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'I thought they were going to kill my daughter'
2021-12-03
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] NY mom-of-three reveals why she's risking seven-year sentence at trial rather than taking a plea for mowing down 50 BLM protesters when they mobbed her car
  • Kathleen Casillo, 53, told DailyMail.com she feared for her daughter's life when she floored her black BMW sedan into a group of protesters last year

  • She had been going Christmas shopping with her then 29-year-old daughter, Dominique, when she says a group of protesters started banging on her car and breaking her daughter's window

  • She claimed she feared the protesters were going to pull her daughter out of the car, and hit the gas, slamming into a group of 50 Black Lives Matter protesters and injuring nine last December

  • In the aftermath, she was issued a desk appearance ticket and was released only hours after her arrest

  • She was later charged with reckless assault in the third degree on February 22

  • Casillo has since been branded as a racist, her family says, a narrative that she denies, claiming she doesn't even know the races of the people she hit

  • She has since been getting death threats, her family claims, and had to have a police presence outside her Howard Beach, Queens home for a week afterwards

  • Dominique says she now has PTSD and is seeing a therapist

  • On Wednesday, Casillo was seen being escorted into the Manhattan Criminal Court as protesters outside compared her to Kyle Rittenhouse

  • She rejected the court's offer for a plea deal, which would have given her six days of community service and one year license suspension, in favor of a trial
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Kathleen Casillo: 2021-12-02 White NYC woman who plowed BMW through 50 Manhattan BLM protesters REFUSES plea deal which would see her complete six days community service and instead demands trial: Says activists began attacking luxury sedan as she drove down street
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  I'll bet you the J6ers know that.

Vespasian,

You make a good and valid point.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-12-03 10:40  

#3  I've said for a while that part of the problem here is that there is little or no risk whatsoever for rioters here in the West. Since 1945 for literally 99.999% of these people, the worst thing they face is a whiff of tear gas or maybe an uncomfortable night or two in jail. If they knew - knew - that there was a better than even chance of not going home completely intact, or at all, peaceful protest might make a sudden comeback.

I'll bet you the J6ers know that.

Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2021-12-03 08:21  

#2  The rioters broke a window? Yeah, she did the right thing.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-12-03 07:33  

#1  ...I'm hoping that this lady and her counsel have a solid handle on how a Queens jury would vote. If they do, then a not guilty verdict could go a long way towards convincing people that this sort of thing isn't the cosplay-revolutionary fun that some think it is.

I've said for a while that part of the problem here is that there is little or no risk whatsoever for rioters here in the West. Since 1945 for literally 99.999% of these people, the worst thing they face is a whiff of tear gas or maybe an uncomfortable night or two in jail. If they knew - knew - that there was a better than even chance of not going home completely intact, or at all, peaceful protest might make a sudden comeback.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-12-03 06:32  

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