White supremacist is guilty in Charlottesville parking garage beating of black man

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Washington Post

One of the white supremacists who viciously beat a black man inside a parking garage during last year’s “Unite the Right” rally here was found guilty Tuesday night of malicious wounding.

Jacob Scott Goodwin, 23, who wore a military tactical helmet and brandished a large shield during the Aug. 12 attack against DeAndre Harris, was convicted by a jury of nine women and three men.

The jury recommended a sentence of ten years, with the option of suspending some of the time and a $20,000 fine. The presiding judge, Richard E. Moore, will set the sentence on Aug. 23. When the court clerk read the jury’s recommendation, Goodwin’s mother let out a loud gasp.

The assault on Harris, 20, a former special education instructional assistant, was so ferocious that he suffered a spinal injury, a broken arm and head lacerations that required eight staples.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/white-supremacist-is-guilty-in-charlottesville-parking-garage-beating-of-black-man/2018/05/01/033396b4-4af9-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html

[irisblue]

1. Excellent

[iluvtennis]

8. +1

[RandomAccess]

64. Shaun King is responsible -- he mounted a campaign

starting almost right away, from his Twitter account to identify the attacker (and others), and this guy was fingered and finally arrested.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Hallelujah! . . . . nt

[Grassy Knoll]

3. Look At You Now Stupid Fuck...

[jmowreader]

4. Did his mom know her son had turned into a Nazi?

[SunSeeker]

5. It's a safe bet she is a racist as well. nt

[whathehell]

31. No iit's not -- .Trump aide Stephen Miller's parents are California Liberals

and there are others like them, so assumptions of that nature are not valid.

[SunSeeker]

37. Wrong. nt

[whathehell]

38. Maybe, but fairness demands we refrain from broad-brushing

and making blanket assumptions about people we don't know -- That's what Right Wingers do

[SunSeeker]

39. OFFS. I looked it up and the Millers were CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS.

Although recent media reports have suggested that Miller's parents were liberals typical of the progressive enclave of Santa Monica, members of the Jewish community insist otherwise. Steven Windmueller, a professor of Jewish Communal Service at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion who has known the Millers for many years ("a lovely couple" ), says their political leanings align closely with their son's. "They have been and are conservative Republicans," he says. One person acquainted with the Millers says they departed the Santa Monica Synagogue when it became clear they "weren't a good fit" with its reform-minded congregation.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-trump-adviser-stephen-miller-divided-a-santa-monica-synagogue-989250

[whathehell]

40. That's a first..Maybe we need to check more than one source

Could be true, but more than one have said otherwise...In any case, it's patently unfair to automatically demonize relatives and friends of wing nuts as "being the same"..I actually saw people on the internet calling Bill Cosby's wife an "enabler" and I fought them too.

[SunSeeker]

41. How about you look it up instead of accusing me of being unfair? nr

[whathehell]

42. How 'bout you just put me on Ignore if you

don't like my posts.

[SunSeeker]

43. I don't have anyone on Ignore. I don't ignore facts either.

Odd that you don't want to look up something you are so adamant about.

[whathehell]

45. Let me be your first!

Lol..I don't know how the words "Maybe we should check more than one source" fits anyone"s definition of "so adamant" but whatever.

[SunSeeker]

46. Seriously, why don't you look up the Millers?

[whathehell]

47. Seriously, I'll be happy to do that

if and when you check other sources...My suggestion DID include the word "we".

[SunSeeker]

48. Odd that you were willing to insult a fellow DUer as "unfair" before checking your Miller assertion.

I already looked it up and found a credible source. Your turn. You are the one who made the assertion, so you are responsible for backing it up. That's usually how it works around here. We are a fact-based community.

[whathehell]

58. Where did I "insult a fellow DUer"?

...speaking of being "fact based".

[SunSeeker]

65. You accused me of being "unfair."

When what I was stating was accurate.

[whathehell]

68. I said "it" was unfair

but if you want to call the whaaaambulance, I can wait.

