Posted on 09/29/2022 8:33:05 AM PDT by gitmo
A liberal man who admitted shooting a pro-life grandma who was merely canvassing against a radical pro-abortion ballot measure in Michigan still doesn’t face any criminal charges. More than a week has elapsed since Richard Harvey shot the unnamed pro-life advocate in the back on September 20th.
Harvey has admitted to shooting an elderly pro-life woman who was canvassing homes to campaign against Proposal 3, which would legalize abortions up to birth in the state. Meanwhile, his wife is a radical leftist and abortion activist who regularly threatens conservatives in social media posts.
During a recent local TV interview, Harvey admits shooting the pro-life woman, who was peacefully canvassing door to door against the ballot measure. He claims he accidentally shot her — even though she was shot in the back — using a rifle to try to knock away a clipboard she was carrying.
Harvey acknowledged he could face charges.
“It’s always possible,” he said. “I shot somebody. It was an accident.”
Yet 9 days later Harvey still hasn’t been charged. Michigan State Police are investigating the shooting and Ionia County Prosecutor Kyle Butler told News 8 Monday that he’s waiting for police reports before deciding on whether to file charges.
Conservative news outlet Daily Wire is not happy that charges are taking so long.
“A man who has admitted to shooting a pro-life canvasser earlier this month is still not facing charges and remains under investigation. But Harvey remains in the clear as of Wednesday,” it said.
“The story is gaining attention in light of the Department of Justice‘s targeting of a pro-life activist and Catholic father of seven Mark Houck, who was arrested at his home in Pennsylvania on Friday by armed FBI argents over an alleged simple assault outside a Planned Parenthood clinic,” it added. “The DOJ has also been sleeping on the dozens of attacks against pro-life pregnancy centers and churches by abortion extremists following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.”
Anna Visser, Right to Life of Michigan Communications Director, condemned the shooting.
“No one should fear violence while peacefully exercising their constitutionally protected right to free speech. This 84-year old woman is hardly imposing, standing about 5-feet tall. The idea that shooting this woman is at all excusable is a dangerous claim for Americans across the country who engage in peaceful door-to-door canvassing,” she said.
Visser points out that while Harvey publicly claims the shooting was an “accident,” “Sharon Harvey’s public social media posts raise questions about the motive.”
“Mrs. Harvey’s Facebook page reveals very strong opinions on abortion, the issue the volunteer was canvassing about, and vitriol for prolifers and anyone who disagrees with her. Her extensive history of demonstrated hatred for people who disagree with her draws her account into question,” she said.
Right to Life of Michigan adds:
Why was a gun pulled on an short, 84-year-old lady?The 84-year-old victim of the shooting said the shot dazed her, she got in her car and drove to the police, fearing she would be shot again by Mr. Harvey. She has received medical care and reportedly is recovering well so far.A look through Sharon Harvey’s public posts on her Facebook page is a sad tour of vitriolic rhetoric being repeated day, after day, after day, for years on end. This is a person who believes—like President Biden and Governor Gretchen Whitmer—that people like the victim who see things differently on abortion or other issues are a grave threat to the republic, who if not confronted and stopped will be shipping people off to concentration camps, will forever end democracy, and let women die left and right because of ectopic pregnancies. She believes people like the victim are basically the Taliban.
What could have stayed a heated political discussion that ended peacefully and was totally forgotten years down the road by these ladies instead culminated with pulling a gun on a small, elderly woman and shooting her. This recklessly irresponsible rhetoric must end, and it must end now before more people are harmed.
The campaign of violence and threats against prolife pregnancy centers has come to Michigan and affected our own organization. Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been silent about these terrorist activities, except to continue to repeat “fight like hell” to her followers over and over and over. Governor Whitmer has so far been silent about the shooting and attacks on pregnancy centers.
If Governor Whitmer cannot condemn this ongoing campaign of violence or the climate of violent rhetoric she contributes to daily, she should resign in shame as the leader of our state.
Enough is enough.
Nor will he be.
Watch this go down the memory hole within hours, or days at the most.
Nothing to see here, move along.
“It was an accident.”
I’ll have to remember that one.
Was the lady canvassing on the "Rust" set?
Here we are nine days after it happened and nobody has heard of the incident. It appears to have gone down the memory hole from Day One.
The current administration loves abortion so much it has turned federal agents into the SS and at the same time is ALLOWING pro-abortionists to kill pro-lifers.
And biden calls himself Catholic. And the pope loves biden.
SPJNK.
Again, just like alec baldwin, democrat party government protects its paramilitary soldiers.
“Nor will he be.”
And that’s where we are in this rapid decline into communism.
you could not pay me to go door-to-door these days.
C’mon, man. It was an accident. I accidentally shot her in the back as she was leaving my property.
Lefties are down right satanic.
Come on man would be asking to be put in jail if that was my grandmother he shot.
The reason it's taking so long to charge him is that the effstapo is trying to retroactively hire the guy.
Their kind of muscle.
“She (the volunteer) is still ranting and raving and she’s got this clipboard. She’s waving it around. I’m thinking she’s going to smack Sharon with it. So without thinking, I went to club it away with the rifle and my finger was still in the trigger guard. It went off and hit her about in here,” he said, pointing to his right shoulder.
‘I am thinking she is going to smack Sharon with the clipboard, I went to club the clipboard away with the rifle and it went off’
That means the old lady was facing them.
What a liar. He shot her in the back.
He claims he accidentally shot her — even though she was shot in the back — using a rifle to try to knock away a clipboard she was carrying.
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As long as he wasn’t doing something violent like “parading”.
They can determine how far away she was when shot in the back. This is straight up murder.
“This recklessly irresponsible rhetoric must end, and it must end now before more people are harmed.”
It won’t end until the conflict is settled with one faction being relegated permanently to the dustbin of history. That’s what happens when civilizations fracture over an issue on which neither side can reach a compromise. The sooner we realize that is where we are as a society, then the sooner we can settle things and move forward.
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