Lawyer for eye-gouging MAGA rioter whines that client is in jail w/people who did 'inner-city crimes

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Brad Reed
April 09, 2021



An attorney representing a MAGA rioter who infamously gouged a Metropolitan Police officer's eyes argued on Friday that his client doesn't deserve to be held in a cell with people who have committed "inner-city crimes."

The Washington Post's Rachel Weiner reports that an attorney representing retired New York City Police officer Thomas Webster argued to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia that his client should not be detained in his current conditions, which he described as a "dormitory setting."

The attorney went on to say that his client was not used to living in conditions that are usually reserved for people who commit "inner-city crimes."

"For a middle aged guy whose never been arrested before this has been a shock for him," said the attorney, who also touted his client's "sparkling" record as a New York cop.

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[Trueblue1968]

1. hey you traitor pig... you're breaking my heart with your whining.

JAIL TIME FOR HIM 15 YEARS !!!!!

[greenjar_01]

2. Translation: "He's a middle aged white Republican...you can't put him in jail with the blacks"

These people are total fucking slime.

[thucythucy]

18. Just imagine the kind of "policing" this guy did

as a cop in New York City.

[onetexan]

37. Sounds about right. He doth protest too much.

Hope the inner city folks in the slammer teach him a thing or 2 about diversity. That or inner city justice that MAY convince his MAGAT brain he's worse than they are.

[Hekate]

3. So he's the guy who's whining.His crime makes me literally nauseous, it's so viciously premeditated

The bastard blinded a man with his own hands. I hope he is so old and decrepit when they let him out that he has to be put in home for the terminally senile.

[empedocles]

6. 'The bastard blinded a man with his own hands.'

[mobeau69]

4. Smallest violin ever:

[gratuitous]

5. Middle aged? He's 54

I don't think he's going to make it to 108.

[BlueStater]

15. A hard-looking 54 at that.

He could pass for 65 easily.

[kcr]

23. 54 isn't elderly

It's still considered middle-aged.

[d_r]

27. You better believe it

(bday 53 coming up)

[2naSalit]

7. Welcome to...

The hell you created for yourself, asshole. I hope you feel that hopeless and miserable every day for the rest of your wretched existence.

[Haggard Celine]

8. If one of those Inner City guys had gouged

a cop's eyes, he wouldn't have made it to the jail. That's the difference between him and the Inner City guys. He's still alive after committing a crime that they would have been lynched for. And nobody would care.

[Claire Oh Nette]

33. This

He's a cop. He blinded a fellow cop. He'd be right there calling for maximum punishment.
Bummer about the dorm for criminals, you seditious phuck.
rot in jail.

[blueinredohio]

9. Thoughts and prayers.

[Coventina]

10. I say let him go free......

Just as soon as he willing to have one of his eyes gouged out.

[Marie Marie]

22. An eye for an eye....

[Coventina]

29. What do you want to bet this creep is an Evangelical Christian?

He should welcome it!

[Marie Marie]

30. Oh I'm sure he did this in the name of his Jeezus but forgot that part about

not smiting thy neighbor's eye (or however that goes). Trying to gouge out someone's eye is barbaric - hope he rots in jail and his Hell.

[onetexan]

38. Oh i dont doubt idiot is a christofascist

He sounds like one of those trumpian flagbearers who go to church on sundays then put up their indecent flags (with F..biden) on display. So nauseating to see such display of mendacity but that is nearly half the country unfortunately.

[Takket]

11. if he's trying to argue his client is MORE dangerous than those around him, I agree

i'd rather be in jail with some kids that sold drugs and stole some hub caps than a treasonous, drumpf loving, cop assaulting piece of scum sucking shit. but that's just me.

[struggle4progress]

12. "It's not like I was taking out the trash while black"

[jmowreader]

13. Since his client is in jail for inner city crimes, what's the problem?

[niyad]

14. "whose never been arrested"??? Geez, could the person who typed this at least learn grammar?

[niyad]

16. Pretty sure that in all my years, I have never heard of a class of crime called "inner city". Is

this some special, new, legally-recognized classification?

[Hekate]

20. Nah. It's just code for ...

...Black. How dare the Law do that to him?

[niyad]

42. Absolutely outrageous, I know! After all, all he did was participate in an insurrection, and maim

a guardian of our Capitol. He should be getting a medal, not prison.

[TomSlick]

17. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

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[Hassin Bin Sober]

31. I came here to post this knowing it would be posted.

[TomSlick]

32. Bwaaaahhh.

I'll let you have the next one - if you move quickly enough.

[C_U_L8R]

19. Then put him in the hellpit reserved for traitors

[Volaris]

21. This has been a shock for him.

Thought that's exactly how that's supposed to work. Pretty sure the courts opinion is going to be 'Sorry, not sorry.'

[femmedem]

24. I think his shock doesn't compare to the shock of the man whose eyes he gouged.

I'm not surprised this guy is a racist, but I'm surprised his lawyer thinks it's a good idea to make racist comments on his client's behalf.

[bottomofthehill]

25. Fuck him

Get used to it, rot in jail you piece of shit. Hopefully you will be with inner city crime people for about 20 years.

[Baked Potato]

26. Looks real boozy.

[luckone]

28. Lawyer wtf "dormitory setting" and racist appeal to the court scary "inner city crimes" wth

He is a racist deranged violent monster admitting his surroundings are freaking him out .
Other prisoners are probably afraid of him !
No country club white collar crime prison please for this garbage if that’s where he thinks he belongs

[captain queeg]

34. Inner city crime, like shoplifting a bottle of cheap wine

Yeah that’s way worse that beating a man and gouging his eyes while committing treason.

[JustAnotherGen]

35. Ahem

His attorney expects us to feel bad for someone who gouged a human beings eyes?

That's far worse than petty theft.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

36. Like passing a counterfeit $20 bill? Supposedly?

[onetexan]

39. Bingo!

[Norbert]

40. You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes

[Mysterian]

41. The U.S. Capitol is inner city, dumbass lawyer

Your client committed an "inner-city" crime, idiot.

[Maru Kitteh]

43. He committed crimes in the inner city, so it seems

he's in exactly the right place.

[GoodRaisin]

44. Well, now he is a middle aged criminal who assaulted someone and he

needs to be taken off the streets to protect society from his out of control anger. I hope he gets plenty of time for his anger to settle down.