KKK leader sentenced to four years in prison for firing gun during Aug. 12 rally

[Yonnie3]

Source: The Daily Progress

Richard Preston, a self-identified Ku Klux Klan leader from Maryland, will serve four years in prison for firing a gun during the Unite the Right rally.

On Tuesday, Preston, 53, was sentenced to eight years in prison with four years suspended for discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of The Park School. After he pleaded no contest in May, he faced a possible sentence of two to 10 years behind bars.

Preston had seen counter-protester Corey Long light an aerosol spray can as the rallying white supremacists exited what is now Market Street Park. Preston brandished a pistol at Long before lowering it again. Suddenly, he pulled the firearm up and aimed it in Long’s direction. He fired the gun and, prosecutors said, the projectile hit the dirt near Long’s feet but did not injure him.

On Monday, Long appealed his guilty verdict on a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge related to the use of the improvised flamethrower.

Read more: https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/courts/kkk-leader-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-firing/article_65d0550e-a581-11e8-b49d-1ff04e916407.html

[JI7]

1. bad day for trump's very fine and the best people

[iluvtennis]

2. Indeed.

[Scurrilous]

3. K&R

[edbermac]

4. Cohen plea, Manafort guilty and now this moron.

I can’t take all this in a single day!

[Yonnie3]

5. Happy dance here!

All were happening at the same time too. Hard to follow it all. I'm exhausted.

[spicysista]

6. Good!

[blugbox]

7. I just wanted to chime in...

I'm happy that this idiot got what he deserved.

I also think it is very amusing that there is a human on Earth appealing a guilty verdict on his misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge via use of an improvised flamethrower. That is a thing that has now happened in the history of the world.

You shot flames and disturbed the peace! Sounds like a wizard misdemeanor.

[obamanut2012]

8. That young man was protecting an elderly WHITE man

From the Nazis. The old man is usually cropped out of the photo showing Long.

The cops didn't protect the residents of Charlotteville against the outside alt-right agitators, so residents protected one another. LOng should not ahve been convicted.

[blugbox]

9. I hope there is no confusion!

The idiot I was referring to was the moron kkk member.

Thank you for sharing more about Mr. Long! I was merely commenting on the strangeness of the whole situation, but I hope his appeal is successful! Anyone fighting off Nazis from the elderly is ok in my book!