California Man Blows Up Courthouse To Avoid Going To Court

Published Oct 10, 2024, 11:48 AM

California man accused blowing up courthouse on his court date + more 

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Well, First of all, I have seen several things in my forty years of life. You are my OG. You know, I know you've been You've seen many things. But I know many people with gunstarnge.

Clarity I'm not that much older than you, just so much older. All right. Yeah, let's be clear. I'm an OG because I'm just an OG in the game. So even when I was sixteen, I was twenty five. I just want to put that on that. Yeah, all right, I am certainly older than you, by six years older than you, but I want to be clear. Yeah, we don't don't start making these people think I'm in my sixty now. I'm an oldg You know, I do understand what OG means. OG is original gag. So you can be an OG at twenty one. Yes, you are.

You are my OG, and I tell people that all the time because of your life experience all those things. So let me let me defer to Robert's Rule's point of clarification.

Uh, it's not wait a mine hold on you, sad man in my forty years of life. But I know you've been here many many many.

Girl.

Now hold up now, but again, hey, I've been going to funerals, uh since the sixth grade. You know, so I am a friends of peers. You know, I'm not talking about family members of peers. So it's a blessing, uh to get old. Just so we put that on that that. I just thought it was some point, you know, important to kind of say that. But go ahead, Jake, think he was on track, what saying, You've seen many things, but you ain't seen this.

I've seen many things. I've known many of people with gun charges. However, I have never seen anyone blow up a court room right before they're hearing over a gun charge. So I don't Yeah, this is crazy to me.

And can I just put this out it because even though you ain't seen it, I just want to say, even though it wasn't the court out I mean, let's not forget an Oklahoma city, the Federal Mural building was blown up, you know, but it wasn't before a you know, a thing. But we have seen buildings be blown up. I just that has happened. But I guess it's in this particular way, in this.

Particular way by a defendant that was like, yo, it's fifteen minutes before my court hearing. This is a European white boy, right, or a white man, twenty year old white man by the name of Nathaniel McGuire, who was accused of throwing an explosive device into the Santa Maria courthouse minutes before he was due to appear for his court hearing, and it was at eight forty five in the morning. I've never seen this. I haven't seen a story like this, and I've never seen anything like this in person, nor have I known anyone from similar charges that have gone to these drastic measures and lived to tell about it. That's the crazy thing about it, right, So this is just.

So I'm reading it now in real time. It's hurts people say.

Yeah, five people got blown up in this situation right before fifteen minutes before his hearing.

He was there to appear.

For a twenty twenty firearms violation. So Nathane McGuire allegedly threw a bag containing an explosive device at the screening station of the courthouse lobby, resulting in an explosion that left five people injured.

Wow. Yes, I'm thinking about these Caucasians. They really do take it to the power. They say they ain't gonna need it. You know, they go all in, you know, start running up at the Capitol, you know, blowing up federal buildings. You know what I'm saying. Like that, they go all in. They say that they way above just you know, neighborhood crime. They fuck all it when they when they go in and they really serious about taking down the government for real, it's all this is some males.

Yeah, this is to the point where the Santa Barbara bomb squad had to process the scene to ensure that, you know, the safety of the scene and everything that went on. It said that the initial reports indicated two people were injured, but hospital updates later confirmed that five individuals were treated, with conditions ranging from good to fair. The authorities were investigating whether the suspect, Nathaniel Maguire, is linked to other arson fires in the Santa Barbara area, which could complicate his legal situation for firearms. So Governor Gavin Newssen's office was coordinating with law enforcement, and the court was expected to resume normal operations despite the disruption. How do you say, all right, it was an explosion, explosive explosion downstairs in the lobby. All right, y'all coming up and let's continue on with the court for the day. I don't know how they did that that day, but it's.

Absolutely your business got to get handled. You know, people need a speedy trial. People need to can't just shut down like yeah, go move on, move forward. Remember again, when they when they uh, when they uh when the insurrection happened. Remember they continued on with Congress that they remember, Yeah, they were in there.

That's why the folks this January sixth er is ended the breaching in the Capitol and coming up in there whilst the sessions were still going.

Yeah, they finished the session at night. They were like, we're not going to allow us to stop us from doing the business. Yeah they did. They continued on. Yeah, they continued on that night. So yeah, we got the move ahead, move force for the head. So that my disbelief.

Is very laughable in terms of you know, you you're a military officer, so you're like, yeah, come on, let's go. We're pushing it, like we're going with it, like ain't no, let's go. We're going to handle business and get it done. And I love that because that shows the resilience.

