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Four Facing Felony Charges for Protest at Military Giant Northrop Grumman

HeadlineDec 30, 2015

And in Nebraska, four people are facing felony charges for a protest at the office of the military contractor Northrop Grumman, the sixth-largest military contractor in the world. Jessica Reznicek, one of the four protesters, says she smashed the windows of Northrop Grumman’s building with a sledgehammer in order to call attention to the billions of dollars of taxpayer money funneled to the military contractor. She spoke to local ABC station from jail.

Jessica Reznicek: “My intention was to be on the property and to do property destruction. I mean, that’s what I wanted to do—I didn’t want to hurt anybody, didn’t want to scare anybody—to bring public awareness to the fact that we really don’t know what our billions of taxpayers’ dollars are really going towards when we’re handing them over to Northrop Grumman. So I’ll sit in jail for as long as I need to, if it gets people talking.”

In 2015, Northrop Grumman received $6.9 billion in government contracts—making it second only to rival military contractor Lockheed Martin, which received $11.7 billion in U.S. government contracts in 2015.

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