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Mehserle Family Uses FBI to Imprison Infowars User
The Mehserle family actually goes online to see what people type about them, then uses the FBI to hunt down and imprison internet posters. Todd Mehserle, the father and role model of Johannes, had a man in Virginia imprisoned for 3 years simply for making an internet post. The Mehserle family is the perverse embodiment of police violence, death, and inhumane imprisonment of people who speak their mind.
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Man who posted threats against BART cop gets three years
Staff and wire reports
Posted: 12/15/2009 09:51:12 PM PST
Updated: 12/15/2009 09:51:13 PM PST
A Virginia man who posted several Internet threats against former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Jeffrey Weaver, 48, of Roanoke, posted three threats after Mehserle killed Oscar Grant III of Hayward in a scuffle on a BART station platform on Jan. 1.
Weaver wrote several messages threatening to kill Mehserle and other officers who have killed people, including a Virginia police officer who fatally Tased a 17-year-old boy.
In sentencing Weaver on Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Samuel Wilson imposed a harsher penalty than recommended, saying Weaver's threats demonstrated a level of "vileness."
Weaver admitted after his arrest in June to making the threatening remarks, saying he was "angry" when he wrote the comments on http://www.infowars.com, an FBI agent wrote in a report.
In the first post, Jan. 5, before Mehserle was identified as the officer who killed Grant, Weaver wrote, "(Expletive) the pigs and if I find out who the pigs is then I will kill the pig who killed him."
The message appeared in the comments section of an article on http://www.infowars.com describing Grant's killing.
Weaver also wrote another message in the same comments section minutes later. That message said:
"The best pigs are dead (expletive) pigs and if any of you Oakland or BART pigs (expletive) are reading this your
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time is coming you pigs- (expletive) sooner than you think and this isn't a threat it's a (expletive) promise (expletive)!! I'm curious to know what it looks like up close to see pigs (expletive) get their brains splattered against a wall."
Two days later, after Mehserle was identified as the officer who killed Grant, Weaver was accused of posting a third threat and including Mehserle's address in the post.
The FBI learned of the threats Jan. 8 when Mehserle's father, Todd, notified the agency's San Francisco bureau that threats to his son's life had been posted to the Internet and that his address was also posted, court records state.
An investigation traced the two messages to Weaver's home computer.
Man who posted threats against BART cop gets three years
Staff and wire reports
Posted: 12/15/2009 09:51:12 PM PST
Updated: 12/15/2009 09:51:13 PM PST
A Virginia man who posted several Internet threats against former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Jeffrey Weaver, 48, of Roanoke, posted three threats after Mehserle killed Oscar Grant III of Hayward in a scuffle on a BART station platform on Jan. 1.
Weaver wrote several messages threatening to kill Mehserle and other officers who have killed people, including a Virginia police officer who fatally Tased a 17-year-old boy.
In sentencing Weaver on Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Samuel Wilson imposed a harsher penalty than recommended, saying Weaver's threats demonstrated a level of "vileness."
Weaver admitted after his arrest in June to making the threatening remarks, saying he was "angry" when he wrote the comments on http://www.infowars.com, an FBI agent wrote in a report.
In the first post, Jan. 5, before Mehserle was identified as the officer who killed Grant, Weaver wrote, "(Expletive) the pigs and if I find out who the pigs is then I will kill the pig who killed him."
The message appeared in the comments section of an article on http://www.infowars.com describing Grant's killing.
Weaver also wrote another message in the same comments section minutes later. That message said:
"The best pigs are dead (expletive) pigs and if any of you Oakland or BART pigs (expletive) are reading this your
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time is coming you pigs- (expletive) sooner than you think and this isn't a threat it's a (expletive) promise (expletive)!! I'm curious to know what it looks like up close to see pigs (expletive) get their brains splattered against a wall."
Two days later, after Mehserle was identified as the officer who killed Grant, Weaver was accused of posting a third threat and including Mehserle's address in the post.
The FBI learned of the threats Jan. 8 when Mehserle's father, Todd, notified the agency's San Francisco bureau that threats to his son's life had been posted to the Internet and that his address was also posted, court records state.
An investigation traced the two messages to Weaver's home computer.
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Probably all of us have witnessed angry or aggressive personalities among us, such as fights among neighbors where people use "I'm going to kill you" in an unreal figurative sense. Everyone has seen drunks at a party who spark fist fights and issue threats. The typical response is that police aren't even called, or if they are, they just try to break it up and tell the people to sober up.
We should also be blaming infowars for not taking steps to protect it's users. Thank you indybay for doing this!