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Charlottesville Jury Recommends 419 Years Plus Life For Neo-Nazi Who Killed Protester
NPR ^ | 12/11/2018 | Whittney Evans

Posted on 12/11/2018 3:05:15 PM PST by Trump20162020

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To: Jarhead9297
Are you attempting to justify her murder with your qualifier?

Are you attempting to make us feel sympathy for a land whale with extreme left political views?

61 posted on 12/11/2018 5:07:57 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
More details on that: Fields was driving a Dodge Challenger, which rammed into the back of a Camry driven by one Tadrint Washington and also containing her sister Micah Washington. "In an eerie aspect of Thursday's hearing, the primary video that prosecutor Nina-Alice Antony showed in court was footage recorded from a Virginia State Police helicopter whose two crew members, Lt. H. Jay Cullen and Trooper Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, were monitoring the demonstration. . .The video shows counterprotesters gathered at Fourth and Water streets in downtown Charlottesville. A black pickup truck approaching the crowd pulled to the side of the road. A maroon van then stopped on the street in front of the crowd, and a Toyota Camry stopped behind the van. Fields's Dodge approached the Camry from behind at a moderate speed. It then backed up, traveling more than a block, before accelerating forward at a rapid clip, ramming into the back of the Camry. Heyer and numerous other people were standing near the vehicles, and the collision sent bodies flying." Charge upgraded to first-degree murder for driver accused of ramming Charlottesville crowd "He drove the car into a sedan, which hit a minivan that was in front of it. The impact of the crash pushed the sedan and the minivan into a crowd of pedestrians.": What We Know About James Alex Fields, Driver Charged in Charlottesville Killing The Washingtons testified that Heyer's hair may have been on the trunk of their vehicle: "Five days after the crash, the first lawsuit was filed by Tadrint and Micah Washington, two sisters in their twenties who were in the 2005 Toyota Camry pictured in the Red Pump Kitchen video. The vehicle’s trunk was crushed and the sisters injured by the impact. They sued not only Fields for assault but also rally organizer Jason Kessler, alt-right leader Richard Spencer, and more than a dozen others for civil conspiracy, negligence, and incitement. They seek $3.35 million. In an interview with The New York Times, the plaintiffs indicated that strands of what may be Heather Heyer’s red hair clung to the trunk of the Camry." ‘Summer of Hate’: The Shocking Story of What Really Happened in Charlottesville
62 posted on 12/11/2018 5:11:50 PM PST by Fedora
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To: DiogenesLamp

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No, that is not her.

She was not wearing glasses, and her clothing was light colored. She was also much smaller in the udder region.


63 posted on 12/11/2018 5:14:23 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: DiogenesLamp
. Heather Heyer
64 posted on 12/11/2018 5:14:23 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SantosLHalper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom

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According to the Associated Press, some bloggers and media critics claimed that the story was ignored by the national media because the victims were white while all five of the suspects were black. Most news reports came from local media and online news sites.[47][48] Erroneous early reporting made claims of dismemberment and mutilation of Christian’s body.[49] The District Attorney denied most of the original reports containing misinformation; the source was a federal deputy US Marshal after the suspects’ arrest in Kentucky.[49]

The president of Criminal Justice Journalists, an association of crime, court, and prison writers, editors, and producers, said:

I can’t say that this one would have had any more coverage if five whites had been accused of doing these things to two blacks, absent a blatant racial motive... as bad as this crime is, the apparent absence of any interest group involvement or any other ‘angle’ might also explain the lack of coverage.[50]

Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said that there was no indication the crimes were racially motivated and that the murders and assault “appears to have been a random violent act.”[51] “There is absolutely no proof of a hate crime”, said John Gill, special counsel to Knox County District Atty. Randy Nichols. “We know from our investigation that the people charged in this case were friends with white people, socialized with white people, dated white people. So not only is there no evidence of any racial animus, there’s evidence to the contrary.”


Fake News Media loves its fake narratives

Has the Obamunist who staged this fake hate rally been charged for his coordination of this violent and fatal event?

If you rob a bank and someone is killed in that crime, even if you didn’t pull the trigger, their death is on your hands


65 posted on 12/11/2018 5:34:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: Trump20162020
She is the lady splattered on the windshield of the white car. Severed femoral artery, poor life choices and protesting in traffic is hazardous to your health.


66 posted on 12/11/2018 5:37:16 PM PST by Delta 21
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To: ncalburt
A chain smoking over weight lefty had a heart attack after a gang of lefties cornered this clueless fool in his car . They spin it like he hit her . She was near the car .

