15-year sentence for shooter at Black Lives Matter protest

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

Updated 3:29 pm, Wednesday, April 26, 2017


MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man convicted in the shootings of five black men who were demonstrating against the police killing of a black man in Minneapolis has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.

Allen Scarsella's sentence Wednesday was short of the prosecution's request of 20 years. The 25-year-old Bloomington man was convicted of assault and riot after he injured the men at a Black Lives Matter protest following Jamar Clark's death in 2015.

Clark's death set off weeks of protests on Minneapolis' north side. Prosecutors presented evidence that Scarsella, who's white, was motivated by racial bias.

Scarsella told the court he would live with the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life, but he stopped short of an apology to those he wounded.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-who-wounded-5-at-police-shooting-protest-to-11099906.php

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Allen Scarsella

[sdfernando]

1. I don't think he will do well in prison. /nt

[DBoon]

2. I'm sure he will get many white supremacist tattoos while there

nt

[rogue emissary]

5. You're assuming he doesn't already have white supremacist tattoos.

Not all of them get their tattoos on their face or neck.

[snooper2]

12. doubtful, he looks pretty doughy and weak- he wouldn't do well "proving" himself to get in a click

will probably end up dead for saying something stupid to the wrong person

[still_one]

6. I hope he doesn't do well

[shenmue]

3. Piece of shit

[LuckyLib]

4. The father of one of the wounded said that had

he been African-American, he would have been charged with attempted murder rather than assault. Video and racist texts and Facebook rants sealed a conviction. He claimed he was videotaping the event. Yeah, right.

[Mickju]

7. He will be only 40 when he gets out...

or younger if he gets out early. That's not a very heavy price to pay for what he did.

[brush]

8. He may not make it out once the cons find out what he's there for.

[Mickju]

13. True

[Sunlei]

9. only 15 years for a person who intended to mass shoot murder as many people as he could.

[kwassa]

10. This sentence is way too light.

It does sound like he was undercharged.

[kimbutgar]

11. Another punchable face

He will probably come out of jail with Aryan tattooes and more of a white supremacist jerk. Unless he gets put in the intergrated part of the prison.

[countryjake]

14. Four masked white guys open fire on a BLM protest...

and this is the aftermath? The shooter is charged with assault/riot, and gets 15 years? All that the other three were charged with is rioting and aiding an offender?

Their actions were planned, they went to that demonstration wearing masks, armed, with multiple previous messages proving their hateful intent. Even Scarsella's good old buddy (a cop) testified that his friend believes, "If you're Black, you're bad."

I could say it's unbelievable, but, no, it's the same as it ever was.