Florida man sentenced to 3 years in prison for firebombing California Planned Parenthood clinic
Florida man sentenced to 3 years in prison for firebombing California Planned Parenthood clinic
Prosecutors say a 21-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022.
A 21-year-old Florida man was sentenced Monday to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022, federal prosecutors said.
Xavier Batten pleaded guilty in January to one felony count of possessing an unregistered destructive device and one misdemeanor count of intentionally damaging a reproductive health services facility.
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney also sentenced Batten, of Brooksville, Florida, to three years of probation and ordered him to pay $1,000 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
Carney said Batten had committed a “cowardly crime” that showed “no empathy for women and their rights,” according to the statement. He has been in federal custody since July 2023.
That's it??
3 years imprisonment for domestic terrorism
3 years doesn't seem long enough...
He was 1 of 2 men that fire bombed the clinic. The other man got 9 years, I assume because he was the instigator.
3 shitty years?!! He must’ve been super light skined-ed.
I'll never understand sentencing.
A 21-year-old Florida man was sentenced Monday to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022, federal prosecutors said.
A co-defendant, 24-year-old Chance Brannon, was sentenced last month to nine years in prison. Brannon, of San Juan Capistrano, California, was an active-duty Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton at the time of the bombing.
Another co-defendant, Tibet Ergul, has pleaded guilty to the charges against him. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 30.
Psychologically speaking, perhaps deterrence being a goal of punishment isn't all that effective. I don't know what it would take to persuade a person from such an act, but whatever that is... that's what the prison term needs to be.
I presume these people have radical thinking, so perhaps no amount of prison time, whatever it might, is enough. Especially if they believe they were serving their god in the process. Religion is a powerful driving force. Ugh.
These are the kinds of things that make me less inclined to show compassion to my fellow humans. And I don't like that.
Why can't we have that Gene Roddenberry Star Trek future now? 😭
Why can't we have that Gene Roddenberry Star Trek future now? 😭
There was at least one apocalypse-scale event between here and there, so be careful what you're wishing for on that front
perhaps deterrence being a goal of punishment isn't all that effective.
It really isn't. Most people who plan their crimes tend to have convinced themselves that their cunning plan means they won't get caught.
And (at the other end of the criminal "mastermind" spectrum), crackheads who don't plan their crimes are also not thinking about the possibility of getting caught.
And if you beleive you won't be caught, the potential punishment is irrelevant to you.
The only thing I can see going for this guy was that he wasn't actually caught on camera doing the attack, but this maps on to the "terrorist bombmaker" role in a terror cell.
Batten helped and conspired with Brannon to firebomb the clinic with a Molotov cocktail from February through March 13, 2022, according to his plea agreement.
Brannon and Ergul put together the Molotov cocktail about March 12, 2022, in Ergul’s garage, prosecutors alleged. Batten coached Brannon how to construct the fiery device, prosecutors said.
Brannon and Ergul ignited the device on March 13, 2022, and hurled it at the clinic’s entrance, sparking a fire, prosecutors alleged.
In May 2022, Batten discussed with Brannon about what it would take to bomb another clinic, prosecutors alleged in Brannon’s plea agreement.
Last time i checked the penalty for treason is death.....
I am not saying that what this guy did wasn't horrible and violent. 3 years is a pathetic consequence for what amounts to a terror attack.
But how the fuck was this "treason"? I get that it's trendy to call Conservatives traitors, but we can at least understand what the word means before we use it every time a conservative does something bad...
Furthermore, no crime should carry death as a penalty, because the government shouldn't have that kind of power over their citizens, no matter what crime they commit.
This isn't treason; it's terrorism. Literally terrorism, and the guy got only three years for it.
Unclear from the article why someone got 9 years and someone else got 3 years.
Recognizance and how direct a hand they had in the crime, usually.
I’m pretty sure Florida Man has been sentenced to a couple of millennia worth of prison time by now.
He's not usually pulling shennanigans in California, though.
This kid's parents failed miserably.
Some people are born broken. But there are also terrible parents. You can never quite tell which it is.
If it was up to Ronald, he'd probably give him a job in his administration.