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.
What is the definition of U.S. NBC, in your opinion?
There isn't one. And that's a big problem. If we actually had a definition, we might possibly have avoided some lousy candidates, and one exceptionally lousy president. Alas, it's a meaningless term.
You probably disagree ... and you'll attempt to lecture me on your "magisterial" definition of Natural Born Citizen, based on whatever. And I'll ignore you ... because your definition, no matter how well or badly reasoned, is meaningless. You have no authority to define the term.
Like I said, a Constitutional Amendment, duly ratified by the several States, would be nice. Anything less is just babble and mental masturbation.
Cop? It is a military plane carrying our CIC. IMO, shoot the POS with whatever is available as it is an of war. Hellfire, tomahawk, Gatling gun whatever.
“Judges should have no part in this what so ever”
It is that pesky 14th amendment... We need to get rid of that right?
Yeah, because it was a cop that walked up on him aiming the laser.
Ah so ...
NOT “appointed by” Donald Trump!
“Appointed (by a fellow democrat party liner) magistrate court judge - who had been appointed BY the Obama-Biden-Harris administration - during the previous Trump term! .
“ISLAM HAS NO PLACE IN THIS NATION.”
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When Charlie Kirk said as much, the media regarded him as a Xenophobe.
Yep, me too, exactly.
And the individual States would be wise to adopt that too.
Wish I was in that court... would have been fun lasing the judge on the bench.
It's a shame the signers of the Constitution didn't go farther to make clear a basic qualification for POTUS.
Of course in different company, the same thing could be said about the 2nd Amendment; "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed". About as clear as mud?
In current FR company we probably have nearly 100% agreement about the reason for the 2nd, but can anyone point out to me another occurrence of the word "infringed" in the document?
A Magistrate Judge has little or NO power in events of this nature!
The Supreme Court are empowered to define the term, no amendment required.
They will require a case or controversy but if the parties are there and the dispute is on point, it’s game on.
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