[SunSeeker]

69. LOL. You're twisting so much it appears you're the one who need an ambulance.

[whathehell]

70. LOL..You don't even get the reference!

unless your literacy level is such you think "ambulalance" is spelled with a W.

[SunSeeker]

71. I got your lame reference, and your attempt to twist out of your insult of me.

All this time you've spent trying to insult me would have been better spent researching so you knew what you were talking about. Your attempt at a zinger is as weak as your grasp of the facts in this thread.

This thread is about a Nazi thug who nearly beat a black man to death, and you jumped in to object to any suggestion that his mother is racist. As you can see from what others have posted below, she is every bit the same piece of shit he is.

But you reserve your insults not for them but for someone pointing out what racist scum they are, calling me unfair, and now, illiterate.

[SunSeeker]

73. Wow, so you're still defending this racist thug's racist mom?

You insist that suggesting she is probably racist is "guilt by association," but ignore that facts and statistics, refusing to research the correlation (and causation) of racism in children.

Then there is the actual facts of this case. What part of her calling her son a "Political Prisoner" is not racist?

[whathehell]

74. Nice try..a little desperate but I expected that

Never defended "her"personally, just the right to be "presumed innocent until proven guilty"

The photo of the mother wearing her "political prisoner" T shirt hadv not yet been posted and our posts time stamp proves it. Try harder.

[SunSeeker]

75. No, you wrongly claimed it was "unfair" of me to suggest she was probably racist.

If you had done ANY research, you would have seen that her being racist is a fair assumption, based on statistics alone.

And it was certainly a safe bet in this case. Yup, that's her at 20:40 in the video doing a Nazi salute and shouting "Hail Victory" at a Nazi meeting.

[whathehell]

76. Lol...Let's hope you never serve on a jury.

since you dislike that "innocent til proven guilty thing" and no, it wasn't a "safe bet" until you saw the picture, and then it was no longer a "bet".

[SunSeeker]

77. Wrong again. I made my prediction about her racism knowing the statistics.

I did not see that video about her until after I made my initial statement. The video was posted in this thread after I made my post. Look at the time stamps.

[whathehell]

57. How about I don't?

[SunSeeker]

52. BTW, research indicates children's racism is strongly correlated to their mothers.

Interestingly, much more so than their fathers.

http://psychiatryfun.blogspot.de/2007/11/do-children-acquire-racism-from-their.html

[whathehell]

60. Children get more of EVERYTHING from their mothers.

including kindness and compassion, because they're the usual caregivers.

[LanternWaste]

54. Oddly enough, you make a blanket assumption to justify your stance against blanket assumptions.

Oddly enough, you make a blanket assumption to justify your stance against blanket assumptions.

I get it however... holding others to a higher standard than we hold ourselves to is delicious entertainment.

(rationalize distinction lacking relevant difference below...)

[George II]

7. She probably trained him.

[Major Nikon]

49. No probably about it. His parents should be in a cell also.

If anything they are more culpable than he is. They cultivated his hate from a young age. You'd be hard pressed to find bigger shitstains.

[George II]

51. Good catch, thanks.

[SunSeeker]

53. Ug. She's wearing a shirt that says her thug son is a "Political Prisoner."

Sick.

[Major Nikon]

66. That's some hard core assholery right there

She is completely oblivious to the reality she has culpability for her son’s actions.

[SunSeeker]

78. At 20:40 in the video, she does the Nazi salute and shouts "Hail Victory!"

[RockRaven]

11. I'd like to know

if she gasped when she saw what her son did to Mr. Harris.

If not, I'm all outta f*cks for her gasps.

[workinclasszero]

30. They usually are taught to hate at home

from dear old mom and dad.

[jmowreader]

55. Usually, but not always

In my family, our parents are Kennedy Democrats.

Oldest sister and her husband are Eisenhower Republicans. Her husband is a Marine veteran who was on embassy duty. (He still can’t understand how the Tehran embassy staff was held hostage; he got sent there after Saigon fell and knew all the escape routes.)

