Arizona border vigilante gets jail for drawing gun on deputy

[Ptah]

A border vigilante arrested after he drew a gun on a Maricopa County Sheriff's
deputy in the desert was sentenced Friday to six months in jail, but was granted
the opportunity to leave for work six days out of the week.

The sentence for Richard Malley, 50, was about as generous as the judge could
have ordered, with Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Cohen noting
that Malley qualified for nearly every mitigating factor available.

But Malley couldn't escape a courtroom lecture from both Cohen and his own
defense attorney, both the men chastising what they saw as Malley's half-baked
attempt at vigilantism.

Malley was arrested in August 2013, when he and two other members of a
"Minuteman militia group" were scouting for smugglers in the desert area near Gila Bend.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/01/30/arizona-border-vigilante-sentencing-abrk/22594143/

[Xipe Totec]

1. There is no excuse for ever putting somebody whose job is to be law enforcement in danger.

"There is no excuse for ever putting somebody whose job is to be law enforcement in danger. Even if they're wearing weird clothes, pretending to be a drug dealer, that's their job."



There is no excuse for ever putting anybody in danger.

The crime is drawing the weapon.

The fact that it happened to be a deputy is just an aggravating circumstance.

[TexasProgresive]

2. How come the deputy did not shoot him?

I mean if you are a black man reaching for your ID is enough to get you shot.

[packman]

3. Second that - his whiteness saved his ass