Posted on 12/21/2020 4:22:30 PM PST by ransomnote
The Justice Department announced today that four men from across the Pacific Northwest were indicted this week for federal hate crimes and making false statements in connection with a Dec. 8, 2018, racially-motivated assault.
Jason DeSimas, 44, of Tacoma, Washington; Jason Stanley, 43, of Boise, Idaho; Randy Smith, 38, of Eugene, Oregon; and Daniel Delbert Dorson, 24, of Corvallis, Oregon, are charged with aiding and abetting one another, as they, among other things, punched and kicked a Black man and made derogatory comments about his actual and perceived race at a bar in Lynnwood, Washington. The indictment also charges the defendants with assaulting two other men who intervened to protect the victim from their attack. Dorson will appear in U.S. District Court in Eugene today.
In addition to the hate crime charges, the indictment charges each defendant, separately, with giving false statements to the FBI during the investigation. Specifically, the indictment alleges DeSimas falsely claimed that neither he nor anyone else used a racial slur during the assault; Stanley falsely asserted that he was not even in the state of Washington on the date of the assault; Smith allegedly lied about how he had bloodied his knuckles; and Dorson falsely claimed that he had not planned to attend a white supremacist’s “Martyr’s Day” observance in the state of Washington and that he had not owned a jacket associated with white supremacy hate groups prior to the weekend of Dec. 8, 2018.
The hate crime charge carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison. The false statements charge carries a maximum penalty of five years.
An indictment is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until each is proven guilty.
This case was investigated by the FBI, with the assistance of the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ye-Ting Woo and Trial Attorney Christine M. Siscaretti of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
thugs come in all races, colors and religions
thugs come in all races, colors and religions
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That’s been my life’s experience. They also come from all political parties and have representatives among both men and women.
Why are the FBI and Justice Dept. getting involved in a common assault? Because racial slurs were involved? The FBI and Justice Dept. probably SPONSOR seminars in which whites are insulted and demonized.
meanwhile, hundreds of anti-fa arrested in Seattle, Olympia and Portland walk free, not charged of squat!
If I’m ever on a jury hearing a “hate crime” case my vote will be “not guilty”.If it’s an assault case,for example,I’ll certainly vote guilty on the assault itself...assuming sufficient evidence has been presented...but as for voting for extra time because the defendant was white and the victim was a member of a “protected” group I say “no thanks”.
“Stanley falsely asserted that he was not even in the state of Washington on the date of the assault”
Stanley did not help his case with that one.
>>the indictment charges each defendant, separately, with giving false statements to the FBI during the investigation.<<
Their big mistake was to give ANY statement to the FBI. It’s harder for the FBI to get you on a perjury trap if you say nothing. The only communications to FBI or police should come from your lawyer.
DON’T TALK TO POLICE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Gee. Had they just burned down a city they would have been ok.
What about Kyle Rittenhouse’s civil rights?
Yep
So that’s what the waste Barr has been up to.
I can not think of a single “hate crime” prosecution of a black playing the “knockout game” and calling a white man “CRACKER” as he lays a beat down.
End hate crime legislation once and for all.
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