Remember when the alt-right guys were prosecuted for their khakis-and-polo-shirts, escape-by-blending-into-a-crowd uniforms that demonstrated malice aforethought?
No, me neither.
Fuck it. Color coordinate all future protests.
Prosecutors pointed to the guns, ballistic vests, and trauma first-aid kits they brought as evidence of malicious intent.
Wait a minute. This has very distinct Kyle Rittenhouse vibes.
Prosecutors pointed to the guns, ballistic vests, and trauma first-aid kits they brought as evidence of malicious intent.
Didn’t police also bring those things … ?
Doesn’t matter. They could be in a tank and youll be arrested for being near a bicycle.
What a fucking orwellian dystopia.
Man this country needs to get serous about juries because it seems that there’s no point to them.
Also what the fuck is “concealing a document” and how the fuck is it a crime.
Additionally, how is it not double-jeopardy to convict someone of
- Firing a firearm
- Firing a firearm while firing a firearm
This is at least 2.5 of jeopardy
They used to say “you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sanwich.” then that guy threw a ham sandwich at that ICE agent. Then the grand jury refused to indict him twice.
I think it’s supposed to be for like deleting logs or financial records when a search is imminent. But in that case it’s based on the stuff you’re concealing containing evidence of a crime. Some zines aren’t that.
A police officer responding to the scene was shot in the neck by one of the protesters, Benjamin Song, who had brought an AR-15 with a trigger modified for a higher rate of fire.
The defendants said the protest was a peaceful demonstration meant to show solidarity, pointing to the megaphone that one member of the group brought to shout slogans to detainees. Prosecutors pointed to the guns, ballistic vests, and trauma first-aid kits they brought as evidence of malicious intent.
It had little to do with the colour of their clothes and I highly doubt that was something the jury took into deliberation.
In a significant victory for the government, jurors convicted eight defendants on material support for terrorism charges for wearing black clothes to the late-night demonstration. That use of “black bloc” clothing was an antifa tactic that assisted in the shooting of the officer, prosecutors said during their closing arguments.
It had everything to do with the color of their clothes. Did you even read the article?
“Material support. It sounds — I don’t know — nefarious. Complicated. It’s actually very simple,” Smith said.
He said that wearing black clothes at the noise demonstration would be enough to convict the eight defendants accused of material support.
Is this the one where the judge declared a mistrial on some made up pretext because the first jury pool was too sympathetic to the defendants?
The Constitution is TERRORISM (UNLESS you’re Using it to Shoot up a Bunch of Children!)!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
Fucking hell! This is some bullshit.
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