Joey Meek indicted for not informing on racist white supremacist killer

[malaise]

Dylann Roof.

per CNN

[randys1]

1. Good. Sends a message.

Although I admit I am curious what the ACLU will think of this kind of indictment.

[brer cat]

2. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. nt

[randys1]

3. This kind of law could be used against people politically, so not sure how I feel about it

[brer cat]

4. I think it could have a number

of applications that I would question. First thing that came to my mind would be parents/siblings/friends of mentally ill people or children who might make what appears to be empty threats, but then go on to actually carry it out.

[randys1]

5. Too big brother for me, and as bad as I want to shake that guy and ask him

WHAT THE FUCK were you thinking not turning him in.

I am not so sure i want that to be a crime

[malaise]

7. I think it's the result of that CNN interview where

he said Roof was talking about planning a race war. In that interview he even said that he hid the gun because he was worried Roof was going to use it. If he was that sure shouldn't he have informed the authorities or at least tell him to leave his place?

[brer cat]

8. I may be wrong

but I think in that interview he said Roof was drunk, and he gave the gun back when he sobered up. I don't know if that would be a defense for not reporting it or not. I have certainly heard drunks say things I would not hold them to when sober.

[malaise]

9. If Roof was drunk that's true

but I remember him saying he put the gun back where Roof put it because he didn't want to be caught with an illegal gun.
Maybe we can find video or a transcript

[brer cat]

10. Here is a report about that interview:

In an interview in June, Meek said Roof had complained about blacks when he was drunk and had said "blacks were taking over the world" and that "someone needed to do something about it for the white race." Meek also knew Roof had bought a gun and said that he had hidden the gun from Roof during his drunken rant until he had sobered up, the Associated Press reported.

[malaise]

14. Thanks brer cat n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

11. The actual charges are not about not turning him he is accused of actively concealing knowledge

about the crime after it was a crime.

[brer cat]

12. Ah. That is an entirely different situation.

The early reports I saw were that the exact charges weren't known. Thanks for the clarification, Blue.

In a similar situation...WAPO has an article up on the 20th anniversary of their publication of the Unabomber manifesto. Reading the manifesto led Ted Kaczynski’s brother to suspect him and eventually report him to the FBI. I thought about how difficult that must have been for the brother, but obviously he did the right thing to stop him from further killings.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. If he knew something and withheld the information, even if he was not sympathetic,

I expect there will be legal repercussions. This seems very much akin to the person charged with not informing on the Boston bombers.

[ryan_cats]

13. This means that

This means that it must have been OK in Soviet Russia and Germany to inform on parents who who committed crimes like being born Jewish or having feelings of an almost human nature, this will not do.

Nice to see they were ahead of the times.