Mark Ponder, 52, of Washington D.C., a black Trumper who was detained on Jan. 6, 2021, for assaulting cops guarding the Capitol, and after being released resumed attacking cops, was sentenced to 63 months in prison and 3 years of parole by a federal judge on Monday, July 26, 2022 (read story here).�[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
July 26th, 2022 - 3:29 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Capitol rioter gets 5 years for attacking cops
July 24th, 2022 - 8:53 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Another criminally irresponsible pitbull owner
If you let 7 snarling pitbulls run loose and they bite, gnaw, and chew an elderly man to death, how much prison time should you get? This happened in Texas, of course, a state populated by people with a laissez-faire attitude toward dogs and guns, but intolerant of black people who try to vote. Thei[...]
Report Boebert to the FBI for this? Yawn.
A lot of people did (see story here), but I don’t think their complaints are going anywhere. The problem is it’s impossible to prove she committed a crime, because both her intent and the phrase are ambiguous. There are lawful ways to “terminate” a presidency: Impeachment, in[...]
July 7th, 2022 - 6:46 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Search warrant (video)
This is how the Feds execute search warrants against seditionists. Moral: People who plot to overthrow governments should sleep with their pants on. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Unfriendly Friendswood, Texas
Actually, the hate rolled in from out of town. Friendswood is an affluent Houston exurb, mostly white, with a population larger than Wenatchee’s (see profile here). They were going to do a Fourth of July parade until the rightwing hate showed up. The grand marshal was to be native daughter Hal[...]
July 2nd, 2022 - 9:47 pm § in Law and Courts
“Hot car” dad’s murder sentence overturned
It was a lurid case that received national media coverage, and when it was over, Justin Harris of Marietta, Georgia, was sentenced to life without parole for intentionally murdering his 1-year-old son by leaving him in a hot car. The verdict raised some eyebrows, because most “hot car” d[...]
Witness tampering is what criminals do
When someone mentions witness tampering, I think of Mafia hoods bribing or threatening witnesses, or, in Russia, Putin’s goons killing them and dumping their bodies in the river that flowing through Moscow. It looks like Trump’s gang has joined the party. Cassidy Hutchinson, who testifie[...]
June 29th, 2022 - 6:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
There’s a 1955 arrest warrant for Emmett Till woman
There was always an arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham for her role in the 14-year-old Chicago black boy’s lynching. It’s been sitting in a Mississippi courthouse since August 1955. “The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized at the time, but the Leflore county sheriff [...]
June 25th, 2022 - 1:49 pm § in Politics
GOP candidate withdraws after slapping female opponent
Yesterday, Jeann Lugo (photo, left) was a Providence, Rhode Island, police officer and GOP candidate for state senate. Today, he’s no longer a candidate, is on administrative leave, and probably will lose his police job. He’ll likely be sued for personal injury, and may go to jail, too. [...]
June 21st, 2022 - 8:25 pm § in Misc.
GOP attorney general who killed a man and reported hitting a deer is removed from office
Jason Ravnsborg, South Dakota’s attorney general since 2019, and impeached by the GOP-controlled legislature on April 12, 2022 (details here), was removed from office by the state senate on June 21, 2022 (see story here). It’s a rare example of Republicans holding a member of their own p[...]