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| Charlottesville Jury Fines Man $1 for Punching White Nationalist |
| 2018-09-07 |
| [Rolling Stone] Jeffrey Winder was found guilty of misdemeanor assault in February for punching white-nationalist organizer Jason Kessler in August 2017. On Tuesday, a jury ruled that his punishment will be a whopping $1 fine. Kessler attempted to hold a press conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, the day after Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist who drove his car into a group of people protesting the white nationalist rally organized by Kessler’s "Unite the Right" group. Winder was among the protesters who showed up to stop Kessler from making a statement, punching him in the back of the head as others booed and shouted over him. Winder faced a maximum possible sentence of a year in jail and a $2,500 fine for the punch, which was caught on tape by the local NBC affiliate. He appealed his misdemeanor assault conviction, and while the jury upheld the guilty verdict, they determined that he should serve no jail time and should only be fined $1, sending a clear message that Winder was justified in lashing out at Kessler. Winder’s attorney, James Abrenio, argued that Kessler brought the punch on himself by holding a press conference while the city was reeling from the so-recent death of Heyer, arguing that he was "going out of his way" to "profit off tragedy" |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 I'd be willing to punch both sides. Would it cost me two bucks? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-09-07 17:28 |
| #10 I don't think he's a tubthumper for hire. I think he's an agent provacatuer. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-09-07 17:01 |
| #9 So, the court has encouraged further violence. It's corrupt. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-09-07 16:28 |
| #8 The moral of the story is: Do not wait for the police to arrest your attacker. Beat the crap out of him before the police get there. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-09-07 12:50 |
| #7 Yeah. The guy is a tubthumper for hire. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-09-07 12:15 |
| #6 TFSM - he was a big time Obama supporter and member of Occupy Wall Street, and I see no indication that he has changed his stripes. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2018-09-07 12:15 |
| #5 Isn't Kessler the one who was a bigshot Obama supporter/Organgrinding for America guy? (Or is it Organizing for America? I forget). |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-09-07 12:05 |
| #4 Will the left like the new rules they're creating? They're sure that if you punch one of them in the face, you'll get life. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-07 11:15 |
| #3 Will the left like the new rules they're creating? This seems to set a precendent. Lefties are no only 1USD a punch in the face |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-09-07 11:13 |
| #2 So much for 'equal before the law'. Sort of a Sandy Berger punishment. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-09-07 08:24 |
| #1 The "justice" of a liberal Mecca. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-09-07 07:11 |