We want to take a break, a mental health day, go through it, you know. Yeah, I want to talk about it.

I want to have a restorative circle.

I want to Oh my god, is everyone okay?

Y'all need?

Yeah, you want to heal and do all of that. Girl were moving on, you know, and came through it anyway, what we got on the battlet of bailiff. We we got to move on it got let no, ain't nothing stopping. It's called somebody going today. Y'all can try to burn you can try to burn it or blow it up. But just so y'all know, if you in my court room, your ass going to jail. So I must send the message. I must in the message. Even if you try to blow this ship up, your hearing will be here, will be heard today. So don't come to try to pull it. So I it speaking of criminal justice. You know this happened a couple of weeks ago. We didn't get a chance to unpack it on the show in real time. I don't want to assume that everybody's heard about Missouri executing Marcella's Williams. So take us through that jade, because that's important, you know, for the family to know and know what happened with that. And it's kind of you know, unpack it absolutely so.

Marcecellius Williams, who was a black man, was convicted of a murder in nineteen ninety eight. Many who believed that he was wrongly convicted of that nineteen ninety eight murder by a white woman allegedly against the white woman part of me. He was actually executed this month by lethal injection in Missouri, despite opposition from prosecutors, attorneys, and even the victims family. Williams Is case had been under intense scrutiny, especially with concerns over mishandled evidence and potential racial bias and the jury selection. So despite multiple legal challenges, the US Supreme Court and Missouri's governor refused to intervene. They refused to intervene, and they allowed the execution to proceed. So this is really really sad test because according to the Death Penalty Information Organization, Marcellus Williams was the twelfth inmate to be put to death under the Republican Missouri governor Mike Parson, and he was actually the one hundredth inmate since Missouri reinstated the death penalty in nineteen eighty nine to be executed. Yeah, so then, yeah, Williams's attorneys argued that new DNA testing the murder weapons showed contamination, which casted doubt, you know, in terms of you know, his guilt, Like it was like, yo, he's not guilty. Additionally, the Saint Louis County prosecutor joined Marcellus williams legal team in urging the court to reconsider his conviction based on that new evidence, but the Missouri and US Supreme Court denied the stays of execution. The allegations of racial bias surface after new testimony from a prosecutor involved in the two thousand and one trial admitted that a black juror was struck from the jury pool because of racial bias. Specifically, the judge in two thousand and one struck a black juror from the jury pool because the juror allegedly looked like Marcellus Williams. That's literally what the judge said, like, Oh, we can't have you on because you look too much like the defendant. That's crazy to me, all right. So it was a huge injustice, a grave injustice. The innocence projects they advocated and advocated for Marcellus Williams, and unfortunately the governor and the US the Supreme Court decided to execute him. And this has caused a lot of uproar test within our country.

Yeah, unfortunately, and again and this just shows why again governors matter. You know, I know everybody keep saying you're voting for the couch, voting for the couch. You can vote for the couch on the federal level. I get it. That's just how you feel neither one of the canvas. You don't like the party, you don't like the candidis, I get it. But your governor, like really runs everything for real, and so if nothing else, you need to be involved in what's going on in your state. And this this matters, you know, governors being able to literally have life and death in their hands. And this is another example, you know, of why this is important. I saw, you know, at the time it was trending, but like most things, people talk about it for a couple days and then they move on. And it's unfortunate that we're at a place now in social justice that people are just really over it and numb to.

It and desensitized too. Tests go ahead. I would say that a lot of folks are desensitized, right, But it's like, you know, these things continue to happen, and folks are kind of unfortunately reading headlines and names and seeing hashtags and just sort of moving on without their day. And there was a time in twenty twenty and before twenty twenty where we would see these grave injustices in the legal system, and we would sort of rally around these these injustices for policy change, and I just I hope that we continue to do that moving forward. But I would like to see I mean, there's no justice that could really be served in this because an innocent black man has been Folks are saying lunched at the hands of the state of Missouri, at least both the governor out, you know. And this is why elected positions and appointed positions are so important. So hopefully folks will wake up and become more involved one way or another.

And I wanted to see his last words. Yes, you've got a last words, Okay, his last words. Marcellus Williams was given the opportunity to write out his last words. And this is the prompts that they give the inmates. It says, I would like to submit the following as my last statement. This is what he wrote.

Quote, all praise be to a law in every situation exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point end quote. So he said, all praise be to a lot in every situation. Those are his.

