United States v. Martin

On May 25, 2023, two climate activists were indicted in federal court in the District of Columbia on counts of injury to National Gallery of Art property and conspiracy to injury property after they allegedly entered the museum and spread paint on the case, base, and floor surrounding Edgar Degas’s “Little Dancer Aged 14.” In a <a href="https://www.declareemergency.org/press/paint-tossed-onto-degass-little-dancer-statue">news release</a>, the group Declare Emergency indicated that the defendants’ actions were part of a “week of action with the goal of getting President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency and halt all fossil fuel extraction/infrastructure on Federal and Indigenous lands.”