Posted on 10/17/2005 1:13:56 PM PDT by pangaea6
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The last of a South Carolina trio charged with vandalizing the state GOP headquarters the weekend after last year's presidential election was sentenced Friday. Melissa Lynn Brown, 19, pleaded guilty Friday, and Vanessa Marie Zuloaga, 25, entered a guilty plea earlier this week. David Reuben Hensley, 20, pleaded last week.
Each pleaded to one count of felony inciting to riot, received two years' probation and was fined $2,649 in restitution.
All three had faced a charge of malicious use of an explosive to damage property, a felony, and had trials scheduled next week.
On that night in November, a group of 100 people blocked Hillsborough Street, while dozens of others gathered outside Republican Party headquarters.
The groups scattered when police arrived, but residents detained three protesters who ran between houses.
No prison time for these arsonists.
Doesnt that sound rather light?
I wonder how they did that.
Where in the hell is the mandated sensitivity and tolerance training?
The article doesn't say what they did with explosives? Or how they vandalized...anyone know?
If it was an unoccupied abortion clinic that was bombed, they'd be facing years in prison.
Well, the felony rap sheet will pretty much guarantee they won't be able to get a decent post-college job.
Of course not!
If they were Republicans, they'd have had the book thrown at 'em. (IMO)
BTW - I posted this on the NC board the other day but didn't have time to post a thread. Thanks for posting it!
I think they threw a couple of molotav cocktails inside but I can't remember exactly. But they did break the windows and tear up the inside of the building.
Very light. The 2 years should be in the joint.
They all were from South Carolina? Wow, I didn't know they had a young demorat party in South Carolina anymore! What a bunch of kooks these clowns must be! Do they have to stay in North Carolina for their probation period? And, I wonder where they are going to school or where they went to school to learn the fine art of inciting riots?
Except as Under Secretary of State for Anarchist Alliances for Sec State Sandy Berger!
Anyone wanna bet that they still find a way to vote?
These were not random acts by individuals. The was a coordinated nation-wide assault on political freedom. Republican offices all over the country were attacked before the last election. The AFL-CIO made available to the Democrats thousands of its members to disrupt Republican rallies and commit acts of violence and vandalism. Without thuggery, dirty tricks and wholesale voter fraud, the Democrats can not win a national election.
By OREN DORELL, STAFF WRITER
Published: Nov 8, 2004
RALEIGH -- An apparent supporter of three people arrested on charges of vandalizing the North Carolina Republican headquarters Friday attacked two cameramen as they followed him out of the Wake County Public Safety Center Monday afternoon. The unidentified young man shielded his face from the cameras as he left the first appearance hearing for David Reuben Hensley, Melissa Lynn Brown and Vanessa Marie Zuloaga, where he had tried to communicate with them from his front row seat in the courtroom. He smashed the cameras to the floor and ran.
Hensley, 20, Brown, 18, and Zuloaga, 24, were arrested after they were detained by residents in the Cameron Village area after a group of about 100 demonstrators smashed windows, spray painted vulgar slogans and apparently tried to torch the GOP headquarters at 1506 Hillsborough St.
Wake County District Court Judge Robert Rader officially informed each of the defendants of the charge they are facing -- felony malicious damaging by use of an incendiary device -- and asked each if they wanted to represent themselves, want a court appointed attorney or already have an attorney.
When each of the defendants was brought forward, the man in the audience, who wore a torn but mended black T-shirt and had dark hair with the ends dyed a reddish blond, tried to signal to them, apparently trying to communicate that each should request a court appointed attorney.
Hensley looked at him and took the cue. Brown did not respond to the man's coughing and tapping but requested a court appointed attorney also. Zuloaga engaged Rader in a conversation about whether she would qualify for pro bono legal help, ignored the noise from the audience and waived her right to an attorney.
At that point the man in the audience grabbed his head.
After the incident outside the building, Rick Poplin, an investigator for the Wake County District Attorney's Office approached the two cameramen and said that Wake Sheriffs deputies obtained the man's name on his way into the courthouse and gave it to the Raleigh Police Department. Two Raleigh officers then approached the cameramen to take a report.
So... three Dem VP possibles for 2008...
Hmmmm. They all got that light mustache thing going on. Could be part of a gang.
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