Religious/Extremist Terrorism: Non-Muslim edition

[mariomike]

The latest on this ...

* - link to Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals August decision (PDF)

Update today on the financial settlement.

Justice Department announces $88 million settlement in 2015 Charleston church shooting​

Justice Department announces $88 million settlement in 2015 Charleston church shooting

A botched FBI background check enabled Dylann Roof to buy the gun he used to kill nine people and injure three.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[The Bread Guy]

Busted ...

A New Jersey man was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for his role in conspiring with members of a white supremacist hate group to threaten and intimidate African-Americans and Jewish Americans by vandalizing minority-owned properties throughout the country in September 2019.

Richard Tobin, 20, of Brooklawn, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler to an information charging him with conspiracy against rights. Judge Kugler imposed the sentence today in Camden federal court.

“The defendant conspired with a white supremacist hate group to vandalize and destroy property owned by Jewish and Black Americans, intending to instill fear into those communities across the country,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This sentence makes clear that targeting persons owning and using property simply based on their race or religion will not be tolerated. The Department of Justice will continue to prosecute civil rights conspiracies and vindicate the rights of victims of bias motivated crimes.”

“Richard Tobin encouraged hateful acts of violence against individuals and their houses of worship, based on their religion or the color of their skin,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig of the District of New Jersey. “Justice demanded that he be held accountable for these racist and anti-Semitic actions, and we are proud to have joined with our colleagues in the Civil Rights Division and the Joint Terrorism Task Force in doing so in this case. Our commitment to protecting the civil rights of all in New Jersey is steadfast.” ...

 

[OceanBonfire]

Well, it embolden them:

In the minutes after a jury acquitted 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse on all counts, jubilation lit up on social media spaces where far-right extremists gather.

For far-right groups, Rittenhouse's acquittal is a cause for celebration

One expert fears that the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse will embolden people to seek out altercations where it could be possible to make claims of self-defense.

www.npr.org

 

[brihard]

Well, it embolden them:

For far-right groups, Rittenhouse's acquittal is a cause for celebration

One expert fears that the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse will embolden people to seek out altercations where it could be possible to make claims of self-defense.

www.npr.org

Yup.

The verdict itself is a straightforward and narrow one of self defense, the ugly larger context aside.

Unfortunately, Rittenhouse became a cause célèbre among a lot of really shitty human beings, and the abject celebration of this verdict goes well beyond the legal consequence of it. Him posing for photos with a group of Proud Boys in a bar certainly doesn’t help that. He’s this week’s bug lamp for the far right.

That’s mostly not his fault. It’s just an ugly reality that must be accepted and contended with.

There will be other ramifications. Expect to see more of the far left arming themselves at protests and demonstrations. I’ve seen a lot of potentially credible rhetoric to that effect. There will be more dangerous flashpoints coming.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Ziminski and Grosskreutz already brought pistols to their fight. No-one else knows what the latter really meant to do when he made that final lunge and dropped his pistol arm down from "raised hands".

 

[FJAG]

Him posing for photos with a group of Proud Boys in a bar certainly doesn’t help that.

Not only posing but grinning from ear-to-ear and flashing a white power hand sign several times.

I guess POTUS was right all along.

 

[mariomike]

Unfortunately, Rittenhouse became a cause célèbre among a lot of really shitty human beings, and the abject celebration of this verdict goes well beyond the legal consequence of it.

I wonder how police officers feel about armed civilians showing up to "help" ?

In the minutes after a jury acquitted 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse on all counts, jubilation lit up on social media spaces where far-right extremists gather.

Sounds like the social media equivalent of winning the Super Bowl.

 

[kkwd]

Not only posing but grinning from ear-to-ear and flashing a white power hand sign several times.

I guess POTUS was right all along.

It is not always as it seems.
White Power Symbol?

 

[FJAG]

Sometimes it is

 

[kkwd]

Sometimes it is

This symbol hoax courtesy of 4chan sure has taken on a life of it's own.
Okay Hand Gesture
How the “OK” Symbol Became a Popular Trolling Gesture

 

[mariomike]

It is not always as it seems.
White Power Symbol?

Some people seem obsessed with AOC.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Simpler theory is that extremists took advantage of Rittenhouse.

 

[kkwd]

Some people seem obsessed with AOC.

It was the first image in the article. Sometimes things are not as they seem.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Some people seem obsessed with AOC.

What's your criteria for being obsessed with something?

 

[mariomike]

Like The Head said.

 

[TheHead]

I'd say posting anime clips of elected officials killing AOC or Marjorie-Taylor-Greene the Q-Anon Karens constant twitter outbursts and harassment border on obsession.

 

[kkwd]

I'd say posting anime clips of elected officials killing AOC or Marjorie-Taylor-Greene the Q-Anon Karens constant twitter outbursts and harassment border on obsession.

Well I just drew a breath of relief, that excludes me then. I take no responsibility for someone else's actions.

 

[brihard]

Tentatively posting this here. Vehicle ramming attack through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin (not far up the highway from Kenosha).

Lots of video. Red Ford Escape entered the parade at speed from the rear, struck numerous adults and kids and drove through at least one marching band and at least one girls’ dance troupe. At least 23 victims, at least one fatality and probably more. Police shot at it as it exited the parade route. Dispatch scanner audio called it a black male driver. No word yet on motive. Vehicle and a “person of interest” are in custody. This one is awful.

Driver plows into Waukesha Christmas Parade crowd, leaving five dead, more than 40 injured

Five people were reported dead and more than 40 injured after an SUV plowed through a holiday parade in a Milwaukee suburb.

amp.jsonline.com

 

[OldSolduer]

Tentatively posting this here. Vehicle ramming attack through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin (not far up the highway from Kenosha).

Lots of video. Red Ford Escape entered the parade at speed from the rear, struck numerous adults and kids and drove through at least one marching band and at least one girls’ dance troupe. At least 23 victims, at least one fatality and probably more. Police shot at it as it exited the parade route. Dispatch scanner audio called it a black male driver. No word yet on motive. Vehicle and a “person of interest” are in custody. This one is awful.

Driver plows into Waukesha Christmas Parade crowd, leaving five dead, more than 40 injured

Five people were reported dead and more than 40 injured after an SUV plowed through a holiday parade in a Milwaukee suburb.

amp.jsonline.com

Jezus H Christ - that is freakin awful.

 

[Remius]

Jezus H Christ - that is freakin awful.

Details this morning seem to indicate the perpetrator may have been fleeing a different crime scene.