Prosecutor: Distributor of KKK flier facing criminal charges

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Prosecutor: Distributor of KKK flier facing criminal charges
Updated 7:46 pm, Thursday, November 12, 2015

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A white man who prosecutors say distributed Ku Klux Klan recruitment fliers to two members of the city's small minority community is facing criminal charges.

The fliers didn't include a call to violence, but distributing them only to a black woman and a Hispanic woman shows an intent to threaten and therefore doesn't fall under free-speech protections, Chittenden County State's Attorney T.J. Donovan said Thursday.

William Schenk was arrested Thursday on disorderly conduct charges, prosecutors said. Because his conduct was motivated by race, the penalty could be enhanced to more than four years in prison if he is convicted, they said.

Schenk, 21, is expected to be in court Friday. It was unknown if he had a lawyer, and no phone number for him could be located in Burlington or in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he used to live.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Vermont-prosecutor-police-to-talk-of-KKK-6627305.php

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Older, and more recent mugshots, William Schenk. [/center]

[cstanleytech]

1. What are the odds though of them getting a conviction on these assholes though that isnt thrown out

on appeal?

[juxtaposed]

2. same asshole both pictures

[karynnj]

5. At least he will face trial and public exposure

I live in Burlington and was at a rally last Thursday. Churches and our synagogue joined peace and justice activists in standing against this. Given that this coward likely never thought that his anonymously dropped posters would ever be connected to him, it is very significant that he was identified, pursued by the police and charged. At minimum, he will pay a cost -- of fearing jail - for attempting to terrorize these women. That alone (though I hope he is convicted) is something.

Meanwhile, the women have seen large parts of the community back and support them. The initial call was mishandled and it took a well placed activist to get action, but once that happened, there was support and anger against the person who did this.

[GOLGO 13]

3. Why do all these master race Supermen, all look like the guy that work in the Sears

automotive section?

[Archae]

6. They look more like the guy who says to you...

"Do you want fries with that?"

[Sunlei]

4. Scary person, he only placed the 2 fliers on homes of 2 woman, POC.

That action is a 'threat'.