According to court documents, the user posted a threat to assault federal law enforcement officers writing, "...shoot every agent on sight," in a discussion about the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco in 1993. [More]There's a big difference between an opinion and a threat, and that hardly seems as specific as, say, Madonna telling a mob she wanted to blow up the White House. Unless there's a lot more we're not being told, an honest juror would have plenty of reasonable doubt.
Not to say the kid doesn't merit a closer look and possibly more, but this looks more like picking low-hanging fruit to grab sensational hero headlines and justify a six-month "investigation." It will no doubt be used to pressure DeSwine into earning back his Brady "A" by calling for upping Ohio's handgun possession laws.
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It’s quite likely that if you got to read more than the FIVE WORDS they quote from his posting, the context would paint an entirely different picture.
ReplyDeleteI’ve seen a lot of “no more Wacos” postings claiming that the government should never again expect the Christian courtesy David Koresh showed in allowing ATF a cease-fire to collect their dead and wounded unmolested, and this phrase could quite logically have appeared in any of them.
This seems to put things in context:
ReplyDelete* https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2019/08/ohio-man-posted-about-mass-shootings-attacking-planned-parenthood-and-federal-agents-authorities-say.html