Texan gets 15 years for shooting after white nationalist rally

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. FEBRUARY 28, 2019 / 1:19 PM / UPDATED 10 HOURS AGO

Texan gets 15 years for shooting after white nationalist rally

Gina Cherelus
2 MIN READ

(Reuters) - A Texan who shot at counter-protesters after a white nationalist rally at the University of Florida in 2017 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, court records showed.

Tyler Tenbrink, 30, pleaded no contest to charges of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a felon during a hearing on Wednesday in Alachua County, Florida.

No one was hurt in the shooting, near the university’s campus in Gainesville after a speech by Richard Spencer, an avowed white nationalist, drew hundreds of counter-protesters.

Ahead of Spencer’s speech, Tenbrink spoke with a Reuters journalist and described himself as a white nationalist who wanted to preserve “our heritage and the American way of life.”

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-crime/texan-gets-15-years-for-shooting-after-white-nationalist-rally-idUSKCN1QH2I1

[Beakybird]

1. If "the American way of life" means mass incarceration, then he succeeded.

[Leghorn21]

2. One by one, y'all seem to be getting sent to - no, not "jail", dammit: PRISON

Bye Tye