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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 09:14 PM Sep 2016

Armed anarchists rally at Brock Turner's home: 'Try this again, we'll shoot you'

Source: The Guardian

Armed anarchists rally at Brock Turner's home: 'Try this again, we'll shoot you'

Convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, Turner
returned to his family’s home in Ohio, where activists with assault
rifles gathered to protest


Sam Levin in San Francisco
Tuesday 6 September 2016 22.41 BST

About a dozen armed protesters have shown up to the house of convicted sex offender Brock Turner with signs calling for the castration and killing of rapists, and some say they plan to frequently return to make him “uncomfortable in his own home”.

Turner, who was released from California jail on Friday after serving three months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at Stanford University, has returned to his family’s home in Bellbrook, Ohio, where some activists with assault rifles have gathered to criticize the light punishment.

“With an extremely lenient sentence, he can think ‘I can get away with this,’” Daniel Hardin, who carried an M4 assault rifle, said in an interview. “The message we want to send is … ‘If you try this again, we will shoot you.’”

Turner, a 21-year-old former swimmer at the elite northern California university, was caught assaulting a woman by a dumpster outside a fraternity party in January 2015. After a jury convicted him of multiple felonies, Judge Aaron Persky decided in June not to send him to prison, instead sentencing him to six months in a county jail.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/06/brock-turner-stanford-sexual-assault-case-ohio-armed-protest

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Armed anarchists rally at Brock Turner's home: 'Try this again, we'll shoot you' (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2016 OP
To be honest.. HerrKarlMarx Sep 2016 #1
Your parents would have murdered you? Buzz Clik Sep 2016 #4
I would think so HerrKarlMarx Sep 2016 #5
"That boy is a threat. When I feel threatened, I arm myself, and you better step back." Buzz Clik Sep 2016 #2
Big part of the problem right there Egnever Sep 2016 #12
Assholes threatening an asshole. pangaia Sep 2016 #3
Who knew raping someone could have unintended consequences? Rex Sep 2016 #6
Yeah, I'm finding it hard to cough up any sympathy in this smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #9
Good ol' vigilantes JohnnyLib2 Sep 2016 #7
It's not quite the 1800's in Kentucky yet, but it's getting there. Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2016 #8
Well, we seem to "solve" everything else with guns in this country, so what else is new? nomorenomore08 Sep 2016 #10
Gotta love those responsible gun owners Egnever Sep 2016 #11
playing my small violin. romanic Sep 2016 #13
 

HerrKarlMarx

(37 posts)
1. To be honest..
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 09:25 PM
Sep 2016

Had I ever been convicted of rape, I would've felt safe in police custody. Had I been released back to the general public.. I fear my parents would've had me 'disappear' rather quickly, and not in any good or pleasant way.

 

HerrKarlMarx

(37 posts)
5. I would think so
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 09:31 PM
Sep 2016

My father always said, 'If we ever find you convicted of a heinous crimes, don't expect any sympathy from us.' Rapists and murderers always seemed to elicit the most passionate response. 'They deserve nothing better but the grave.'

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
6. Who knew raping someone could have unintended consequences?
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 09:33 PM
Sep 2016

I want to feel sorry for the boy, I really do...however...



Buckeye_Democrat

(14,846 posts)
8. It's not quite the 1800's in Kentucky yet, but it's getting there.
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 09:53 PM
Sep 2016

I read a late 1800's newspaper article from Northern KY years ago in which an alleged rapist was snatched by the husband's family as he was being transported by authorities from one jail to another (awaiting trial). The family tied him to a tree, sliced him multiple times with knives, gouged out his eyeballs, poured cayenne pepper into the sockets and finally untied the accused to hang him by the neck from a branch.

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