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Warrant for journalists from Jerry Falwell Jr. came from Liberty Universitys own police
Published 10 hours ago on April 8, 2020By Sarah K. Burris
A right-wing commentator interviewed Jerry Falwell Jr. during his show Wednesday, where Falwell said that there were two arrest warrants open for reporters who came onto Liberty Universitys campus.
Upon further examination of the warrant, the police officer who signed the warrant was Detective/Sgt. A.B. Wilkins 206 LUPD. The LUPD is not the Lynchburg Police Department nor is there a Sgt. or Detective A.B. Wilkins. Its the police department under the authority of Liberty University.
Warrants are typically issued by a judge who directs an arresting officer to execute the warrant. No judge appears to have signed the warrant nor is there a judge mentioned, though the warrant does cite the Lynchburg, Virginia courthouse. The warrant also doesnt appear to be certified by the clerk that it was submitted to the court. Clerks generally stamp documents when received.
More at link, including photos of the warrants.
C_U_L8R
(45,031 posts)What's the penalty for impersonating law enforcement?
On edit: it looks like Kang Lee (signed doc middle left) is a real magistrate in Virginia. Is the article mistaken or is the signature a forgery?
Oh wait. On further edit: Look at the two docs. Same supposed magistrate - Kang Lee. Two very different signatures. Uh oh.
DFW
(54,476 posts)"You don't need to see his identification. This isn't the judge you're looking for. Move along."
JHB
(37,163 posts)If it's being presented as if it's a court document when it's not, isn't that fraud?
malaise
(269,254 posts)so there's that
JHB
(37,163 posts)Not so, here.
Lock him up!
Captain Zero
(6,852 posts)Issuing a warrant without authority to do so?
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Squinch
(51,075 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,776 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)Zambero
(8,978 posts)Very much in "character".
Chainfire
(17,715 posts)They can use trespass laws to forbid anyone from legally entering. Sorry, but that is the way it works.
If the campus was in Florida, they could use "reasonable force" to detain trespassers until they were arrested . Trespass laws vary state to state, so I have no idea what their local laws are.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)Is that the way it works?
ck4829
(35,096 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)uponit7771
(90,370 posts)lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)Just because they can make their sheeple always fall for their bullshit they
are quick to assume the rest of the world will. These clowns are pathetic.
Marcuse
(7,553 posts)DFW
(54,476 posts)A brief conversation on the morning after the orgy of the gods...
"Who are you?"
"I am Thor!"
"You think *you're* thore...I'm tho thore I can't even thtand to pith!"
(OK, I'll leave now...)
hunter
(38,340 posts)Silly me.
Midnight Writer
(21,830 posts)dalton99a
(81,673 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)KayF
(1,345 posts)Takket
(21,677 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Or the even more unlikely event that America regains its sanity.