Calif. judge gives man light sentence because of 'lack of punishment ... of far left groups.' Yet Antifa members are on trial one county away.

In his sentencing memo Thursday, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney made it clear why he was letting Tyler Laube off lightly.

It wasn’t just because of what Laube did or didn’t do – the defendant had already confessed to beating a journalist at a 2017 Southern California rally and pleaded guilty to violating riot laws as part of a white supremacist gang.

Laube deserved a light sentence, Carney said, because prosecutors should have focused on leftist groups.

In a 22-page memo, Carney repeatedly said prosecutors have “ignored” violence committed by Antifa and instead focused on targeting people like Laube – Trump supporters and members of the far right.

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The federal judge’s strong words – and clear political bent – are as unusual as they are uninformed, legal experts told USA TODAY.

“He’s really gone off the deep end,” said John Donohue, a professor at Stanford Law School.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    8 months ago

    You are aware that someone was justifiably shot to death for attempting to reach a protected person under siege right?

    There were barricades and evacuations. There were calls for Pence’s head to be removed from his body because he didn’t do his part of the plan to realize the coup, there was planning prior to locate offices of persons of interest and escape routes, there was weapons confiscated before the event.

    You don’t get to claim a protest because a single cop was sympathetic to the cause. But you know that. There is no ambiguity, at this point you are complicit in its white washing

          • nac82@lemm.ee
            4·
            8 months ago

            You can’t even cope with the fact they beat cops to death.

            Ypu described it as “the cops let them in”

            The irony in being in denial over all of the details while claiming to be looking at the big picture.

        • John_McMurray@lemmy.world
          26·
          8 months ago

          Nah I’m just not a statist that needs it to be an attempted insurrection to justify my rhetoric. BTW, real insurrections aren’t mostly unarmed staying inside the velvet ropes