Posted on 08/14/2017 7:57:52 AM PDT by Kevin C
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Monday that the “evil attack” in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend meets the legal definition of an act of domestic terrorism, an early declaration in an investigation after a car plowed into a crowd of protesters.
“It does meet the definition of domestic terrorism in our statute,” Mr. Sessions said on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” referring to a fatal attack on Saturday when a vehicle drove into a crowd protesting white nationalists, killing one woman and injuring others. A 20-year-old man has been arrested and charged by Virginia authorities with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and failing to stop at the scene of a crash that resulted in a death.
“You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation toward the most serious charges that can be brought because this is unequivocally an unacceptable evil attack,” Mr. Sessions said, adding that terrorism and civil rights investigators were working on the case.
Mr. Sessions appeared on several morning news shows on Monday, condemning the violent demonstrations over the removal of a Confederate monument and defending President Trump’s response.
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Right—and my guess that is what liberal Charlottesville was holding out as a possible line of interpretation—until they confirmed that it was a white supremacist type rather than one of their own.
That actually is not correct. There is a video showing a guy swatting the car with a bat just before he accelerated.
That doesn’t mean that had anything to do with his actions. But I think it will at least be presented as part of a defense.
It would certainly go to any question of premeditation.
Whether an action was or was not premeditated, is a serious question in any homicide case.
BFL
Oh, they'll stick. At least some of them. Enough to put this guy behind bars for a very long time.
Even if he just panicked, or thought he was defending himself, he f-ck-d up big time. Add to that the fact that he was a "White Supremacy" or Nazi sympathizer, and his ass is grass—although I'm unsure how much of that will make it into the courtroom.
I don't know all the facts of this incident, but if I were on the jury...
...then it would be your job to determine those as yet unknown facts; thus, making pronouncements about what you would or wouldn't do as a juror "not knowing the facts" is nonsensical.
What you would or wouldn't do as a juror would hopefully depend on the very facts you established during the course of doing your civil duty.
This is Trump’s “Ferguson.” The left will never let it go. We will be hearing about it for years.
Excellent post.
I watched that video. Please explain to me how that means he deliberately chose to run over people in the crowd.
Because it shows the car going in reverse at high speed?
Yeah ignore the part where he drives right into the crowd.
It should be as simple as pursuing individuals who did damage to other people and to property, without regard to the ideology of those individuals, since ideology should not be criminalized.
Your reply says it all. Thanks.
Explain to me how it is intentional, or not driven by fear of personal bodily harm.
Please explain.
The driver had a history of mental illness so no one knows what angle either .
But to have Sessions
condemning this as domestic terrorism is beyond reckless just downright
Stupid and Cowardice.
Well, no.
I don't need to know all of the facts to understand that he drove his car into a crowd of people gathered in the middle of a freaking street.
I didn't say I'd definitely let the guy off, but based on this one simple fact I believe he already has a huge mitigating factor in his favor.
See my post just above this one.
I’m pretty binary when I use language. It’s why I never say “I could care less.” But I do say, “I couldn’t care less.” I try to stay within the precise definition of words. It is necessary when you spend a lot of time arguing with liberals on the internet. They nail you when you become imprecise in your use of words.
Do you see anyone attacking his car or provoking fear as he drives into the crowd? Beyond the baseball bat to the tail light there is nothing.
Everyone, of every ideology, needs to disavow Nazis and Hitler.
Again, I am sure it would be considered and evaluated as evidence.
But that doesn’t mean his actions weren’t necessarily premeditated. We just don’t know enough at this point.
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