The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office has agreed to drop the criminal case against a journalist who was arrested after documenting pro-Palestinian protesters splattering red paint on the homes of Brooklyn Museum officials last year.
Videographer Samuel Seligson was granted an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal Wednesday — meaning the charges against him will be dismissed if he stays out of criminal trouble for six months — after he was arrested for being present at a June 12 protest where six dissenters splashed crimson paint outside a Brooklyn Heights building where Brooklyn Museum Executive Director Anne Pasternak lives. The protesters also targeted the homes of two other museum officials, prosecutors had alleged.
Seligson and his attorneys maintained he committed no crim

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