Colorado Terror Suspect Charged With 12 Federal Hate Crimes
Soliman also faces 118 criminal charges at the state level.
The DOJ announced that Colorado terror suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an illegal alien, faces 12 hate crime counts.
It includes nine counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 249 and three counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 844(h).
The charges stem from an attack on the pro-Israel group “Run for Their Lives” in Boulder, CO. The group gathers every week to hold vigils for hostages held by Hamas in Gaza:
According to the indictment, on June 1, Soliman entered the park carrying both a backpack weed sprayer that contained a flammable liquid and a black plastic container that held at least 18 glass bottles and jars, all of which contained a flammable liquid and several of which had red rags stuffed through the top to act as wicks (commonly referred to as Molotov cocktails).
At approximately 1:30 p.m., Soliman approached the Run for Their Lives group and threw two Molotov cocktails that he had ignited. When throwing one of the Molotov cocktails, he shouted, “Free Palestine!”
A handwritten document was later recovered from the vehicle driven by Soliman. The document included the following statements: “Zionism is our enemies untill [sic] Jerusalem is liberated and they are expelled from our land,” and further described Israel as a “cancer entity.”
Soliman faces 118 criminal charges at the state level. Those charges “include 28 counts of attempted murder, two counts of use of an explosive/incendiary device, 16 counts of attempted use of an explosive/incendiary device and one count of cruelty to animals.”
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A charge of cruelty to animals? Seems to me Soliman is the animal here.
drop the race based hate crimes law
its juvenile at best and further continues the lefts agenda to claim another feather in the cap of victimhood
yeah,,I get it that the gop uses it too ..b/c its there
drop it!
Yup. “Hate” explains motive. It’s not a crime to just hate. Although demonstrating “hate” may be evidence of “willfulness,” an element of “guilt.”
the willfulness is evident by the action
the hate crime law is another appeasement to the dangerous radical emotional based leftists
Agreed. Absolutely pursue assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder charges. The defendant either committed the assault and attempted to murder or he didn’t. “Hate crime” charges smack of thought police and criminalizing bad attitudes. The same goes for using them merely as sentencing enhancements.
and worse
sentencing non -enhancements
I’ve never heard of a valid reason for ‘hate crime enhancements”
It’s very simple. A crime directed at one person, for reasons only relevant to that person, only has one victim. A crime directed at a person merely because he is a member of a wider class victimizes every member of that class, and is intended to do so.
A graffitist putting his tag on one house is not a huge deal; make him clean it up, compensate the homeowner, and put in some community service. A neo-nazi painting a swastika on a house in a Jewish neighborhood intends to terrorize the entire neighborhood. Every Jew in the vicinity is a victim, and the crime needs to be punished far more stringently.
Motive has been a sentencing factor for the entire history of our legal system. It featured in the legal code Jefferson drafted for Virginia.
“Hate crime” laws merely mandate that the judge gives this motive the proper weight it deserves, and, importantly, take the decision of whether hatred really was the motive away from the judge, and give it to the jury. Rather than the prosecutor merely persuading the judge to grant the sentence enhancement, making it a formal factor means the prosecutor has to convince each juror of it. If the jury is not convinced that hatred was the motive, the judge can’t enhance the sentence for it. That is a good thing, and it can’t happen without formal hate-crime laws.
If these laws were evenly applied I might think they gad a point
Might
The Federal charges may be tried, but I rather suspect that the state charges will drop by the wayside. This is hard core Leftist Colorado, and location of the crime was the Peoples’ Democrat Republic of Boulder. I expect that the DA is going to do his best to drop charges, because a conviction on state charges will harm him with his voters.
Subotai Bahadur
My first thought: Death by Wood Chipper for this illegal alien. I know it’s not fair to the wood chipper but it is for a good cause.
Feet first, or maybe a hog finishing pen.
I was thinking more of Vlad Țepeș, with the stake lightly lubed with lard.
Subotai Bahadur
Biden’s legacy.
Let’s all remember that he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. And, that really sucks. He should be tied to a lamppost and flayed alive by passersby.
I’m not on the jury. I’m not the judge. I’m not his defense lawyer, so I don’t even have to act like he’s innocent.
He’s guilty. He should have been disposed of at the scene. His trial should take place in two weeks, last 30 minutes, followed by the victims giving statements, with his execution the next morning.