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Minnesota: Left-fascists who violently assaulted anti-Sharia marchers get light sentences

Oct 30, 2017 3:38 pm By Robert Spencer

You have to read this report from Minnesota Lawyer carefully in order to tell, but all of the people who were sentenced here were Leftists who gratuitously attacked the anti-Sharia demonstrators.

“The brawling began, records indicate, when a counterdemonstrator identified as Drew Albert Cleland, 31, of Big Lake, took a flying leap and delivered a kick to an anti-Sharia protester’s chest….Cleland initially pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor counts of fifth degree assault, obstructing the legal process and disorderly conduct. On Oct. 10, he pleaded guilty to one charge—obstructing the legal process. The others were dismissed. He was sentenced to 30 days in the Ramsey County jail, with 28 days stayed for a year. He was assessed $136 in court fees.”

If an anti-Sharia demonstrator had randomly kicked Drew Albert Cleland, do you think he would have gotten 30 days in jail with 28 stayed, and $136 in court fees? I don’t either. In fact, if an anti-Sharia demonstrator had kicked one of the Left-fascists, it would have made national news and he would be facing years in prison, to serve as a warning to other “right-wing extremists.”

Note that this report characterizes ACT, not those who attacked the ACT marchers, as “extremist.”

When these Left-fascist thugs get the Sharia society they want, they might discover that they don’t like it very much. But by then it will be far too late.

“Four of six sentenced after anti-Sharia protest brawling,” by Kevin Featherly, Minnesota Lawyer, October 25, 2017 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):

Sentences were handed down this month against four of six protesters who fought with police and other demonstrators during a June 10 clash at the Capitol. Two others await pretrial hearings scheduled in the coming weeks.

The fighting stemmed from the “March Against Sharia,” one of more than two dozen similar U.S. protests against Islamic law held that day. It was organized by ACT for America, a group founded in 2007 that reputedly is among the nation’s largest anti-Muslim groups. It is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as extremist.

Its demonstration began inside the Capitol, drawing only about 20 to 30 participants, according to court documents. Outside the Capitol at the same time, a larger counterdemonstration was under way with an estimated 150 to 200 participants, according to police.

Court records indicate that anti-Sharia protesters exited the Capitol through its west-side doors against the advice of state troopers on the scene. They began a march along Martin Luther King Blvd., moving south from Aurora Ave. That attracted the attention of the larger protest group, officials indicated.

Near the main entrance of the Capitol, state troopers tried to separate the groups, according to court records. But some members of the larger, counterprotest rally ran around the cordon and began clashing with anti-Sharia demonstrators.

The brawling began, records indicate, when a counterdemonstrator identified as Drew Albert Cleland, 31, of Big Lake, took a flying leap and delivered a kick to an anti-Sharia protester’s chest. Cleland ran away, according to his criminal complaint, but returned within five minutes. Despite resisting, he was eventually arrested.

Cleland initially pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor counts of fifth degree assault, obstructing the legal process and disorderly conduct. On Oct. 10, he pleaded guilty to one charge—obstructing the legal process. The others were dismissed. He was sentenced to 30 days in the Ramsey County jail, with 28 days stayed for a year. He was assessed $136 in court fees.

Others charged in the melee included:

