Remember the demented statue-toppling zeitgeist of 2020? When young people were ripping down pretty much any statue they could get their hands on because a black guy had died at the hands of Minneapolis police or something?

Among the desecrations that year was this incident in San Rafael:

This is a pretty clear-cut case of felony vandalism. But, hey, it's also California. So that's apparently not happening:

The perpetrators were charged with felony vandalism in November 2020. On Thursday, the Marin County District Attorney's Office announced that the felony charges had been reduced to misdemeanors.

District Attorney Lori E. Frugoli reached the resolution "after a thorough case review by prosecutors and a long discussion among church members, community members, legal counsel for the defendants and the defendants' participation in the Restorative Justice Process guided by Rochelle Edwards of the Transformative Justice Institute."

Oh, a "restorative justice process," huh?

Well, the violent creeps who ripped down a statue for no reason other than their own sick, stupid self-gratification had to (a) pay the church, (b) complete 50 hours of community service, (c) write an apology, (d) participate in a community forum, and (e) stay off church property.

That's it. So they each had to chip in probably $400, they had to pick up trash by the side of I-580 for a few days, they had to write a fake apology, go to some woke group therapy session, and then refrain from coming back to a church they were almost certainly never going to go to in the first place.

Well done, California.