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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMan who drew bow and arrow on Salt Lake City protesters charged with three felonies
Brandon E. McCormick has said he showed up at Saturdays downtown protest, armed with a bow and arrow, to protect police from unruly demonstrators.
Now the 57-year-old Taylorsville man, who has spent nearly two decades of his life behind bars in California and once was convicted of battery against a public safety officer, faces three felony counts for, widely shared video has shown, aiming his weapon at protesters.
All three counts are Utahs lowest grade of felony. Each is punishable by up to five years in prison. McCormick was also charged with a misdemeanor count of threatening or using a weapon in a fight. That count carries up to a year in jail.
The Salt Lake County district attorneys office, which filed the charges, also asked that a warrant be issued for McCormicks arrest with bail set at $100,000. There was no record of McCormick being booked into the county jail as of 6:30 p.m.
McCormick created one of the most-talked-about scenes on a day when hundreds of protesters gathered near Salt Lake City Hall and the downtown library to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and against racism and police violence. He parked his car in front of the library on a corner where many demonstrators had gathered and exited the vehicle.
In a posted video, McCormick, responded to a stranger who asked him if he calls himself an American with: Yes, Im American. All lives matter.
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Man who drew bow and arrow on Salt Lake City protesters charged with three felonies (Original Post)
CatWoman
Jun 2020
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jpak
(41,758 posts)1. Good, rot in jail POS
Yup
louis-t
(23,295 posts)2. And he got the crap kicked out of him, toooo.
And his car got burned up. So, all in all, a very productive day for Mr. trumpie butt kisser.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)4. Yeah