  • Maxwell Hunter Lindusky, 18, of St. Louis Park. He was charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly jabbed a 4- to 5-foot pole into the stomach and chest of a state trooper outside the Capitol. The complaint does not indicate which protest group he was part of. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 10 and was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail, with 28 days stayed for a year. He was assessed $136 in fees.
  • Ian Matthew MacDonnell, 28, of Minneapolis. He was charged with disorderly conduct after video showed him squaring up to fight another protester. He charged at least one protester and threw a punch at another, but it was not clear from court records which group he was part of. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 6 and was sentenced to 30 days in county jail, with 27 days stayed for one year. He was assessed $136 in fees.
  • Caleb Emerson Murphey, 36, of Minneapolis. He faced misdemeanor counts of fifth-degree assault and disorderly conduct and was identified as a counterprotester. Murphey was seen bumping chests with an anti-Sharia rally-goer and refusing to let the other person pass. “It appeared he was trying to start a fight,” his criminal complaint says. He pleaded guilty to the second count on Nov. 10 and the assault charge was dismissed. He was sentenced to 30 days in county jail—28 days stayed for a year—and assessed $136 in fees.
  • Nicholas Michael Sullivan Kelley, 18, of Nerstrand. He was charged with obstructing the legal process after allegedly attempting to pull a detained protester from troopers’ grasp. He has entered a not guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge and has a pretrial hearing scheduled for Nov. 2 before Ramsey County District Court Judge Timothy T. Mulrooney.
  • John Allen Meyer, 19, of St. Cloud. He faces a misdemeanor charge of obstructing the legal process after allegedly interfering with another protester’s arrest. He has pleaded not guilty. His pretrial hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30 before Ramsey County District Court Judge Sara Grewing.

Initial media reports indicated that a seventh person, Robert Daniel Horacek, 38, of Zimmerman, also was arrested. However, neither court records nor the city attorney’s office indicate that a person by that name was charged.

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  1. gravenimage says

    Oct 30, 2017 at 3:57 pm

    Minnesota: Left-fascists who violently assaulted anti-Sharia marchers get light sentences
    ……………………..

    Useful idiots…

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 2:01 pm

      Yes, they are that. But these idiots, who’ve made themselves useful to the Moslems, have the silent support of the majority of Minnesotans, who fervently believe in globalism, white guilt, victimism, and reverse racism. I never forget that the Catholic League competed with the Lutheran Brotherhood competed a few decades ago to bring in the most Somalis, not only for the $25K per head federal prize, but also for the sanctimony of saving Moslems.

      Saving them from whom? Nobody thought to ask that, they were black and therefore natural victims. Reverse racism is one of the most powerful forces in Western politics today. Now they’re even getting violent in their previously implicit support of Islamic law.

    • Charles says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 7:31 pm

      I am pleased to see the term Left-Fascists being used more and more on this Site as opposed to just “Left”.
      Perhaps, after my posting on my Left brother who joined the French Resistance in 1944 as well as my note on the 1937 Left democrats who fought (some from Canada) against Franco’s Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, and Mussolini’s Fascist pigs.
      Not to forget, also. Canadian hero Norman Bethune who, a certified Leftist, knowingly (he was a practiced physician and surgeon) gave his life on the battle-field (surgical blood poisoning) fighting crypto-Fascist Tchang Kai Chek’s goons.

  2. St. Manuel II Palaiologos says

    Oct 30, 2017 at 4:05 pm

    Having lived in Minneapolis, I assure you, a lot of the people in that city are radical, violent, Marxists. You can find some kind of Marxist slogan on every corner.

    • StacyGirl says

      Oct 30, 2017 at 6:58 pm

      Yea verily. I was back in the twin cities and it’s a third world country. You know in the 80s it was Lutherans and Democrats. Now it’s somalia

  3. Lydia says

    Oct 30, 2017 at 4:21 pm

    Fascism is not good. But sharia is also really bad. It’s like potayto, potahto, either way it’s a dictatorship!

    • Lydia says

      Oct 30, 2017 at 4:22 pm

      … Marxism too!

      Just give me Democracy, thank you!

    • StacyGirl says

      Oct 30, 2017 at 6:59 pm

      They’re not fighting fascism anyway. They are anarchists.

  4. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 30, 2017 at 6:27 pm

    “Light sentences”? Of course, since courts in Minnesota are already deluged with similarly oriented fascists in togas pretending to be “lawyers” and “judges,” it should surprise no one. According to the rule: fascist will always support another fascist.

  5. Kay says

    Oct 30, 2017 at 11:16 pm

    I see the photos and they look like the same people who were tearing up my city. Maybe someone is creating orcs.

    • Wyldeirishman says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 7:31 am

      Which makes George Soros Saruman, I suppose. And perhaps transforms Berkley into Isengard for good measure.

