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(70,245 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2024, 03:38 PM Apr 8

Saying prosecutors should focus on Antifa, judge frees white supremacist in beating [View all]

Source: usa today

Will Carless April 8, 2024

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.

“Sentencing Mr. Laube to additional incarceration would only increase the disparity between his punishment and the lack of punishment (and prosecution) members of far-left groups who have committed the same violent conduct received,” Carney wrote. The sentence: time served, 35 days, rather than the six months prosecutors had sought.

The same day Laube received his light sentence at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana, the largest-ever prosecution of members of Antifa in American history was going to trial just 89 miles away. .......................................

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/04/08/judge-cormac-carney-tyler-laube-sentence/73220283007/

A judge gave a light sentence to a white supremacist because he thought prosecutors should be focusing on Antifa instead.
Is this what our justice system has come to??
Politics? What happened to #LawAndOrder
#Fresh
#DemsUnited

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A pro-Trump rally participant wears a U.S. flag during a march in support of then-President Donald Trump in Huntington Beach, California, March 25, 2017. Beatings at the rally led to charges that several men violated federal laws against rioting and conspiracy to riot.

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Saying prosecutors should focus on Antifa, judge frees white supremacist in beating [View all] riversedge Apr 8 OP

Yeah. Antifa are those guys Turbineguy Apr 8 #1

Racist, gonna be racist. mercuryblues Apr 8 #2

What an outrage! DavidDvorkin Apr 8 #3

Hopefully angrychair Apr 8 #4

The judge should be censured. patphil Apr 8 #5

He should be removed & disbarred. onetexan Apr 8 #11

Sure seems like it to me. Seems he was basing the sentence on "facts not in evidence" Bernardo de La Paz Apr 8 #14

Absolutely! Lunabell Apr 8 #20

Exactly. patphil Apr 8 #22

Looks like someone has a little history BaronChocula Apr 8 #6

Looks like to be the same oneand a judge who did not learn his lesson riversedge Apr 8 #27

What the actual F*ck?!? hueymahl Apr 8 #7

Great point. Yes. Anti-fascists are more threatening than the racist criminal. According to fascists & racist criminals Marcus IM Apr 8 #15

So members of antifa should get a pass because they call themselves antifascist? LeftInTX Apr 8 #39

How can someone be a "member of antifa"? Mister Ed Apr 9 #41

Your link is to a Fox channel... Mr. Mustard 2023 Apr 9 #55

One of my links is PBS. The other was just the local Fox affiliate. So, I will provide non-Fox articles. LeftInTX Apr 9 #58

San Diego County isn't blue NanaCat Apr 9 #59

Sounds like somebody wants a SCROTUS seat. GreenWave Apr 8 #8

This "judge" should be impeached. GOTV. Hermit-The-Prog Apr 8 #9

If I was the prosecutor I would have gone ballistic! Grins Apr 8 #10

Antifa is an adjective, as in anti-fascist. hadEnuf Apr 8 #12

It's a real group. They've been around since 1932. They even have their own flag. See Brian Lightfoot's handle below. LeftInTX Apr 8 #38

What nonsense. If "antifa" is an organization, then how does one join it? Mister Ed Apr 9 #40

They went to trial. LeftInTX Apr 9 #42

I'm asking you. How does one join "antifa"? Mister Ed Apr 9 #44

I'm not an expert are you? If you are convinced it doesn't exist, prove that it doesn't exist! LeftInTX Apr 9 #46

The absurdity increases. Prove a negative? Mister Ed Apr 9 #47

I've proven that they exist. LeftInTX Apr 9 #48

You've proven what we already know: that people who subscribe to this school of thought exist. Mister Ed Apr 9 #49

Good grief NanaCat Apr 9 #60

I've got one of those flags Blackjackdavey Apr 9 #57

That judge should resign ExciteBike66 Apr 8 #13

So......we're not punishing judicial misconduct anymore? Aristus Apr 8 #16

Given the totality of circumstances is it worth moving for impeachment? YES! Marcuse Apr 8 #17

This loon was foisted upon us by Shrub. PSPS Apr 8 #18

Fascism on the march.... magicarpet Apr 8 #19

WOW! WTF? bluestarone Apr 8 #21

GOP leaders install the 'right' judges pfitz59 Apr 8 #23

This ignorant bigot of a judge... GiqueCee Apr 8 #24

The federal judge's strong words - and clear political bent - are as unusual as they are uninformed, legal experts told riversedge Apr 8 #25

Can that asshole be removed from the bench? SouthernDem4ever Apr 8 #26

A Bush II appointee. This isn't his first questionable decision. Ocelot II Apr 8 #28

Are there even any WW2 vets still alive to prosecute though? Think. Again. Apr 8 #29

Somehow I don't think he'll be on the bench much longer. marble falls Apr 8 #30

He's retiring. So you'd be correct rpannier Apr 8 #35

Can't be soon enough. Can the prosecution appeal this to a higher court? SouthernDem4ever Apr 9 #51

It will go to the 9th and likely be overturned rpannier Apr 10 #61

My understanding is different than yours onenote Apr 10 #64

Clearly the judge is a partisan hack. Plus... littlemissmartypants Apr 8 #31

Looks like Speaker Johnson's older brother underpants Apr 8 #32

Relative religious views. czarjak Apr 9 #43

Is that a green light or what ??? SamKnause Apr 8 #33

Sounds like a right wing judge right out of the Weimar Republic. thucythucy Apr 8 #34

Good play if Trump wins '24 oasis Apr 8 #36

Does this get appealed? Ford_Prefect Apr 8 #37

See post #64 onenote Apr 10 #65

Not racist either? czarjak Apr 9 #45

Not only white privilege but also white supremacist privilege, this is the bias they have on their side ck4829 Apr 9 #50

Eye opening! wolfie001 Apr 9 #52

Straight white male privilege strikes again Ray Bruns Apr 9 #53

This is judicial malpractice. The Unmitigated Gall Apr 9 #54

These idiots also think Antifa masquerades as white supremacists to commit false flag ops IronLionZion Apr 9 #56

So blatant. Wow. Passages Apr 10 #62

Cormac J. Carney should be Censored at least.. he's Cha Apr 10 #63

Appeal time & recommend judge he disbarred. onetexan Apr 11 #66

Sadly no appeal. A miscarriage of justice. Only guilty verdicts and punishments can be appealed. LeftInTX Apr 11 #67