Judge orders "radicalized" former police officer to stay in jail until Capitol riot trial

[Eugene]

Source: Axios

Judge orders "radicalized" former police officer to stay in jail until Capitol riot trial

Rebecca Falconer
Wed, July 28, 2021, 10:06 PM·1 min read

A former Virginia police officer arrested for allegedly participating in the U.S. Capitol riot must remain in custody until his trial over evidence that he has illegally stockpiled weapons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Driving the news: U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper, in D.C., said in an order that Thomas Robertson was "further radicalized" after he was charged with breaching the Capitol building — noting that agents found a rifle, pipe-bomb making equipment at his home and evidence that he had purchased 37 guns online since his arrest.

• The 47-year-old, who was fired from the Rocky Mount Police after he was charged, was initially released in January.
• He was rearrested this month for violated a judge's order not to possess firearms while on pretrial release and also for breaking a federal law that prevents people under felony indictment from shipping firearms.

What they're saying: "The undisputed facts demonstrate a concrete risk that Robertson might participate in or provide material support to acts of ideologically motivated violence if released at this time," Judge Cooper wrote.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/judge-orders-radicalized-former-police-020654640.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Terrorists with 37 guns should remain in jail. Everyone else under a violence charge should

Everyone charged with violence in the Insurrection should have to surrender their weapons unless/until it is resolved in their favour. If they are found guilty, the violence is a felony and they will have to surrender them anyway.

[oldsoftie]

2. Tough shit, half wit. Enjoy your stay.

Hope its a long one

[bottomofthehill]

5. With you 100%

Hope he learns to enjoy life on the inside. He should stay there a long time.

[Ligyron]

3. A person can only shoot one gun at a time.

I think he was trying to outfit an army.

[GB_RN]

4. I Don't Mind Different Guns For Different Purposes...

A handgun for self defense (and target practice fun), a rifle and shotgun (or two of different gauges) for hunting different things, for example. I grew up around having a few guns like this, as my grandfather liked to go hunting on the weekends, was a member of a gun club and the NRA (keep in mind, this was in the 1970s-80s, when it was a gun safety organization, and not the front for the gun lobby and the terrorist organization it is now). Personally, I don't own any.

But you're right, this guy had what, 37? That's into dealer territory (yeah, you could also say collector, but I don't see this guy as a legit collector)...or has designs on something more nefarious. More than a few for said sporting purposes and you should have to have a dealer's license, IMO.

[Ligyron]

6. It would be helpful to know what type of weapon he was ordering online.

Because you’re right, a person could realistically carry a rifle and a pistol or two but that’s about it.

Plus he already had a gun collection at home With a variety of different calibers and gauges I assume.

If they’re all assault type rifles he ordered then we know what’s going on.

[oldsoftie]

9. Its to brag to his friends. i see it all the time.

They post pictures with all these different weapons because their friends think "Wow Jim's really cool! I wish I had that many!"
As you said, no real reason to have more than a few

And to add, it even makes you a more likely target. People know you have all of them & wait for the right time to break in and STEAL them to make a bunch of cash

[oldsoftie]

8. The ammo hoarders are even dumber

They keep buying and buying. If youve got 30000 rounds & a war DID break out, it'll either be over or you'll be dead before you can go thru anywhere NEAR that much

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Hey, everybody should have a hobby. Collecting baseballs, stamps, guns...

what's the difference? Can't use more than one at a time, and most just sit on the display.

Bomb materials are just a little bit different. Nobody sits back and admires fuses.

[GulfCoast66]

10. Except it's illegal to buy a firearm while under a felony indictment.

So that’s a problem.

And I’m a gun owner and hunter.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Well, there's that. And it's always illegal to buy Semtex and other such things.