We have been discussing the criminal cases emerging from incidents of rioting or arson around the country over these weeks of protest. One case out of Oregon however seems to capture the divisions in the country. Gabriel “Rico” Agard-Berryhill, 18, has been charged with throwing an explosive device. The primary witness against him is his grandmother, Karla Fox, 69, who is also a Trump supporter. What is most notable is the defense that Agard-Berryhill has raised, which is similar to the one used by Samantha Shader in New York. There is also an interesting twist on the basis for a potential obstruction or attempt destruction of evidence charge.
Fox recognized her grandson from television coverage showing the throwing of what police say was a makeshift bomb at the federal Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse in Portland. The reason is that he was wearing an olive vest with word “ICONS” that she bought for him. While she supports Trump, she wanted to protect him after he was hit by rubber bullets. She even posted a rave review of the vest online with the clothing site Hibbett: “I got this for my grandson who’s a protester downtown, he uses it every night and says it does the job.”
That is the review that Fox said her grandson later asked her to delete. That would seem an effort to destroy possibly incriminating evidence. It turned out that the grandmother was already going public with her identification.
Posting as “@TRUMPSGIRL2020,” Fox tweeted in response to the photo from protest: “This is my only grandson, I love him to death, and didn’t know he was going to do such a bad thing, I had been posting several things about the antifa and BLM, he knows I am against those riots bigtime … he chose his poison.”
In the meantime, Agard-Berryhill (who turned himself in) seemed to admit that he threw the device and also set a record for the use of the word “allegedly”: “The device I’ve been accused of allegedly throwing was allegedly given to me by an unknown protestor with full face coverings. I was allegedly told that it was a strobe firework that wouldn’t damage the building or harm anyone around it. Law enforcement has not contacted me for any alleged crime as of right now.” He told police that he was told to throw had “yellow cardboard packaging with blue stripes, was the size of a small ‘V8’ can, and had a green fuse.”
That is a familiar defense. Shader reportedly blamed three African Americans with giving her the Molotov cocktail that she used to torch a police vehicle in New York.
Fox’s rave review of the vest in prominently quoted in the charging documents. She said that her grandson said that he was engaged in peaceful protests. He was shown protecting a naked woman during the protests.
Agard-Berryhill is not only looking at a federal charge of arson but he was on probation for a felony conviction when he was a minor after spending the past two years at Rogue Valley Youth Correctional Facility in southern Oregon.
Headline in tonight’s Wall Street Journal: Portland Protests Turn Largely Peaceful
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Thank goodness they were never largely violent.
Scary reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report
You are a shameless communist; an unabashed parasite.
What were the American Founders?
They acknowledged the error of their British predecessors and designed definitive resolution of it.
They planned, legislated and funded compassionate repatriation for the benefit of shanghaied and enslaved Africans.
What are you doing in their country?
Did you not know the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the American Founders held dominion?
Did you not support the Constitution when you decided to stay – is that legal?
Did you desire “…fundamentally transforming…” the United States of America, which equates to nullifying the Constitution and seizing power?
Perhaps you’re a contrarian; desirous of adversity and abuse.
“Car 54, Where Are You?”
John Durham Where Are You?
In Keystone?
George – someone I was listening to in the last couple of days posited that Durham wants a couple of guilty pleas and then he will drop the sledge hammer.
Somehow, miraculously, magically, the media and Congress discovered and revealed every last morsel of the theft of a file from a cabinet called “Watergate.” Along comes the most prodigious and egregious political scandal in American history and the “authorities,” presumably the Deep Deep State, are irrevocably out to lunch; a two-martini lunch; a five-martini lunch.
Haha. More awesomeness; Please keep reporting in from the lunatic fringe….It gives me the fortitude to know that We True Patriots will be able to save my beloved country from the depredations of the gullible rubes, dupes, klan wannabees, pocket-traitors and grifters on the make.
this is to “today I discovered a twitter post from the guy on the grassy knoll” georgie / paulie
Marky Mark Mark – We??? You got a mouse in your pocket?
