Posted on 12/02/2022 11:32:32 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Queens woman charged with driving through a Manhattan Black Lives Matter protest won’t plead guilty in the case — risking jail time to prove she slammed on the gas because she feared for her daughter’s life as an angry mob attacked her car, she said Thursday.
Kathleen Casillo, 52, had been Christmas shopping on Dec. 11 last year when she was caught in shocking video footage driving her black BMW sedan through the protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions in Midtown.
The video shows Casillo stopped at East 39th Street and Third Avenue with protesters in front of her car — seconds before she floors it, with people screaming and rushing to help those left crumpled on the ground.
Casillo — who was in the car with her 29-year-old daughter – told The Daily Mail protesters attacked her car and were ready to break her passenger side window and drag her daughter out of it.
“I feel sick,” Casillo told The Daily Mail. “I never intended on hurting anyone. I just feared for my daughter’s life more than anybody. I thought they were going to pull her out of the car.”
On Wednesday, she appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court for a hearing, where prosecutors said a guilty plea on two misdemeanors would likely have resulted in just six days’ community service and a year’s suspension of her license.
But Casillo is refusing to cop to charges of reckless assault and reckless endangerment.
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The government is once again the enemy.
“where prosecutors said a guilty plea on two misdemeanors would likely have resulted in just six days’ community service and a year’s suspension of her license.”
A plea means she gets her driver’s license suspended for one year. I hope she beats the ghoulish NYC court system
Thanks...great account!
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If she submitted she and her daughter would be dead and that’s just fine for these scumbags who protect the criminals
We need to resurrect the 1850s underground railroad to save people from the black klan in New York.
People playing in the street tend to get run over from time to time.
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She probably doesn’t want to visit there.
You wouldn’t get confused when screams came from under your car and you backed up to see where the noise was coming from?
Storch said he and his client had to be escorted into court Wednesday because of another “angry mob” outside — including some holding signs saying, “Kathleen Casillo is Kyle Rittenhouse.”“I don’t think any rational person could make that leap,” he said of comparisons to the teen gunman who was recently acquitted over the deadly shooting at BLM protests last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin. “There’s no way that she said, ‘I’m going to go to Manhattan and engage in human bowling,’ to look for Black Lives Matter protesters,” he said
Well, he's right about one thing: She's nothing like Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse carried a first aid kit and helped injured protesters. He ran away from the people trying to attack him.
He only shot the people who caught up, cornered, and grabbed for his gun, physically attacked him, or tried to shoot him.
This woman ran over some people who weren't even near her car. (She probably panicked...)
“He who would kill you would first lie to you’’.
LOVE the picture Samalmnder!
Samalmnder?? LOL!
It’s a bit early for cannonballs don’t ya think?
LOL
I just might change my name.
;D
/used to get actual snail mail addressed to Sal A Mander and several phone calls from people looking for same
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