• Drusas@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    While livestreaming on YouTube in the neighborhood, Taranto told followers that he was looking for “entrance points,” was going to find a way to the “tunnels underneath their houses” and wanted to get a “good angle on a shot,” according to court papers.

    So the guy openly admitted that he was trying to access the Obamas’ house and shoot someone. And all he gets is firearms charges. Our justice system is a joke.

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      Sometimes they have to start with the easiest charges just to justify holding him, and they will add the charges that are harder to prove later.

      Firearms charges in DC may not have to prove the intent to do anything. Simply having the LEOs testify to what they found might have been enough for charges.