20 year and 15 year sentences for flag waving disrupters in Douglas county

[JDS556762]

Yep....in combat when some ****er tries to kill you....you kill him back....and in the moment you intently hate him for trying to kill you...Hate Killing. But this is Good Hate you are laying down.......As opposed to the Bad Hate....The kind only liberals can discern.
It all seems logical..........not.

100% true.

 

[araomd]

(Psssssssst! Hey! Georgia does not have any "hate crime" laws)

http://www.politifact.com/georgia/s...carolina-georgia-3-other-states-dont-have-ha/

It was NOT prosecuted as a "hate crime", it was prosecuted under Georgia's "Street Gang Terrorism" law.
http://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1376&context=gsulr

 

[CQB27]

100% true.

We know....we know.

 

[JDS556762]

(Psssssssst! Hey! Georgia does not have any "hate crime" laws)

http://www.politifact.com/georgia/s...carolina-georgia-3-other-states-dont-have-ha/

I throw down in all 50 states

 

[batoncolle]

(Psssssssst! Hey! Georgia does not have any "hate crime" laws)

http://www.politifact.com/georgia/s...carolina-georgia-3-other-states-dont-have-ha/

Except the judge applied it when handing down his sentence, per his statements on the case.

 

[araomd]

Except the judge applied it when handing down his sentence, per his statements on the case.

Pretty sure the judge can't just make up a maximum sentence for a law that doesn't exist.

 

[batoncolle]

Pretty sure the judge can't just make up a maximum sentence for a law that doesn't exist.

He didn't. He called it a hate crime and said they were motivated by racial hatred, and that's why they got the maximum penalty.

 

[NewLeaf]

These cases often go federal anyway don't they??

 

[araomd]

He didn't. He called it a hate crime and said they were motivated by racial hatred, and that's why they got the maximum penalty.

Also "permantly banished from Douglas County".

 

[araomd]

These cases often go federal anyway don't they??

Not this one at least:

The Douglas County district attorney, Brian Fortner, a white Republican elected to the office in 2014, announced the indictments in a news conference Monday morning. Each of the 15 was indicted on one count of making terroristic threats and a second count of unlawfully participating in “criminal gang activity.”

Several criminal lawyers and legal scholars said Monday that they could not recall other instances in which a state anti-gang statute had been used to prosecute a Confederate heritage group in the Deep South. The first version of Georgia’s anti-gang law was passed in 1992 at the behest of Atlanta’s police chief at the time, Eldrin Bell.

The state’s General Assembly, in the law’s statement of intent, noted that citizens retained their rights to freedom of expression and association. But it also declared that Georgia was in a “state of crisis which has been caused by violent criminal street gangs whose members threaten, terrorize and commit a multitude of crimes against the peaceful citizens of their neighborhoods.”