She died from severe chest trauma, including a severed aorta artery, as a result of being hit by the car.

Cause of Death

67 posted on 12/11/2018 5:38:33 PM PST by KevinB (If I'm ever arrested, I'm switching parties.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Do you know how sickening you sound? I could give a rat’s ass what her political views are it’s a freaking human life.


68 posted on 12/11/2018 5:48:30 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: DiogenesLamp

Department of Justice/Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Ohio Man Charged with Federal Hate Crimes Related to August 2017 Rally in Charlottesville
James Alex Fields Jr. Indicted on 30 Counts Including Hate Crime Resulting in the Death of Heather Heyer

A federal grand jury sitting in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville today charged an Ohio man with federal hate crimes, including a hate crime act that resulted in the death of Heather Heyer, for his actions during the Aug. 12, 2017 “Unite the Right Rally” in Charlottesville. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen of the Western District of Virginia, and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division Adam S. Lee, made the announcement.

James Alex Fields Jr., 21, of Maumee, Ohio, was charged in an indictment returned earlier today with:

one count of a hate crime act resulting in the death of Heather Heyer (18 U.S.C. § 249);
28 counts of hate crime acts causing bodily injury and involving an attempt to kill (18 U.S.C. § 249); and
one count of racially motivated violent interference with a federally protected activity (18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2)), resulting in the death of Heather Heyer, for driving his car into a crowd of protestors on a downtown street in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“At the Department of Justice, we remain resolute that hateful ideologies will not have the last word and that their adherents will not get away with violent crimes against those they target,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. “Last summer’s violence in Charlottesville cut short a promising young life and shocked the nation. Today’s indictment should send a clear message to every would-be criminal in America that we aggressively prosecute violent crimes of hate that threaten the core principles of our nation. I want to thank the FBI as well as our fabulous prosecutors Stephen Curran, Christopher Kavanaugh, and Rachel Kincaid for their hard work on this case.”

“As this case indicates, our office will aggressively prosecute hate crimes and other civil-rights offenses committed because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any individual or group,” U.S. Attorney Thomas T. Cullen stated. “We are grateful to the FBI and our state and local law-enforcement colleagues who conducted the parallel federal and state investigations in a cooperative fashion, enabling us to vindicate this critical federal interest.”

“Hatred and violence have no place in our communities,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “The investigation of hate crimes is a top priority of the FBI, and we will continue to work with our partners to ensure those who perpetrate such despicable acts are held accountable.”

“The events of Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville are a grim reminder of why the FBI prioritizes its investigations of civil rights violations among the top of its criminal programs. I hope today will also be a reminder to those who are motivated by hate and intent on committing violence; we are going to be there, just as we were in this case,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Adam S. Lee of the Richmond Division, who also oversees the office in Charlottesville. “I want to thank the Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney’s Office for their outstanding partnership, my team of FBI agents and analysts who worked tirelessly to put the case together, and the business owners and residents of Charlottesville who worked with us and provided a massive volume of evidence in this case.”

According to the indictment, on or before Aug. 8, 2017, Fields decided to attend the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Unite the Right rally was scheduled to occur on Aug. 12, 2017, at Emancipation Park and was widely publicized on social media and internet sites associated with white supremacist individuals and groups.

On the morning of Aug. 12, 2017, Fields arrived in and around the vicinity of Emancipation Park in Charlottesville. Multiple groups and individuals, including Fields, engaged in chants promoting or expressing white supremacist and other racist and anti-Semitic views. After an “unlawful assembly” was declared, rally participants, including Fields, dispersed the area. Fields returned to his vehicle and soon after drove to the vicinity of the intersection of Fourth and East Market streets in downtown Charlottesville.

As alleged in the indictment, Fields drove his car onto Fourth Street, a narrow, downhill, one-way street in downtown Charlottesville. At around the same time, a racially and ethnically diverse crowd of individuals was gathered at the bottom of the hill, at the intersection of Fourth and East Water streets. The indictment alleges that Fields slowly proceeded in his vehicle toward the crowd, stopped, and then observed the crowd while idling in his vehicle. Many of the individuals in the crowd were chanting and carrying signs promoting equality and protesting against racial and other forms of discrimination. With no vehicle behind him, Fields slowly reversed his vehicle to the top of the hill near the intersection of Fourth and Market streets. Fields then rapidly accelerated, ran through a stop sign and across a raised pedestrian mall, and drove directly into the crowd, striking numerous individuals, killing Heather Heyer, and injuring many others. Fields’s vehicle stopped only when it struck another vehicle near the intersection of Fourth and Water streets. He then rapidly reversed his vehicle and fled the scene.

