Attorneys and court officials exited and gathered in front of the courthouse in Albuquerque.
So, it wasn’t just the gallery. They evacuated the building.
The U.S. Marshals Service said it could not immediately provide information on why the courthouse had been cleared Monday.
Common sense suggests that someone made a bomb threat.
Maybe it was the judge?
Maybe one of the lawyers?
Maybe it was family of one of the accused’s victims?
Maybe it was one of the accused’s armed-to-the-teeth sovereign citizen “militia” brothers who, like the accused himself, believes vigilantism is acceptable and that lethal force is appropriate whenever they feel like it?
My money’s on the bailiff.
Maybe it was Trump.
Did they roll out the red carpet for this asshole as well?
I was on a jury where they evacuated the building last year, and it was a bomb threat. They get threats all the time, but they only evacuate on ones that are viable…and with this guy they probably got something that sounded like they should take it seriously.
We will be so much better off when the nation finally turns away from white supremacy, I hope I live long enough to see it happen.
Maybe it was james o’keefe faking a mexican accent while wearing a sombrero?
Yeah, I can hear O’Keefe on the phone: “Si, there is a bomb-o in the courthouse-o. My name is Senor Duerte Sanchez.”
Or one of Don the Con’s “Very fine people (on both sides)?”
Am I the only one who finds that word “detained” a little jarring? I’m 80% sure that, if I forced someone into an alley at gunpoint, that’s not the word people would use.
(For that matter, I’d question the uncritical use of “militias” as a euphemism for certain kinds of armed gangs / terrorist groups)
That sounds like more evidence that this group is a terrorist organization - and should be treated accordingly.