession, or the District of Columbia, but through
any place outside thereof; or within any Teritory, or
possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia;
"explosive" means gunpowders, powders used for blasting, ?
all forms of high explosives, blasting materials, fuzes
(other than electric circuit breakers), detonators,
and other detonating agents, smokeless powders, and
any chemical compounds or mechanical mixture that
contains any oxidizing and combustible units, Qr
other ingredients, in such proportions, quantities, or
packing that ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion,
by percussion, or by detonation of the compound or mixture
or any part thereof may cause an explosion.
Whoever transports or aids and abets another in
transporting in interstate or foreign commerce any
explosive, with the knowledge or intent that it will be
used to damage or destroy any building or other real
or personal property for the purpose of interfering with
its use for education, religious, charitable, residential,
business, or civic objectives or of intimidating any person
pursuing such objectives, shall be subject to imprison nent-
for not more than one year, or a fine of not more
than $1, 000, or both; and if personal injury results
shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than
ten years or a fine of not more than $10, 000, or
both; and if death results shall be subject to
imprisonment for any term of years or for life, but
the court may impose the death penalty if the jury so
recommends.
The possession of any explosive in such a manner as to
evince an intent to use, or the use of, such explosive,
to cjamage or destroy any building or other real or
personal property used for educational, religious,
charitable, residential, business, or civic objectives
or to intimidate any person pursuing such objectives,
creittes rebuttable presumptions that the explosive was
transported in interstate or foreign commerce or
caused to be transported in interstate or foreign commerce
by the person so possessing or using it, or by: person
aiding or abetting the person so possessing or`using it:
Provided, however, That no person may be cdnvicte(
under this section unless there is evidence independent
of the presumptions that this section has been violated.
(d) Whoever, through the use of the mail, telephone, telegraph,
orother instrument of commerce, willfully imparts or
conveys, or causes to be imparted or conveyed, any
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e(pncerning "i. itttt=rtrt3. t)f it.1tibt.u itttt:ciyL u, ii.b ..,., , ..r
to b,! mare, to damage or destroy any building or o h ;f
ea: or personal prof erty nor the purpose cpi
xnterferiiig with its use for educational, religious,
charitable. residential, business, or civic objectives,
of cji irttilliiisi tin any person pursuing such objectives,,
shali be subject to inoprisoaniea for not more han
one year or a fine of not more than $i, 000, or both.
(e) This section si:ail not be construed as indicating art
intent Oil the par, of Congress to occupy the field in which
this sectio; operates to the exclusion of a .aw of any
State. Ter: itory, Commonwealth, or possession o;,.* tile
United States. anu no law of any State, Territory,
Commonweaitin, or possession of the United States which
woad be valid in the absence of the section shall be
declared invalid, and no local authorities snail be
deprived of any jurisdiction over any offense over
which they would have jurisdiction in the aosence of
this section. ": i?le lE , U. S. C. , Section t3y7,
Cove, nnment Rrcp pert or CotiMi.cis
Whoever willfuiiy injures or ctornintts any depredation
against any property of the United States, or of any dep.- t?ncrtt o
agency 'thereof, or any property which has been or is being rmmmanufactu eu
or constructed for the Uniteu States, or any department or agency
thereof, sha11, be punished as follows:
the flamat e to such property exceeds the sung of $1t v,
by a iine of not more thaii $ d, Ovv or imprisonment for ilot more
than ten yeari, or both; if the damage to such grope: ty roes
not exceed th sum of $100, by a fine of not more than $115 000 or by
tmprisonmeni: for not more than one year, or both. Title 16,
U. S. C. , Se-etion 1361.
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