All 13 demonstrators pleaded guilty Monday afternoon in Richmond General District Court as part of a plea agreement.
While the judge allowed some to report to jail in December — at least one woman was granted a delay because she has upcoming college exams — others were immediately escorted off by sheriff’s deputies to begin serving jail time.
“It was rush hour. They put themselves in danger, and they put other people potentially in danger, so we thought that five days in jail was an appropriate punishment,” said Richmond Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Davis Powell, the prosecutor in the cases.
Powell said in an interview afterward that the defendants’ behavior was “rather irresponsible,” adding that while demonstrators have the right to protest peacefully, “stopping rush-hour traffic is an entirely different thing. ... We thought that warranted punishment.”
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13 comments:
And take away their momma's internet. They dont deserve it. Useful idiots. Maybe bubba at the county lock up will show them how blacks love really matters.
Hey, it as rush hour! Why delay ant sentencing? The rush hour folk don't care!
Trump will give them 50 days.
good, but not enough. 30 days in the hole.
Good start. Maybe the next judge will give the next group of lawbreakers 10 days.
It has begun!
I see a black tropper. All the protestors appear to be white?
They better not step out on the freeway in front of me, I would drive over them! That is what everyone should do, it is against the law to block a roadway and pests-redians on a freeway are also against the law.
What happened to 30 days?
Should have been sentenced to 95 days since it happened on I95.
Since the protestor's are blocking other's "freedom of movement" then they are in a way, wrongfully imprisoning those people who are trying to get to and from work or any other destination as far as that goes. They should get 30 days.
Good that is where they belong
Remember that song, 30 days in the hole?
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