The investigation of the case was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen, Assistant United States Attorney Christopher Kavanaugh and Stephen Curran and Rachel Kincaid, trial attorneys with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, are prosecuting the case for the United States.

An indictment is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not evidence of guilt. The defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.


69 posted on 12/11/2018 5:49:17 PM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: dpetty121263

How disgusting. That someone would wish someone dead for simply holding an opposing political view is as vulgar and disgusting as it gets. I truly hope an Antifa protestor doesn’t “accidentally” happen upon a member of your family. If that should so happen you’d be a hypocrite to be angry with him/her because remember it’s “for the cause”


70 posted on 12/11/2018 5:52:04 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: jonascord

Agreed. People will cry all life is sacred. Was Hitler, Stalin and Mao lives so sacred they deserved to cause brutal death? How about Stalin’s second or third or fourth or fifth or sixth ... in command? When does a progressive extremist not deserve our sympathetic comments. Direct or indirect murder? 45 million abortions later - I have little sympathetic feelings for progressive libs. Sorry. My bad and my apologies to those so much more Christian and moral than me.


71 posted on 12/11/2018 5:59:21 PM PST by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens!)
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To: All

The sentence is a ridiculous attempt to signal enormous amounts of virtue, a retrial might easily establish that Fields was trying to escape a dangerous situation and had no specific intention of killing anybody himself.

What we are supposed to learn from this verdict is that the left own the streets and the right must stay away. I can guarantee you that if Antifa protestors ever kill somebody, they will serve months in jail at the most, and every effort will be made to whitewash their actions as “part of the inevitable chaos of street demonstrations.”

As to this guy being a neo-Nazi, maybe so, but unless he was actively planning to kill people at this demonstration, this chain of actions and circumstances adds up to a much smaller sort of crime.

The real crime in any case is that the radical left are given almost free reign to do whatever they want in many American cities, as if they are some extension of law and order when in reality they are dead set opposed to law and order. This is not a new thing. The left could do whatever they wanted in some cities half a century ago too.


72 posted on 12/11/2018 6:27:41 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (I taught AOC everything she knows, and it only took five minutes)
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To: Jarhead9297
Do you know how sickening you sound?

Oh please, not even you give a rat's ass about this ANTIFA porker. I have no sympathy for someone who came to commit violence and succeeded. Despite the propaganda from the media, they were armed with baseball bats and medical equipment. They were caught on film attacking, all in the name of global homo.

73 posted on 12/11/2018 6:38:00 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Nero Germanicus
James Alex Fields, Jr. will also face a second trial on 30 FEDERAL hate crime charges.

Why?

Do they just like spending our money?    thinking face

74 posted on 12/11/2018 6:38:05 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Jarhead9297
I truly hope an Antifa protestor doesn’t “accidentally” happen upon a member of your family. If that should so happen you’d be a hypocrite to be angry with him/her because remember it’s “for the cause”

The fact you're even saying that suggests you view them as capable of committing random acts of violence against our family members. Which then loops back into "why should we show sympathy to the Reds?"

75 posted on 12/11/2018 6:40:19 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

“They” yes some. Her? No she wasn’t and I’m glad her murderer will rot in jail with big bubba


76 posted on 12/11/2018 7:09:09 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: Carry me back
The whole white supremist thing in Charlottsville was obviously a staged fake event. It was not real.

This.

77 posted on 12/11/2018 7:16:45 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Any lover of big government is an enemy of freedom.)
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To: kiryandil

“Do they just like spending our money?”

It will be cheaper to pay for his federal prosecution now, than it will be in the 25th century when he is finished serving his state prison sentence.


78 posted on 12/11/2018 7:24:14 PM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: Jarhead9297
“They” yes some.

Some? Go watch the video of the crash again and count the baseball bats. I think I counted 7 the last time I looked. Either you're so gullible as to take the cherry picked photographs from the MSM seriously, which conveniently show angles of people where the baseball bats aren't obvious, or you're trying desperately to cover yourself and your defense of these rabid animals.

79 posted on 12/11/2018 7:34:48 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Trump20162020

So how are they going to collect the fine?


80 posted on 12/11/2018 7:44:22 PM PST by Theodore R.
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