Racist extremists charged today!
November 30th, 2015
Thanks to the STrib’s Libor Jany for posting the Statement of Probable Cause for Allen Scarsella. The four are Scarsella, Joseph Backman, Nathan Gustavsson, and Daniel Macey. Hennepin Co. Atty. Freeman’s press conference starts soon.
It looks like all four will be charged. I’m very glad to see the County Attorney handling this quickly. I believe they’re also looking at whether to charge this as a hate crime. Given all the video and online threads, it’d be pretty hard to show it wasn’t a hate crime.
From Reuters:
This is progress, a start.
From the press conference (close, but not necessarily verbatim):
“These are sick people…”
“These four have been in custody… we believe there may be another, and that’s why this is ongoing.”
“If you’re a racist, you’re a racist, and that’s just not acceptable.”
“For people to talk about about their fellow human beings in that manner is simply not acceptable.”
“First appearance is tomorrow, we’ve asked for half a million dollars for Scarsella, and for a quarter million for the others.”