Another One Of President Opie's Boys.
Posted on 02/18/2015 6:25:00 AM PST by MNDude
A courtroom brawl aborted Tuesday's sentencing of the West Philadelphia man who had just been found guilty of felony murder in the 2013 robbery of a special-needs man for his brand-new Beats by Dre headphones.
The chaos erupted when Arkel Garcia, 21, stood to be sentenced to a mandatory life sentence for the Nov. 30, 2013, shooting death of Christian Massey.
Garcia stood up suddenly and the heavy wooden courtroom chair he had been using tipped over behind him, next to Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Robert Castelli.
When Castelli righted the chair and pushed it close behind Garcia, the convicted man swore at Castelli and spun around. Castelli grabbed Garcia, who resisted, resulting in a scrum involving at least a half-dozen deputies and police officers. When it ended, Garcia was hauled from the courtroom, and his family was crying and screaming that he had been beaten.
After all this, Common Pleas Court Judge Steven R. Geroff decided to postpone sentencing until March 5.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Too bad. What goes around comes around.
He started it. He had it coming if he was.
Where was their outrage about the man HE murdered?
And his victim was unavailable for comment...................
Another One Of President Opie's Boys.
Another animal too good for a life sentence.
I love a good courtroom ‘scrum!’
Both the victim and the murderer were black so -
#blacklivesdontmatter.
had to look up the word scrum.
Were the scrum cops white? There might be looting and arson in West Philadelphia tonight. Better call out the National Guard.
He can thank his lucky stars he’s not in Syria, where he would simply be caged and burned alive.
Fear not OSAS...he has nothing to be ashamed of, all is forgiven......I guess...
Couldn’t help yourself, eh?
Why are you hijacking the thread?
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