  6. Shmoovie says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 12:54 am

    They’re unaware of which group Maxwell Landusky was with when he attacked a state trooper in the chest with a 4-5 foot pole?
    Imagine the violence, look at his picture and guess.
    The Mpls metro area is crawling with these critters, ready to bash someone’s head or block a freeway to prove their tolerance and love of humanity.

  7. Vann Boseman says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 7:23 am

    Crime and punishment is a hard subject for me to fully understand. Trial by Jury by Spooner has helped me cope with how the system should work and often does work when it is at its best.

    In this case, what if the judge in this case was killed and I was on the jury to determine if his killer was guilty of murder? It would be wrong of the killer to have killed the judge, but would I be able to take it a step further and say that the killer committed a crime? I do not know the answer. I think that if fellow jurors could not convince me that killing this particular judge was a crime, then not knowing would mean that I would not say that the killer committed a crime.

    The nature of trial by jury involves an approach that involves what has been termed a secret right going all the way back to the Magna Carta. Jefferson rightly understood trial by jury is one of the rare but necessary democratic checks on government power in an otherwise republican form of government. A juror in our system has the moral right and obligation to find “not guilty” of a crime when such a view is appropriate. In our present, this may not always be a legal right, but it is a right I claim as an American.

    This judge released people into society that are dangerous. That is not ok with me. Probably, there is nothing I can or would do about it. I have never served on a jury though I have been summoned numerous times. I do not think judges let people like me serve on juries. For me, I am just acting in a way that if everyone else acted the same way, the world would be better.

  8. WorkingClassPost says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 9:02 am

    I don’t get USA.

    In a country where hot coffee that’s ‘too hot’ costs $640,000 (reduced from $2.7m), attacking another person with intent to harm costs $136.

    I know, one is corporate and probably negligent blah blah, but wtf is going on?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants

    • Sons of Liberty says

      Oct 31, 2017 at 1:10 pm

      ” but wtf is going on ” ,…Marxists and socialist liberals in the legal system, the schools and the media ! This is why our Founding Fathers Republic , the Constitution and the rule of law is being undermined from our schools to the courts . Welcome to the incipient lunacy of a Marxist Democrat run society…. where up is now down and where ANYONE IN THE WORLD now has the RIGHT TO COME HERE and to hell with the Constitution and the rights of American Citizens . Yes ,….MARXIST DEMOCRAT JUDGES have decided that the US Constitution was written NOT FOR LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS …but FOR THE RIGHTS OF ANYONE ANYWHERE no matter what DANGER they pose to our REPUBLIC.

  9. MFritz says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 10:48 am

    Useful idiots always get light sentences.

  10. HN says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 11:18 am

    Seditious shari’a supporters should go march… in Syria or Somali, Afghanistan, Iran etc, prior to demonstrating in the US. Let them get a real taste of freedom.

    There’d be fewer fascists then…

  11. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Oct 31, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    Leftist SJWs are mindless entitled little babies who want to continue extorting free stuff from Daddy forever.

    But their laziness isn’t the real problem here – it’s that they are encouraged by politicians and media.

    Politicians in Western democracies are all equally corrupt.

    Remember when propagandists encouraged all the women to enter the workforce, demanding equality; saying it was “unfair” and men were enslaving them?

    That one scam garnered the business community double the number of available workers in their collective labour pool, and at half the former wages.

    So what if suddenly Canadians had to have less children because all the potential mothers were at work with dad in stead of at home raising them?

    Well, as usual, they are again failing upwards: the lack of replaceable labour to keep their pension pyramid schemes afloat, means they now again “have to” import huge numbers of cheap-labour muslims from their 3rd-world slave-pens to replace us, again doubling the number of workers while halving our wages.

    And their pet politicians & media who slander and shame us into Submitting to our replacement get promised big fat pension augments on their director boards.

    Replacing their largest and most easily-cut cost – worker’s salaries – is what’s really behind the globalist corporazi oil-banksters “pity the migrants, you racists!” scam. Always follow the money. And of course the socialist labour union dupes, being in a symbiotic relationship with the globalists, support their own suicide.

    Rinse and REPEAT endlessly!

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