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Man sentenced to 19 years for throwing boy from Mall of America balcony
UPI ^ | 6/03/19 | Daniel Uria

Posted on 06/03/2019 4:31:47 PM PDT by blueyon

A man who threw a 5-year-old boy from a third-floor balcony in Minnesota's Mall of America was sentenced to nearly two decades in prison on Monday.

Judge Jeannice Reding sentenced Emmanuel Aranda, 24, to 19 years in prison, the maximum amount agreed upon in his plea deal after he pleaded guilty to throwing the young boy, Landen, from the mall's balcony.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: abdisaid; abdisaidmohammed; aranda; emmanuelaranda; ilhanomar; islam; jeannicereding; mallofamerica; michigan; minnesota; mohammed; muslim; muslims; rashidatlaib; rop; somali; somalimuslim
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To: blueyon

21 posted on 06/03/2019 4:59:31 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: blueyon

22 posted on 06/03/2019 5:02:19 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: All

If I were the boys’ father, I’d wait to he gets out in about 10 years for good behavior and put a bullet in his head fro about 400 yards.


23 posted on 06/03/2019 5:09:56 PM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: ETL

Looks like a racially motivated hate crime to me.


24 posted on 06/03/2019 5:10:14 PM PDT by ssaftler (The opinions expressed here have not been peer reviewed, fact checked or focus group tested.)
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From April 2019...

A 5-year-old boy who was seriously injured when he was thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America near Minneapolis remains hospitalized. ...”

Potts said investigators don’t believe Aranda knew the boy’s family and do not have a motive.

A witness, Brian Johnson, told WCCO-TV on Friday that he heard a woman scream that her child had been thrown from the balcony.

He said she was screaming, “Everybody pray, everybody pray.

Oh my God, my baby, someone threw him over the edge.”

Court records show that Aranda has a history of convictions for misdemeanor offense.

He was charged in two previous incidents at the mall in 2015.

Potts said some of those cases were handled through mental health court, but he didn’t elaborate.

At one point, Aranda had a trespass notice banning him from the mall, but it was no longer in effect, Potts said. ...”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-mall-of-america-balcony-20190413-story.html


25 posted on 06/03/2019 5:12:15 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: LouAvul
Here’s hoping he meets Justice in prison.

Prisons are full of black guys who aren't going to care in the slightest that he tried to murder a random white boy.

26 posted on 06/03/2019 5:12:38 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: ssaftler

I’d do it from 4 yards.


27 posted on 06/03/2019 5:13:18 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: blueyon

I recommend the first three seconds be spent going through the hell he put Landen through.


28 posted on 06/03/2019 5:15:03 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ssaftler
Incredible the little guy survived. Hadn't realized it was from a 3rd-floor balcony!

A 5-year-old boy who was seriously injured when he was thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America


29 posted on 06/03/2019 5:19:20 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Survived attempted murder is more like it


30 posted on 06/03/2019 5:26:01 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: blueyon

Personally, being an “Old Testament” sort of guy, I think somebody should have tossed ARANDA off the same balcony & see if he can fly.

Yours, TMN78247


31 posted on 06/03/2019 5:29:42 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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“Court records show Aranda was arrested on July 4, 2015, after police said he matched the description of a man throwing things off the upper level of the Mall of America to the lower level.

Police say Aranda refused to give his name and resisted arrest.

Aranda also was accused of walking into a mall store and sweeping his hand across a display table, breaking glasses.

In October 2015, Aranda was accused of throwing glasses in Twin Cities Grill in the mall.

The complaint says Aranda approached a woman who was waiting for the restaurant to open and asked her to buy him something.

The woman refused, and Aranda allegedly threw a glass of water in her face and a glass of tea that struck her leg.

Aranda was under a trespass notice at the time banning him from the mall until July 4, 2016.”

https://apnews.com/74d2e80387b64845962ab31b148ab9a0


32 posted on 06/03/2019 5:30:35 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: rbmillerjr

Look, no one would ever defend this mans despicable actions. But calling for vigilantism by recommending that the father resort to a vengeance murder or hoping that other prisoners would murder him is disgusting.


33 posted on 06/03/2019 5:33:23 PM PDT by grumpygresh (I)
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To: LouAvul
Exactly.

Why plea it down to a lighter sentence?

Oh yeah, to save the taxpayer money./sarc

34 posted on 06/03/2019 5:36:14 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Drew68

“Prisons are full of black guys who aren’t going to care in the slightest that he tried to murder a random white boy.”

Lotsa white guys there, too, who WILL care.


35 posted on 06/03/2019 5:36:32 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: blueyon

I hope someone throws this guy off a cellblock balcony.


36 posted on 06/03/2019 5:38:12 PM PDT by Crucial
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From April 2019...

Bloomington Police Chief Jeffrey Potts said Sunday that the boy is “still alive and receiving care,” and that the family wants privacy. Children’s Hospital Minneapolis had no information to release.

Potts said during a news conference that the boy fell nearly 40 feet after a man who apparently didn’t know the boy or his family threw him off the balcony Friday. Authorities haven’t released the boy’s name.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-mall-of-america-balcony-20190413-story.html

37 posted on 06/03/2019 5:38:27 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: AmericanCheeseFood

Here we are, our last hope for justice is that the dregs of society will rise up and commit vigilantism.


38 posted on 06/03/2019 5:45:31 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: blueyon

It seems as far as his sentencing his mental capacity was taken into consideration. So what if he’s not playing with a full deck? Judging by his record, if Floyd Mayweather, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, Conner McGregor,etc were standing at the same exact spot at the same exact time instead of that child he would’ve had the wherewithal not to start sh!t with those guys. That POS knew damn well what he was doing.


39 posted on 06/03/2019 5:52:40 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: cmj328
Here we are, our last hope for justice is that the dregs of society will rise up and commit vigilantism.

As my wife likes to say, even ax murderers have children.

40 posted on 06/03/2019 5:56:11 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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