Middle sister is somewhere between Clinton and Obama in her politics. Her husband’s family cared nothing for politics and he still doesn’t, but he can’t stand Trump.

Then there is me, and you know me.

Brother is next, but will be handled last.

Little sister and her husband were radicalized in college. Imagine your standard hard-left bomb thrower, and you’re close. She stopped eating bananas to protest the exploitation of the workers. Donates lots to Planned Parenthood. Eats meat and can’t stand PETA, but runs a house of wayward kittens for a no-kill shelter in Houston. After the last hurricane, she ran a house of wayward co-workers for three weeks because she has a 15k natural gas generator and they didn’t have power.

And then there is brother. The only reason he hasn’t joined the fucking Klan is he’s never home when the meetings are. He’s like a Tasmanian Devil of hate...remember the old Warner Bros cartoon where Bugs is reading the Tasmanian travel guide and gets to the page that starts “Beware the Tasmanian Devil, a vicious brute with powerful jaws like a steel trap” and then goes into a very long list of all the things it eats? They could write one like that about my dickhead brother, and no one knows how he got that way...but I suspect he fell in with some skinhead-types at Camp Pendleton and was fucked up there. If I were to transcribe some of the conversations he’s had with my middle sister I’d be tombstoned from here for racist thoughts so I’ll spare you. Three of us won’t let him in the house. Young sister bought a house in a gated community that doesn’t allow trucks in so he couldn’t possibly visit. And mom still is in denial about how bad he’s gotten, but middle sister and I are trying to educate her. (The fact that he’s threatened to beat all of us up for insufficient love of Donald Trump is the least of his problems.)

Fun anecdote...the family (minus dickhead brother) were kidding around about what we’d do if we won some massively huge lottery...I explained my plan for national domination through commerce. Then I mentioned I’d need to start a trucking line but wouldn’t hire brother. “Why not?” Asks mother. “Because I have no interest in getting a call from the New Jersey State Police to come pick up my truck because your driver is in jail for murdering some random black guy who pissed him off.”

Real true story: the trucking line he was working for at the time asked him to pick up a driver at a truck dealership where his broken-down rig was and take him and all his stuff to their yard to get a new truck. When he discovered the driver was this nice young African-American kid who didn’t smoke, brother broke out the most redneck country tapes he had and chain-smoked for the three hours this poor guy was in the cab. And he was proud as hell for having done it!

I do not automatically believe his mom brought him up to be a racist. I don’t discount it either.

[workinclasszero]

56. Sure there are always exceptions I guess

My family was blue collar just squeaking by back in the 60's till Pops hit the road for another man's wife then the hard times really hit home.

But Mom and Dad never taught us to hate anyone of any race and that's the way we are today.

I do have one sister and her family that are Trump voters. Most Trump voters are white supremacists so I don't see how she supports that asswipe.

[George II]

6. Great. I wouldn't want to be him in a Virginia prison for one day, much less ten years.

He won't be able to have that helmet and shield to fend off his cellmate.

[SunSeeker]

9. Good. He's lucky he didn't get convicted of attempted murder.

What a fucking evil scumbag.

[secondwind]

10. Harsh penalties is the only way to deter these asshats.

Throw the book at him!!!!!! Excellent news.

[Major Nikon]

50. I don't agree

Harsh penalties are going to prove to be largely ineffectual just as they are with pretty much all other forms of criminality. There's already an enormous support network that has turned this shitstain in to a hero martyr.

This type of garbage needs to be addressed on multiple fronts.

[AllyCat]

12. File it under no $hit Sherlock.

Good news for a bad reason.

[raven mad]

13. Thanks for letting us know, Julian - this really feels like a great victory.

I'd have voted for public humiliation in stocks along with the 10 years/$20K, but then, I'm mean.

