Charge of firing gun at protesters not first for KKK member

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 5:37 pm, Monday, August 28, 2017

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — A man who police say fired a handgun during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is a KKK member who's been charged but not convicted of violent crimes in the past.

Richard Wilson Preston Jr. on Monday said he wouldn't fight extradition from his home city of Baltimore to Charlottesville. He faces a count of discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school during the Aug. 12 rally.

The ACLU released a video of a man firing a gun toward protesters before Preston was arrested Saturday. No one was hit.

A 2013 article and video from the News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware, shows Preston in Ku Klux Klan garb calling for the impeachment of then President Barack Obama.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Charge-of-firing-gun-at-protesters-not-first-for-12098427.php

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[guillaumeb]

1. Proving that there is zero link between age and wisdom.

Once a racist idiot, generally always a racist idiot.

[Nevernose]

2. Discharging a firearm within 1000 feet of a school?

Holy shit. A Klansmen fires a shot into a group of protestors anf that's the best they can do?

For the record, there's video of him pulling the gun during the protest multiple times, because he's a giant wimp.

[dalton99a]

3. It's a Class 4 felony in Virginia, 2-10 years

[IronLionZion]

4. Undercharging helps get convictions

overcharging risks the chance of acquittal.

Just think of the diversity he will experience in prison.