Given that I know two people who fit this exact description, one of whom was facing a 2 year for 'Inciting a Riot' (they organized a Facebook event and received six months suspended sentence, still are in a huge debt hole), the other of whom was facing a 20 year sentence using a bunch of legalese that essentially boils down to 'brought a registered firearm to a protest', mind you they were a street medic and never drew their weapon, but it was on them when they were kettled and the city decided to try to bring all guns to bear on that one. It's still under litigation, and they are likely going to see a 3 or 4 year suspended sentence.
And these are for cities that in 2021 immediately voted to raise their police budgets.
That's terrible to hear. I'm so sorry for your friends.
the other of whom was facing a 20 year sentence using a bunch of legalese that essentially boils down to ‘brought a registered firearm to a protest’, mind you they were a street medic and never drew their weapon, but it was on them when they were kettled and the city decided to try to bring all guns to bear on that one. It’s still under litigation, and they are likely going to see a 3 or 4 year suspended sentence.
Has this case been in the media somewhere?
Also, it shows the complete hypocrisy of the way Rittenhouse ahs been treated.
I'm not really at liberty to talk about it specifically, though it is probably in the St.Paul or Minneapolis record system, but it was basically completely overshadowed by the Derek Chauvin verdict, as that one is occuring in Minneapolis. I tried finding an article that talked about the phenomena in Minneapolis generally (as they're not really the only one, just the only one I know), but there are none I can find, sorry.
But yeah, if more people knew about this kind of stuff the Rittenhouse thing would continue to ring hollow. But different police have different tactics, tendencies and approaches, and Wisconsin police really like to let people open carry more than Minnesota cops, because they figure if you are open carrying you are on their side.
I’m not really at liberty to talk about it specifically (...) . I tried finding an article that talked about the phenomena in Minneapolis generally (as they’re not really the only one, just the only one I know), but there are none I can find, sorry.
No problem at all. Thanks for looking in to it. And I understand not wanting to specifically wanting to talk about it.
Given that I know two people who fit this exact description, one of whom was facing a 2 year for 'Inciting a Riot' (they organized a Facebook event and received six months suspended sentence, still are in a huge debt hole), the other of whom was facing a 20 year sentence using a bunch of legalese that essentially boils down to 'brought a registered firearm to a protest', mind you they were a street medic and never drew their weapon, but it was on them when they were kettled and the city decided to try to bring all guns to bear on that one. It's still under litigation, and they are likely going to see a 3 or 4 year suspended sentence.
And these are for cities that in 2021 immediately voted to raise their police budgets.
I assume it's similar elsewhere, if not worse.
That's terrible to hear. I'm so sorry for your friends.
Has this case been in the media somewhere?
Also, it shows the complete hypocrisy of the way Rittenhouse ahs been treated.
I'm not really at liberty to talk about it specifically, though it is probably in the St.Paul or Minneapolis record system, but it was basically completely overshadowed by the Derek Chauvin verdict, as that one is occuring in Minneapolis. I tried finding an article that talked about the phenomena in Minneapolis generally (as they're not really the only one, just the only one I know), but there are none I can find, sorry.
But yeah, if more people knew about this kind of stuff the Rittenhouse thing would continue to ring hollow. But different police have different tactics, tendencies and approaches, and Wisconsin police really like to let people open carry more than Minnesota cops, because they figure if you are open carrying you are on their side.
No problem at all. Thanks for looking in to it. And I understand not wanting to specifically wanting to talk about it.