Saturday, April 26, 2014
CHICAGO (AP) — Three protesters acquitted of terrorism for plotting Molotov cocktail attacks in Chicago during a NATO summit were sentenced to prison terms Friday of between five and eight years on lesser arson and mob-action charges. Among the targets the activists discussed attacking during the 2012 event, prosecutors say, was President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house and police facilities. Despite their acquittals during a February trial on all terrorism counts — brought under a rarely used Illinois statute — the issue remained at the forefront of Friday’s five-hour sentencing hearing. Judge Thaddeus Wilson raised it himself in his remarks minutes before imposing the sentences, saying the plan to lob gas-filled bottles at the targets, had it been carried out, would have struck fear in the city.
FOX NEWS VICEO: Private Investigator Bill Warner warns of possible violence at Tampa RNC with Black Bloc Terrorists Occupy Movment.
“It might not be terrorism,” the Cook County circuit judge said. “But it is terrorizing.” All three were convicted of the same charges, but Brian Church, 22, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., ended up getting the shortest sentence — five years. Jared Chase, 29, of Keene, N.H., got the longest, 8 years; and Brent Betterly, 26, of Oakland Park, got six years. Lead prosecutor Jack Blakey began his statement urging Wilson to hand all three men 14-year sentences by referring to the Boston Marathon bombings one year ago, which left three people dead and hundreds injured. “Why bring up Boson? Because in Boston there were no undercover (police) to intercede,” Blakey said. He suggested that only the successful infiltration of Chicago police posing as activists stopped the defendants from creating similar mayhem.
TAMPA RNC: Bravo Top Cop Jane Castor And Her Cops The Only One’s Who Have Ever Shut Down Occupy Black Bloc Violence. If the ‘Black Bloc Protestors’ from the Occupy movement had not been shut down and taken out of the equation the Republican National Convention would have a disaster and a black eye for Tampa for years to come. No major company or major event would consider Tampa for anything if the Black Bloc Protesters had been allowed to run free through the streets.
Occupy Black Bloc Thugs Had Weapons Stashed in Their Backpacks and Around the Tampa RNC. CBS 10 NEWS TV TAMPA September 1st, 2012. Police say the threat of violence was real. Sanitary workers found caches of poles and bricks in unusual places. And undercover intelligence revealed that some protesters had weapons in their backpacks. However, a strong showing of force and a willingness to de-escalate tensions proved successful. “They were wanting to feed off our aggression. We didn’t give them that and as a result, we just shut’em down,” said Col. Ed Duncan of the Hillsborough Sheriff’s Office.
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