Fart Yeah, well that's so unfortunate. Again, Missouri a state. Good Sister Michelle organizes in so always an uphill battle with that, and you know, we'll just continue to keep, you know, doing what we can. It's not a state that's certainly, you know, very conservative and how they move, but they they all went Democratic on a lot of issues the last time around, I believe, So you know, we'll continue to look. I think, matter of fact, it was shocking in the midterms, and they had to do with Roe versus weight as well, So we'll get to that. Tell me all about Oklahoma. I was right by Missouri and what went on with that execution.

So unfortunately, there was another execution of a black man by the name of Emanuel little John. Emanuel Little John was fifty two years old, and he was executed by lethal injection, also in Oklahoma. Despite a recommendation for clemency from the state's parole board, the board voted three to two to spare his life due to uncertainties about whether he or his co defendant fired the fatal shot. So the Republican governor, Kevin Stipped declined to grant clemency, emphasizing his commitments to maintain.

Quote unquote law and order. Quote. We hear this phrase all the.

Time, right, law and order. Governor Schmidt's Republic Governor Schmidt of Oklahoma cited the jury's original decision as justification for proceeding with the execution. And just so we know, little John's lethal injection was carried out at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary with his family present. His mother was also there. She witnessed the execution and she exchanged emotional words with him during his final moments. You know, there have been one thousand, six hundred executions since the death penalty's reinstatement in nineteen seventy six, So you know, there's so many executions that are happening in states across the country. And you know, little John with a sentence to death in nineteen ninety two for his role in the robbery and murder of convenience store owner Kenneth Mears, and Little John did not firing the fatal shot, wanting to his co defendant, Glenn Bethany. Prosecutors relied on the testimony of a teenage witness, and evidence decades later, you know, showed something different. So we hear many stories like this test of We're hearing too many stories of people being executed despite evidence, despite you know, requests for stays of execution based on evidence, despite the advocacy of victims' families.

Et cetera, et cetera.

And you know, the death penalty issue, I would say needs to be you know, this needs to be more of something that we talk about because it's affecting way more people than we think about because we don't hear about these stories day to day in the median.

Mhm.

There's another story I wanted to give you an update on real quick before we end. Is that the black student Darryl George, who's now eighteen, who was punished for his hairstyle he wanted to return back to his Texas high school that he left so interestingly, he left his Houston area high school after spending almost his the entire junior year and in school suspension over his hairstyle. So we've seen, you know, these stories about the Crown Act. We've seen Darryl George in the media, and I must give you know, tip my hats off to him. He has really, really, really been standing on business as it pertains to this particular issue. Barbara's Hills School District claims that George's locks violated their dress code, which prohibited hair extensions below the collar, eyebrows, and ear lobes were let down. George's lawyers are that the punishment violated the Crown Act, which is the Texas law that bands race based hair discrimination, including protective hairstyles like lots. So despite withdrawing George, Darryl George wanted to return. He still wants to return to his high school for senior year. He wants to have that senior year experience with his peers that he went to high school with, you know, in terms of prim and photos and all of those other things. And he has asked for a federal judge. He's asked this federal judge for restraining order to prevent further punishment while his lawsuit proceeds.

So we shall.

See, you know, or this is still a developing story. But this is just the update on that story. And there's so many black students across America who also may be facing similar issues. You know, the Crown Acts. I advise everyone to go look into it. But his attorneys are citing the Crown Act, and we shall see how this turns out. So his attorneys argue that the school's actions violated that Texas law and that this is race based discrimination. The school district themselves, Barbara's Hill School District, maintained that George's hairstyle violated their dress code and stated that other students with locks comply with the hair link policy. So they're basically saying that his locks is too long. Ridiculous.

So I wanted to over no with these lots. Go ahead, I'm sorry. Yeah.

After we drawn from Barbaras Hill, George acts a federal judge to issue temporary restraining order that is still pending. We shall see how that goes. I don't know even if they don't get him on his locks. I mean, listen, I've worked with teachers for so long. I work in schools, I advise, you know, I look at these types of issues, and even if his locks are not that long, or if they're pinned up or whatever, my concern is that he could still be targeted for other minor infractions. So hopefully he.

Gets the protection that he's looking for.

But if it were me, test, I mean, I know your parent, I'm an educator. I don't know if I would want my child to go back to the same school that put him through so much in the first place. But you know, if he wants to go back there. He could go back there, and he still needs to be treated fairly like everyone else. But yeah, he's gone through a lot. He's definitely a pioneer. His cases have been very very strong, and his family support and his defense, his legal team, they've been very very consistent. And I really do commend a young man for that, because oftentimes you children get put into situations and k through twelve schools where they just kind of like, you know, what I'm up against the system, let me be just fall back and you know, just kind of accommodate what the rules are.

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