By Peter Barry Chowka
\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n
Ten weeks after her widely reported arrest, the conservative new media star Millie Weaver and her two fellow defendants have been exonerated, and the mainstream media are ignoring her vindication.<\/p>\n
On Friday, August 14, 2020, Weaver, widely known as\u00a0Millennial Millie<\/a>, a 29-year-old conservative new media video and print journalist with a large following online \u2014 including over 200,000 on Twitter \u2014 was arrested at her home in Ohio.\u00a0\u00a0The arrest stemmed from an indictment issued weeks earlier for multiple felonies relating to an alleged family dispute.\u00a0\u00a0The charges seemed specious at best, but Weaver, her younger brother, and the father of her children, who were also arrested, spent the weekend in jail until all were released on their own recognizance the following Monday.<\/p>\n Alarms were immediately raised among Weaver’s fans and followers, who smelled a rat.\u00a0\u00a0On the day of the arrest, Weaver was about to release a provocative 82-minute documentary on the Deep State titled\u00a0Shadow Gate<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0A colleague of hers uploaded it to YouTube on that same Friday where, before it was banned less than a day later, it had been watched about a million times.\u00a0\u00a0It has since propagated all over the internet\u00a0including here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0(Weaver has since announced a follow-up,\u00a0Shadow Gate 2.0<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Fake News Industrial Complex<\/em>.)<\/p>\n The case against Weaver and her co-defendants proceeded to its scheduled Nov. 3 trial in the Court of Common Pleas in Portage County, Ohio until yesterday, when a hearing was held and all charges against the three were dismissed.\u00a0\u00a0Weaver announced the developments \u2014 how else? \u2014 in a livestreamed video outside the courthouse.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0original video<\/a>\u00a0on Periscope (PSCP dot TV) has been viewed as of this writing eighteen hours later over 91,000 times.\u00a0\u00a0Less than an hour after the video streamed, Weaver\u00a0tweeted the news<\/a>,\u00a0where her video is also embedded.<\/p>\n \nScreenshot of Millie Weaver’s Oct. 21 Periscope live stream video announcing the dismissal of her case.<\/em><\/p>\n In the video, Weaver lamented the fact that she had been “kidnapped and arrested from my home in front of my children.”\u00a0\u00a0She characterized her indictment and arrest as a “miscarriage of justice.”\u00a0\u00a0She also said, “Thank you everyone who stood by me” and acknowledged the contributions to her legal defense fund without which she said she would have been bankrupted.\u00a0\u00a0In the video, Weaver commented, “The financial burden placed on me \u2014 an innocent person \u2014 was insane.”\u00a0\u00a0She implored her followers to report the news because “the mainstream media [her arrest was widely covered] is probably not going to cover the fact that these charges were dropped.”\u00a0\u00a0In fact, almost a day later now, an online search did not reveal any MSM reporting on the charges being dismissed.<\/p>\n Court document<\/a>\u00a0confirming the dismissal of the case against Weaver.<\/em><\/p>\n In the video outside of the court building, Weaver also noted:<\/p>\n What terrifies me is what if it were some other person who didn’t have followers. . . to help generate a legal defense fund so that they could fight back.<\/p>\n Recommended reading from the American Thinker archives are my previous three detailed articles on\u00a0Weaver’s arrest<\/a>, the\u00a0outlines of the case against her and her weekend in jail<\/a>, and\u00a0her release on bail<\/a>.<\/p>\n Peter Barry\u00a0Chowka\u00a0is a veteran journalist who writes about politics, media, popular culture, and health care for American Thinker and other publications.\u00a0\u00a0He also appears in the media, including recently as a\u00a0contributor to\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/em>BBC World News<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0Peter’s website is\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/em>http:\/\/peter.media<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0His YouTube channel\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/em>is here<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0For updates on his work, follow Peter on Twitter at @<\/strong><\/b><\/em>pchowka<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/b>.<\/strong><\/b><\/em><\/p>\n