Warrant for journalists from Jerry Falwell Jr. came from Liberty University's own police

[SheltieLover]

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/warrant-for-journalists-from-jerry-falwell-jr-came-from-liberty-universitys-own-police/|

Warrant for journalists from Jerry Falwell Jr. came from Liberty University’s own police
Published 10 hours ago on April 8, 2020By Sarah K. Burris

A right-wing commentator interviewed Jerry Falwell Jr. during his show Wednesday, where Falwell said that there were two arrest warrants open for reporters who came onto Liberty University’s campus.

Upon further examination of the warrant, the police officer who signed the warrant was Detective/Sgt. A.B. Wilkins 206 LUPD. The LUPD is not the Lynchburg Police Department nor is there a Sgt. or Detective A.B. Wilkins. It’s the police department under the authority of Liberty University.

Warrants are typically issued by a judge who directs an arresting officer to execute the warrant. No judge appears to have signed the warrant nor is there a judge mentioned, though the warrant does cite the Lynchburg, Virginia courthouse. The warrant also doesn’t appear to be certified by the clerk that it was submitted to the court. Clerks generally stamp documents when received.

More at link, including photos of the warrants.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Sounds like fraud or extortion

What's the penalty for impersonating law enforcement?

On edit: it looks like Kang Lee (signed doc middle left) is a real magistrate in Virginia. Is the article mistaken or is the signature a forgery?

Oh wait. On further edit: Look at the two docs. Same supposed magistrate - Kang Lee. Two very different signatures. Uh oh.

[DFW]

19. They counted on no one checking

"You don't need to see his identification. This isn't the judge you're looking for. Move along."

[JHB]

2. So it's a fraudulent warrant?

If it's being presented as if it's a court document when it's not, isn't that fraud?

[malaise]

4. Well the entire university is a fraud

so there's that

[JHB]

5. True, but for that they filled out the required paperwork to call themselves one

Not so, here.

[malaise]

6. True

Lock him up!

[Captain Zero]

11. Impersonating a judge/court ??

Issuing a warrant without authority to do so?

[FiveGoodMen]

26. If only there were actual laws in effect

[Squinch]

3. Isn't that illegal?

[MerryBlooms]

8. You'd sure think so. Seriously, this republican shit just gets weirder every day.

[stillcool]

14. yeah, really. What law?

[Zambero]

7. A Falwell Fake

Very much in "character".

[Chainfire]

9. It is private property

They can use trespass laws to forbid anyone from legally entering. Sorry, but that is the way it works.

If the campus was in Florida, they could use "reasonable force" to detain trespassers until they were arrested . Trespass laws vary state to state, so I have no idea what their local laws are.

[stillcool]

15. and they issue their very own special warrant?

Is that the way it works?

[ck4829]

17. It's MARTIAN LAW, you can issue warrants and declare war from your home

[stillcool]

28. thank you! How do I register?

[uponit7771]

10. Justice would be a 50 million dollar lawsuit against this college for this bullshit

[lpbk2713]

12. They're consistent. They're always full of shit.

Just because they can make their sheeple always fall for their bullshit they
are quick to assume the rest of the world will. These clowns are pathetic.

[Marcuse]

13. Why use a fake warrant? Just have the offending journalists struck by lightning.

[DFW]

16. Especially considering their claimed "in" with the lightning striking authority... n/t

[SeattleVet]

24. Thor?

A brief conversation on the morning after the orgy of the gods...

"Who are you?"
"I am Thor!"
"You think *you're* thore...I'm tho thore I can't even thtand to pith!"

(OK, I'll leave now...)

[hunter]

18. I thought they were only authorized to cover up campus rapes.

Silly me.

[Midnight Writer]

20. Churches with their own police and judges? What could go wrong? (cough..Inquisition..cough)

[dalton99a]

21. Kick

[struggle4progress]

22. Phony warrants! They sound like sovereign citizen crowd!

[KayF]

23. reminds me of Bill O'Reilly and his Fox Security

https://www.mediamatters.org/bill-oreilly/olbermann-oreillys-fox-security-threat-bill-thinks-he-has-his-own-police

[Takket]

25. this is a crime. Faking a warrant is illegal. When will Falwell be arrested?

[FiveGoodMen]

29. When pigs fly

Or the even more unlikely event that America regains its sanity.

[gibraltar72]

27. It was from Gawd.