Cindy
Thought you might like this. It is the youth orchestra of Caracas playing Bacchanale. They are young and glowing with enthusiasm and do a wonderful job. Sad to think what must have happened to them under the socialist government. Awful. Some of the music was used in the movie, Lawrence of Arabia.
Young…Thank you so much!! Bless them for living in that environment and playing their hearts out, and so fantastically. That piece is difficult We performed it, too.
It’s a bear. Don;t you love the tympani at the end…And the oboist at the beginning…outstanding! They really are exceptionally talented. Paredes is a knock out conductor.
Compare these kids to BLM and antifa!! No contest on their value to mankind!
The “Danse Bacchanale” is from Saint-Saens’ opera, “Samson and Delilah”….his only really popular opera.
Thank you, again. Young…I had no idea about these brilliant little musicians…..and it’s so uplifting to know!
Young….Update! I am reading about what they’re doing now…….They lost many members who left the country in about 2015??.,but the vacancies were filled…..They are now called “Caracas Symphony Orchestra” Also there is an update for October 2020…..but it’s in French!
Cindy
It must have been great performing that piece and, like you, I really like the beginning and the end. Thanks for the follow up on what happened with them. I am very glad they escaped. I was imagining horrors for them. Also impressed with the conductor. I hope he got out or, at least, is treated decently.
Odd that the update would be in French.
Young….the reinvented orchestra was in L.A. this past February,,,,,,! El Sistema, the national music and education foundation/ organization for children is going strong, I think?? Depends on what you read.https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-03-21/el-sistema-mahler-streaming-concert-coronavirus-venezuela
On another note: I’ll take a half-dozen believers in American justice whom you likely characterize as “Antifa” (whatever that is) over a cool 1000 troglodytes who think as you do. You’re welcome. Thanks for playing and so sorry for your loss.
this is to “what is that ticking sound” cindie
Marky Mark Mark – Antifa does not believe in American justice, however some of them are going to feel American justice. Are you running over to Portland to defend the little snowflakes?
Paul…..that’s a great comment: “Antifa does not believe in American justice, however some of them are going to feel American justice.”
Mother of mercy…..is this the end of Rico?
MofoKnows – I have been following Andy Ngo and he has video of Rico “white knighting” for the nekkid Aphrodite. There are two things that become glaringly important in the video. 1)) She does not want to be “white knighted” 2 ) he cops a feel of her rear as payment for his worthy deed.
Paul…….Exemplary reporting!! Hope it wasn’t too taxing…:) LOL
Cindy Bragg – I follow several of the regulars in Portland, but no one had pictures from the front or side. And I and others, spent hours looking. 😉
LOL!
Does Rico have parents who are living?
The double-barreled name is what’s odd. His identified grandmother has, AFAICT, three children, all named ‘Fox’. She’s been divorced since 1977, and is supposedly resident in Portland suburbs. Her quondam husband appears to have died in the last 5-6 years, having lived in the southern part of the state for some time. The only thing I can figure is that this youth was given up for adoption, but some tie was maintained or re-established with the birth family. The thing is, this youth was born in 2002, and her children would have been 22-30 at that time, so an adoption proceeding does not seem at all likely.
Absurd…….Thank you! They’ve kept the social workers busy, no doubt.
Oh, yes, such very important information.
Get a life.
Anonymous……..awwww ….Are you still sweet on me? That’s adorable.
Cindy Bragg is also known as Cindy the Sycophant. But, hey, she’s changing the world one inane comment at a time.
And no, Cindy, no one is stalking you.
Cane him.
If Kamala Harris is a “natural born citizen,”
WHO is NOT a “natural born citizen?”
Off topic:. Rep. Clyburn said Trump is like Mussolini. This is a slam on Italians and very demeaning to Mussolini.
