One Black American said it right, "BLM is nothing but Karl Marx in blackface"
Posted on 09/17/2020 5:27:40 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
A Franklin & Marshall College Kappa Delta sorority sister is one of nine people charged with crimes connected to the riots in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, last weekend. The girl's father on Tuesday blasted a judge's decision to set her bail at $1 million as "obscene" and unconstitutional
Kathryn Patterson, 20, faces felony and misdemeanor charges including arson, vandalism, riot, and disorderly conduct after her arrest early Monday. She was allegedly a participant in the protests over the fatal police shooting of Ricardo Munoz, who according to bodycam footage chased a police officer with a knife in a threatening manner.
Patterson is a Black Lives Matter supporter, posting on Facebook "BLM, all day every day" and commenting, "my left fist, to symbolize black power."
The girl's father, Chip Patterson of Mercersburg, called the $1 million bail set by the district judge "obscene."
"Everything that I know so far, which is not a lot, indicates that Kat is not guilty of those charges. But then again, we'll have to wait and see," he told the Associated Press.
"I cannot tell you how long this night has been," he said. "I think regardless of what these people did or didn't do, the bail amount is just outrageous and clearly against the Eighth Amendment." The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits "excessive bail."
Patterson's defenders say she and her friend Taylor Enterline, another individual who was arrested by police, were doing nothing more than acting as "medics" before they were arrested. The social justice advocacy group Lancaster Stands Up characterized the "absurdly high bail amounts" as "a politically motivated attack on the movement for police reform and accountability."
A GoFundMe page set up for Patterson has received support from the Franklin & Marshall College chapter of Delta Kappa, members of the Black Student Union, and as reported by the Washington Free Beacon's Brent Scher, even the college president Barbara Altmann thanked students for creating the GoFundMe, posting on Instagram that "many of us in our community will be contributing."
Kat was providing medical attention to injured demonstrators and has now been wrongfully accused of crimes she could not possibly commit," the page states. "We as members of the Black Student Union and Kappa Delta Sorority, have created this fund to raise money to support Kat and her family."
The fundraiser has so far raise just over $54,000 toward its goal of $60,000.
An update to the page also urges donors to support the GoFundMe pages for "activists and friends" Enterline and Alexa Wise, a "Black Trans Activist" who was also arrested on charges of arson, riot, and vandalism.
There needs to be some kind of definition as to what qualifies for being a medic for “press” at an event, especially a riot. Her father claims she was a medic.
It is an unreasonable bail.
Bail is supposed to be sufficient to guarantee you will how up, nothing more.
Bail is not supposed to be punishment.
Nothing unconstitutional about it
Obscene is a subjective term
One Black American said it right, "BLM is nothing but Karl Marx in blackface"
You never know how your kids will end up. “Educators” can really twist their developing political viewpoints. Our culture doesn’t help either.
10% should get her out, Pop. TS if you don’t have it.
Realistically any large event needs medics. For minor injuries, dehydration etc, not trauma.
I recently led a boys summer camp, coincidentally in the same town the girl is from.
We had a paramedic and a EMT on staff. They were pretty bored.
Dad trying to play the white privilege card.
He should be concerned about her ghetto attitude and desires.
Arson deserves a high bail.
Oregon lets firebugs out and they burn more stuff.
It seems that everybody at the riots is a "medic" Is she a nursing student or studying to be a doctor? If not, I don't see how her major in womyn's intersectional white man is bad studies qualify her to administer first aid to anyone. Let her rot in jail for awhile. It's the best lesson she will learn all year. Actions have consequences.
Maybe if daddy had spanked his little precious angel, instead of bribing her for her love....
Dad is a moron
https://www.mercersburg.edu/directory/staff
If my Mom found out I was wrong on an issue it had always been made clear she’d hang me out to dry....
To teach me a lesson..
It’s all fun-and-games until somebody gets slapped with a million-dollar jail-bond.
Funny how all these leftists that get tagged scream they were only paramedics
Let me also salute the judge. There is so much dark bail money out there for these criminals, it’s too easy for them to get out.
The ones that crack me up are the ones streaming on FB and Twitch calling themselves ‘independent media’ LOL no, you’re just an idiot rambling on a stream trying to earn Internet points and conveniently walking away when bad shit starts going down. Recently here in nearby Louisville KY, the LMPD started livestreaming protest response on FB and the reeeeeeeeeeeee from the protesters and streamers could have been heard from the International Space Station, it was glorious.
An Idiot raising an Idiot...
Bail is supposed to be sufficient to guarantee you will how up, nothing more.”
No, to a large degree bail is also determined by the seriousness of the charges.
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