A jury convicted the suspect in the federal trial over the violent hammer attack against Paul Pelosi at his and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home.
I don’t know anything about law but it does seem like politically targeted crimes should carry a harsher sentence in the same way that hate crimes do. It’s not just a violent act, but it’s also an attack on social order and democracy itself.
Protest is a political act. Trespassing is a crime. Should someone be sentenced to years in prison for protesting if they step off the sidewalk and onto private property?
You could limit it to violence, but again… There is a lot of potential for abuse.
I don’t know anything about law but it does seem like politically targeted crimes should carry a harsher sentence in the same way that hate crimes do. It’s not just a violent act, but it’s also an attack on social order and democracy itself.
I’d be very careful about that.
Protest is a political act. Trespassing is a crime. Should someone be sentenced to years in prison for protesting if they step off the sidewalk and onto private property?
You could limit it to violence, but again… There is a lot of potential for abuse.