C-ville's take on "commie killer" Borden's sentencing hearing

[Yonnie3]

https://www.c-ville.com/daniel-borden-2/

Parental influence: Borden gets nearly four years for garage attack

Samantha Baars
1/08/19 at 3:40 PM

He wore a construction helmet that said “commie killer” as he joined in on a brutal beating in a downtown parking garage, striking the already downed DeAndre Harris with a stick until it broke as Harris struggled to pick himself up off the ground.

And though two out-of-town men already found guilty of malicious wounding for participating in the same beating have been sentenced to eight and six years in prison, this one—Daniel Borden, the Ohioan who was 18 years old when he hitched a ride to Charlottesville for the August 12 white supremacist rally—will only serve three years and 10 months.

“I absolutely don’t think my son did anything wrong,” testified his father, retired U.S. Air Force pilot Rick Borden, about the younger Borden’s involvement in what Judge Rick Moore has repeatedly referred to as “one of the worst beatings I’ve ever seen.”

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Prosecutor Nina Antony noted that Borden was half a block away when he saw the beating and decided to join in.

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Lots more to read at the link

[FiveGoodMen]

1. "I absolutely don't think my son did anything wrong," testified his father

Guess we know how the son got to be such an asshole.

[Yonnie3]

2. If you didn't read the article ...

There are also these (my paraphrasing)

Mama says pictures of son are fake news.

Prosecution says something to the effect that they are not going to let the parents testimony make them ask for a longer sentence.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Well, I have now

Article makes the kid sound a little better and the folks a bit worse