“A blindfolded monkey could throw a dart at a page of stock listings and do just as well, if not better, than a professional manager OR the S&P 500 Index.”
– Anonymous
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Who in their right mind would listen to a random 1/435th of a Congress of the lowest common denominators? Why do you think the American Founders established a restricted-vote republic, wherein the first restriction was the requirement that citizens be “…free white person(s)…” and the second included the general vote criteria imposed by states: Male, European, 21, 50 lbs. Sterling/50 acres? The “poor,” slaves, wives/mothers or foreign invader hyphenates were never intended to vote in the United States of America, 1789. The Founders failed to codify these restrictions because they could not conceive of these groups ever being allowed to vote by coherent and rational state officials – they were not familiar yet with the disease that is communism. Turnout was 11.6% by design and “original intent” in the first presidential election.
America has entered the political “Twilight Zone!”
“A blindfolded monkey could throw a dart at a page of stock listings and do just as well, if not better, than a professional manager OR the S&P 500 Index.”
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Why does the monkey have to be blindfolded? Isn’t being a monkey enough?
Hey I don’t write the lines, I just read them.
Gimme a break, will ya?
It’s a variation on the theme of “double-blind” research, I think.
Nonetheless, it’s a great admonition for investors.
Bottom line: Don’t trust the “experts,” dollar-cost-average into the Index, reinvest gains and dividends, and stay the course.
(John C. Bogle paraphrased – God rest is honorable soul).
Your white male power schtick runs foul and offensive as hell, George.
Those are comments from a garbage human.
Ew.
What is wrong with you? We’re you not held enough as a baby? Were you dropped on your head? Did you grow up in The Jim Crow south with racist parents?
Grow a heart.
Olaf– One can see from your remarks that you, by contrast, are a very classy person.
One who uses the term “classy” has none.
You dimwit! The monkey-throwing-darts meme is a classic in the financial realm. It predates even Black Lies Matter.
Please cite the Article and Section of the Constitution which mandates “charity” in general or the forcible imposition of your concept of morality, righteousness or “having a heart.”
You just proved that assimilation, like mixing oil and water, is futile; immutably impossible without the wholly unconstitutional political emulsifiers of generational welfare, affirmative action, quotas, food stamps, forced busing, rent control, minimum wage, social services (whatever that is), unfair Fair Housing, discriminatory Non-Discrimination, WIC, TANF, HAMP, HARP, HUD, HHS, Obongocare, etc., etc., etc.
The implication of your statement is that minorities must be granted quantifiable charity in order to subsist and persist. You would be correct, which is why Americans, before the tyranny and unintelligible aberration constituted by the successors of “Crazy Abe” Lincoln, planned, legislated and funded compassionate repatriation for freed slaves. The definitive resolution for Americans and freed slaves was and is compassionate repatriation. Has anyone ever heard of shanghaied “sailor” who did not long to return home? The Israelites were out of Egypt before the ink was dry on their release papers.
You can’t handle the truth. You can’t handle freedom and self-reliance. You can’t survive on merit. You can’t take care of yourselves without commandeering America’s wealth, culture and nature from irrationally guilt-ridden white people. What happens when America wakes up to your parasitic, insidious subterfuge and their own wide-eyed naivete and gullibility; their own foolishness?
If you are offended by the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the American Founders, why don’t you relocate to a more “lucrative,” for parasites, ideology and site, Cuba perhaps, or China. No, I know, the communist bastion of North Korea. I’m sure the party there will take excellent care of you, that is, in lieu of you taking care of yourself.
“Grow a heart.”
Is that an order, Comrade General Secretary O-laugh?
I would much rather be maximally self-reliant and grow a portfolio and estate.
Were minorities et al. to do the same, America would be Great Again, huh?
You’re a heartless racist George.
He also forgets the Federal Reserve easily the largest elephant in the extraconstitutional room .
That’s one way of looking at it. I find it very offensive Trump’s accused of being an Italian!