{"id":56368,"date":"2015-12-01T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56368"},"modified":"2015-11-30T22:27:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T04:27:45","slug":"charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56368","title":{"rendered":"Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Henco Attorney’s office hit the noon deadline on Monday to charge the suspects in last week’s shooting at the Black Lives Matter rally.<\/p>\n

And the charges are interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Allen Lawrence Scarsella, 23, of Lakeville, was charged with six counts including second-degree riot and second-degree assault<\/a>. Joseph Martin Backman, 27, of Eagan, Nathan Wayne Gustavsson, 22, of Hermantown and Daniel Thomas Macey, 26, of Pine City were each charged with one count of second-degree riot-armed with a dangerous weapon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bear in mind that Macey was one of those rare Asian white supremacists.<\/p>\n

Quite the melting-pot we have, here.<\/p>\n

Anyway – as the media begins the process of trying this case in public, some people are going to be disappointed right out of the gate:<\/p>\n

Freeman said the Minnesota hate crime law only moves a misdemeanor crime to a gross misdemeanor and a gross misdemeanor to a felony. The four men were not charged with that because the sentences for them, especially the suspected shooter, Scarsella, would be significantly longer for the riot and second-degree assault charges. However, Freeman noted he has been consulting with U.S. Attorney Andy Luger about this case and if federal hate crime sentences would draw a longer sentence, he would be willing to turn the case over to them.
\nThere is no doubt, he said, that this attack by the four was racially motivated.
\n\u201cThe defendants’ own statements, their videos, show that these are sick people,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cMaybe I shouldn\u2019t say that, but the language they use, and what they say about fellow Americans, citizens, are just not acceptable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unlike every media outlet in the Metro, I’m not going to attempt to try this case on this page. \u00a0As we discussed the other day<\/a>, there’s at least a chance that this could be tried as self-defense – although as I pointed out at the time, if one plans to try to plead self-defense, it’s best to go to the police, rather than having them come and get you first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Henco Attorney’s office hit the noon deadline on Monday to charge the suspects in last week’s shooting at the Black Lives Matter rally. And the charges are interesting: Allen Lawrence Scarsella, 23, of Lakeville, was charged with six counts including second-degree riot and second-degree assault. Joseph Martin Backman, 27, of Eagan, Nathan Wayne Gustavsson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","category-narrative-for-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56378,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56368\/revisions\/56378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}