Posted on 09/26/2007 10:32:58 PM PDT by Dubya
A jury has aqcuitted an anti-illegal immigration activist accused of battery and hate crimes in a brawl with day laborers at a makeshift hiring site in Rancho Penasquitos last November.
John Matthew Monti, 36, was cleared on all charges, including three battery counts, three hate crime counts, and one count of filing a false police report.
The case highlighted seething tensions between anti-illegal immigration activists and day laborers who for more than a year have confronted one another at hiring sites in North County.
Each side blamed the other for starting the brawl that ended up in the middle of busy Rancho Pensaquitos Boulevard about 11 a.m. Nov. 19.
San Diego Deputy City Attorney Scott Pirrello told jurors during the trial that Monti started the fight when he allegedly grabbed one of the laborers and chased him into the street. Monti was at the site to photograph day laborers and people who hired them.
During the trial, day laborer Estanislao Gonzales testified that he didn't want his picture taken and tried to leave. He said the sweat shirt he was using to cover his face may have brushed against Monti as he passed him, and that Monti subsequently grabbed his right arm. Gonzales testified that he pulled away and ran, but Monti chased him into the street, knocked him down and beat him.
Monti then battled Gonzales' friends when they came to help, Pirrello said.
But Monti's attorney, Allison Aranda, argued that before the brawl, the day laborers had threatened Monti as he snapped photos, and that the fight started when one of them hit the Los Angeles area schoolteacher from behind.
"It is illogical to accept this theory that Mr. Monti started a fight with nine of them," Aranda said. "By himself?"
-- Contact staff writer Teri Figueroa at (760) 631-6624 or tfigueroa@nctimes.com.
I'm still pissed though.
John Matthew Monti, 36, was cleared on all charges, including three battery counts, three hate crime counts, and one count of filing a false police report.
Even though this is the facts, he was found not guilty, the author just had to add this little tid bit..
Monti chased him into the street, knocked him down and beat him.
Thanks for the ‘toon. I’m sure I’ll burn out my keyboard on that one! :-)
A jury has aqcuitted an anti-illegal immigration activist accused of battery and hate crimes in a brawl with day laborers...
now illegals get hate crime status....
every group does except white US male law abiding taxpayers...they are now secind class citizens to anyone and everyone else!!!
Some guy called into Rush today saying that there is no such thing as white people so, therefore, white people cannot commit hate crimes.
Well, where are the hate crime charges and felony assault charges against the criminal invaders?
Now that the jury agreed with his version of the facts, what do you think the chances are that the DA will bring charges of A&B and hate crimes against the day laborers who started the fight?
Good News Ping
Wonder what the status is on battery charges against the illegals?
Or were they deported?
Kick the effers out of the country. Every last one of them that are illegal.
ZERO - Only a heterosexual white male is capable of committing a hate crime.
Good question, email them and ask that question, I did! cityattorney@sandiego.gov
Ain’t that the truth!
Zero chance. Illegals are the protected class here in Mexifornia.
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“Well, where are the hate crime charges and felony assault charges against the criminal invaders?”
Only white people commit hate crimes.........
I’m glad he won in court. It was great.
EVER wonder why DA’s or police routinely arrest citizens in these matters and then refuse to enforce the law against clear lawbreakers crime done in their ‘ward of the court’ presense.
too hypocritical to understand.
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