[Hulk]

14. As long as he's NOT a cop...there's a chance for justice.

Glad justice was brought to this piece of shit. Now...if we can just administer the same kind of justice when the thug wears a badge. Murder is murder...assault is assault. Badge or no badge.

[safeinOhio]

18. ...

Yes, what he said.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Good. I will NOT forget that the victim who was brutalized, was himself arrested

put on trial, and eventually acquitted, while this trash went scott free and was on the run until he was finally found. Lock him up!

[rusty quoin]

16. Good

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Civil suit should follow

His actions maimed someone for life. Those wounds heal but they will always be there, and will involve some degree of pain

[workinclasszero]

29. Totally agree

He ruined that poor guys health, he should pay for the pain and suffering he imposed on an innocent man.

[safeinOhio]

19. Just for fun

make him take a DNA test

[demmiblue]

20. K&R

[Yonnie3]

21. The second trial in this assault begins today in Charlottesville.

Alex Ramos will face a jury in Charlottesville today. I will post information in the Virginia group as I did yesterday.

There will be two more trials this summer in relation to this assault.

James Alex Fields' murder trial is scheduled for late November.

There are also multiple civil suits against militias and individuals in relation to the events of August 11 and 12 in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

In Charlottesville, it continues ...

[Mc Mike]

22. Thanks, Y3, and Julian for the OP.

Good to see some nazi cockroaches get their comeuppance. It scares the rest of the freaks, makes them think twice before throwing any more big high profile nazi jamborees.

[liberalhistorian]

59. I hope the same fucking idiot

prosecutor who accepted the charges against, and prosecuted, the viciously-beaten victim, is sufficiently chastened. Actually, he should have been fired.

[Yonnie3]

62. I think it was good that he could clear his name.

This makes the cases stronger against the real attackers,

[liberalhistorian]

63. I agree completely, but

I'd like to see that prosecutor disciplined.

[SunSeeker]

67. If there was ever a case of abuse of prosecutorial discretion, that was it.

[RandiFan1290]

23. Good

Nice to see republicon nazi thugs going to prison.

[RandiFan1290]

24. * at a trump nazi rally. nt

[heaven05]

25. I will

wait for the sentencing hearing before I celebrate this as a victory.

[GulfCoast66]

26. Excellent news and good for the jury.

We need prosecutors to find a way to charge as many of the Alt-right assholes as possible. Preferably on any kind of Felony charge possible as It makes firearm ownership illegal for them for life.

Taking away their ability to own guns hurts some of these racist worse than prison. It removes what defines them.

[FSogol]

27. Awesome. One less Trump voter. n/t

[workinclasszero]

28. Rot in prison where you belong

Nazi POS!

Your god emperor Trump sends his thoughts and prayers asshole!

[lagomorph777]

32. Very fine person.

Hope he spends lots of time in a very fine prison.

[workinclasszero]

33. Here is the assault the nazi POS is going to jail for

It's a wonder the poor man was not killed in this vicious gang attack

[Grins]

34. But...but...but... there "were very fine people on both sides"!

15 Aug 2017:

Reporter: You said there was hatred, there was violence on both sides. Are there...

President Dennison...uh, I mean Trump: Well, I do think there's blame ...I think there's blame on both sides...you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.

[Nitram]

35. Adding insult to injury, the nazis sued the victim, claiming he had attacked them first.

Harris was arrested and jailed before Goodwin was.

[SunSeeker]

44. Those fucking Nazis should all have been charged with filing a false police report.

[Danascot]

36. I wondered about the other attackers

The article later says,

"Three other men have been also been arrested in connection to the attack on charges ranging from felonious assault to malicious wounding: Alex Michael Ramos of Georgia, whose trial began Wednesday; and Daniel Borden of Ohio and Tyler Watkins Davis of Florida, who face trials this summer."

[Yonnie3]

61. Info

There will be two more trials this summer in relation to this assault. June 5 is the next trial

James Alex Fields' murder trial is scheduled for late November.

There are also multiple civil suits against militias and individuals in relation to the events of August 11 and 12 in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.