Posted on 04/19/2018 5:10:01 AM PDT by simpson96
A woman accused of hitting a state police horse with a flagpole during a counter-protest to a March Against Sharia rally in Harrisburg last June won't go to prison for the attack.
Instead, Dauphin County President Judge Richard A. Lewis sentenced Lisa Simon, 24, to 2 years of probation after the Philadelphia woman pleaded guilty in the case Tuesday.
Lewis also slapped Simon with $1,000 in fines and ordered her to perform 300 hours of community service.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Sprow said mounted troopers intervened when the 30 or so counter-protesters rushed out of their designated area in the 1200 block of North Sixth Street.
As the troopers and horses waded through the crowd, Simon struck one of the horses with the pole, which had a nail protruding from the tip, Sprow said. He said the horse and its rider, Trooper Wes VanWyk, weren't injured. Simon had to be wrestled to the ground and arrested.
Simon pleaded guilty to charges of possessing an offensive weapon, obstruction of law, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct after Sprow agreed to withdraw more serious counts of aggravated assault and taunting a police animal. VanWyk agreed with that deal, Sprow said.
Defense attorney Mary Welch told Lewis "the charges are not who (Simon) is."
Simon is actually a kind and caring person, not the screaming, angry woman depicted in a PennLive photograph taken during her arrest, Welch said.
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This scum should be in prison.
That is a brain washed idiot.
Simon is nuts.
When I was riding if someone tried to injure my horse jail would have been the least of their worries..... argue with 3000 pounds of angry horse and rider you will lose
Judge Richard A. Lewis (pictured above) should be charged and convicted and imprisoned for aiding & abetting after the crime.
When filled with burning self-righteousness, a person is capable of any action.
Yup... That would have been my guess upon seeing her picture.
I disagree. The charges are precisely who Simon is.
Bitch. So why is this heeshee against anti-Sharia protesters?
Because Islam is pro-woman?
“depicted” - does this mean she is usually blue in color, but was not for this incident?
Hoo Boy. She looks like real live wire to be around. The level of vitriol and hate in those eyes is epic.
Oh, I get it. A little bit of blue humor.
I wonder if peta feels the same way...
What the heck is that?
“Judge Richard A. Lewis (pictured above) should be charged and convicted and imprisoned for aiding & abetting after the crime.”
The judge’s chamber needs an entire horse for a change.
What were you riding, a Clydesdale?
Many corrupt leftist judges in this country were confirmed by corrupt leftist Demonicrat or RINOcrat legislatures.
Assault a police dog and the charge is the same as if you assaulted a policeman. I guess this judge thinks a horse doesn’t rate that.
No excuse for this Lunatic Lefty to not do some time.
Dang near. My favorite horse was over 16 hands and a big boy
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