Judge hands down light sentence to BLM activist who set Minneapolis precinct on fire: ‘He’s a good person’

law enforcement today ^ | 6/10/2021 | Bryce M. Williams

[libh8er]

Appointed by George W Bush.

[Rurudyne]

How about a bad person who acted according to his badness that he set the fire?

IIRC ... with people in the building. Am I recalling that correctly?

[Robert DeLong]

Judge Patrick Joseph Schiltz

Appointed by :George W. Bush

[SamAdams76]

He’s a good person until he sets fire to HIS house.

[Diogenesis]

[jimtorr]

The leader of the attack gets a lighter sentence that his followers? I can’t see it, even if he did express remorse and shame and “has been doing all of the right things”, as the judge put it.

After rioting and helping destroy a police precinct he has been employed in security. Strange, but not unbelievable in todays USA.

[Richard Axtell]

Our son is an arson... ist. I imagine his parents are so proud of such a good person. Don’t leave him at home with a box of matches, without supervision, unless you are well insured.

[Trump20162020]

A “mistake,” what? Shut up.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Main Street]

[TangoLimaSierra]

Look, who among us hasn't tried to burn a few people alive?
I'm sure he's learned his lesson.

[matt04]

I’m sure he in his fellow riders will have the $12 million to pay the city back for repairs, right?

[Ikeon]

Required to pay 12 million? Lol. How is he going to do that?? The victims who sued bernie getz are still waiting on thier milliosn too.

[metmom]

Judge Schiltz described the defendant as a “good person who made a terrible mistake.” While the judge handed down a lighter sentence than prosecutors had requested under state guidelines, he denied Williams’ request for probation, citing that the defendant was a leader, “not a follower,” in the attack on the precinct.

Your personal opinion of someone should not be the basis for sentencing.

Go by the laws he broke and the danger to others lives.

[shanover]

The rule of law and civility is just about finished in this society.

[glimmerman70]

Panty waste judges. But bring in someone who was let in the Capitol building on the 6th and it’s the electric chair.

[hanamizu]

Just by appearance, I don’t think they’re going to get much of the $12 million from him. It will be interesting to judge his sentence and those who walked through the Capitol between the rope lines. Some have done 1/4 of the time before even going on trial.

[Brass Lamp]

Required to pay 12 million? Lol. How is he going to do that??

Seize the bail fund the celebrity class collected. It's what emboldened them to criminal action.

[subterfuge]

Harsher than I’d have guessed.