Bail denied for UK man accused of trying to kill Trump

[TexasTowelie]

LAS VEGAS — A British man accused of trying to take a police officer's gun and kill Donald Trump during a weekend rally in Las Vegas will not be released on bail.

Federal Magistrate Judge George Foley said at a hearing Monday that Michael Steven Sandford, 20, was a potential danger to the community and a flight risk. Sandford, who wore leg irons and appeared to tremble during the court hearing, is charged with an act of violence on restricted grounds and was assigned a federal public defender.

He has not entered a plea.

Public defender Heather Fraley said Sandford appeared to be competent and hadn't been diagnosed with a mental illness but that has autism and previously attempted suicide. He was living out of his car, didn't have a job and was in the country illegally after overstaying a visa.

Read more: http://www.nwitimes.com/ap/politics/bail-denied-for-uk-man-accused-of-trying-to-kill/article_19e47587-65a8-552e-be97-9c4c410f12b9.html

[uppityperson]

1. Darn those illegals!

[TexasTowelie]

2. Make him build a wall and pay for it!!!11!!!1!!

[uppityperson]

4. UKers, comin' in and takin' all the jobs and killin' True Americans!!!!111

[TexasTowelie]

5. He is a secret Muslin, a rapist and a terrorist also!!!11!!!

They should have profiled him and made a sketch of his profile.

[uppityperson]

6. Omg! I've gotta buy a gun to pertect myself!!!

[librarylu]

7. And homeless to boot!

He planned it for a year but had to try to steal an officer's gun? Maybe since he's from Britain he thought guns are hard to get here.

[mwrguy]

3. Illegal? That would have been poetic.