Posted on 09/25/2025 11:45:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
A radical magistrate judge denied the Justice Department’s request to detain a man who tried to take down Marine One with a red laser pointer.
The Justice Department on Monday charged a man for trying to take down Marine One with a red pointer laser on Saturday.
According to a legal complaint filed on Monday, the suspect, Jacob Samuel Winkler, pointed a red laser at Marine One while President Trump was onboard.
“The red laser beam hit Officer Santiago’s eyes and briefly disoriented him. At this time, Marine One flew at a relatively low height and directly above Officer Santiago and [Winkler’s] location. Marine One was close enough that the rotor noise was loud, and the aircraft appeared large overhead. Officer Santiago approached [Winkler] after being flashed in the face with the red laser. Upon approach, [Winkler] looked up, oriented the same red laser pointer at the direction of Marine One and activated the red laser beam,” the legal complaint said.
“From Officer Santiago’s training and experience, Officer Santiago immediately identified [Winkler’s] action as a danger to Marine One and everyone on-board. [Winkler’s] conduct posed a risk of flash blindness and pilot disorientation, especially during low-level flight near other helicopters (U.S. Park Police, U.S. Marine Corps) and the Washington Monument. This placed Marine One at risk of an airborne collision,” the complaint said.
Winkler was immediately put in handcuffs.
According to the complaint, after Winkler was handcuffed, he got on his knees and said, “I should apologize to Donald Trump,” and “I apologize to Donald Trump.”
“The defendant, Jacob Samuel Winkler, did knowingly aim the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, or at the flight path of such an aircraft,” the complaint read.
Winkler was charged with 18 U.S. Code § 39A, a law that prohibits aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.
Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui denied the DOJ’s request to detain Winkler and the case has been assigned to Obama-appointed Beryl Howell.
I didn't read the resto of your post ... the screaming idiocy of that "word" (I use the term loosely) drowned out whatever you might have been trying to say.
People have been arrested for the same thing several times, and it didn’t go well for them.............
Not a problem. Find out when the judge is making his next flight and allow Winkler know so he can use the judges plane for practice.
I have been saying exactly that for years.
Congress, All federal judges and all GS-10 and up.............
Real name is Eli Stoltzfus and barn raising just wasn’t paying the bills
Perhaps it is a big cannon. Or something worn with a tux.
Maybe ... maybe it’s the latest “designer” hallucinogenic drug ...
I'd be OK with the cop shooting the guy for trying to bring down the helicopter of POTUS.
And military Flag Officers.
It wouldn't keep out all the nutters and malefactors ... Biden is a natural born citizen, after all ... but it would cut down on a lot of them.
“He is recognized as the first Muslim judge appointed to the federal bench in Washington, D.C., and has been active in diversity and inclusion efforts, including serving as the Muslim-Arab outreach coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office and on the Advisory Council of the Islamic Scholarship Foundation.”
ISLAM HAS NO PLACE IN THIS NATION. Every one of them must be expelled, born here or not. Attempting to blind a pilot is a major crime. Doing it on Marine One with the president onboard is attempted assassination as far as I would be concerned. BUT NO. A muslim, American hating, pos commie progressive lets the guy walk. Amazing how all the anti-Trump cases end up before these turds.
I would settle just for Congress and the Judges..........
He kicked the case to Howell, who hates Trump with a passion and would not dare prosecute anyone who dared to murder the president or a republican.
If you or I ever did this to any aircraft, we would be in prison indefinitely.............
Cruz is Cuban by blood (Dad).
Cruz is American by blood (Mom).
Cruz is Canadian by soil (birthplace).
It stands to reason that if the natural law is not an ass, then any given individual cannot be said to be a natural-born citizen of anything more than one country.
Does Cruz get to pick which one he likes best at any given time?
For Pete’s sake, he didn’t even get around to shedding his statutory Cuban citizenship until 2013, right around the time Levin was pumping him up as a U.S. NBC.
The guy is a good senator and would be good elsewhere, such as a Supreme Court Justice, but he’s not an NBC, and thus can’t be Prexy.
Explain his appointment during Trump 45.
Blahblahblah ...
That has nothing to do with extending the natural born citizen requirement to offices other than President, nor has it anything to do with suggesting that some authority in the United States actually give a definition of the term. A Constitutional Amendment to that effect would be nice.
Furthermore, making up silly words just makes you look like an idiot.
If you want to ride your “I Hate Cruz” hobby horse ... ride it away from me. I’m not interested.
Have a nice day.
Shine 20 red lasers into this joke Judge’s eyes.
“...define exactly what natural born citizen means.”
You’ve got a lot to say about someone who’s trying to do exactly what you seem to be saying needs to be done.
And who has been advocating the same definition for almost seventeen years. Well before Cuban/American/Canadian Ted Cruz, who should have known better, decided to throw his non-NBC hat in the ring for the 2016 race, supported by Mark Levin, who should also have known better.
What is the definition of U.S. NBC, in your opinion?
“Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui “
Another one. Where do they come from?
I could have pointed this judge out before this ruling.
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