Oakland: Jury finds Tuolumne County man guilty in 2010 gunfight with CHP (plotted against ACLU)
Source: Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND -- A jury on Monday found a Tuolumne County man who hoped to foment a right-wing revolution with a massacre in San Francisco guilty of attempted murder in a 2010 shootout with CHP officers on an Oakland freeway.
Byron Williams, 48, held his face in his hands as he listened to a jury's verdicts convicting him of eight felony crimes.
He faces life in prison for the attempted murder of California Highway Patrol Officers Vincent Herrick, Marcus Holden, Ty Franklin and Todd Owen.
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He was planning to target "11 high-level participants in the plot to destroy the United States" at the Tides Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups because he was distraught over what defense attorney Eric Schweitzer described as "collusive facts behind the BP oil disaster."
Read more: http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_25312277/oakland-jury-finds-tuolumne-county-man-guilty-2010
Wikipedia: 2010 Oakland freeway shootout
Williams's influence by right wing media attracted much attention in Oct. 2010:
Media Matters: "Progressive Hunter"
Dana Milbank column: Conspiracy theorists find validation from Glenn Beck (10/10/10); Glenn Beck and the Oakland shooter (8/1/10)
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