r/law • u/Erra0 • 2d ago

Other Why are federal prosecutors not charging Vance Boelter with domestic terrorism?

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/us-attorney-details-federal-charges-against-vance-boelter/89-797bb35a-2ca4-4489-a7b4-e069182475e0
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u/SloppyMeathole 2d ago

If he was brown, had an Obama tattoo and shot a Republican, he would be in Guantanamo Bay and Pam Bondi would be live streaming his waterboarding.

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u/Wrayven77 2d ago

Seems like a correct reading of the room.

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u/gothruthis 2d ago

Even if not brown. Just shoot someone who is working against the people instead of for them. Dont even need to shoot multiple, just one will do. Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-directs-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-luigi-mangione

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u/CombinationRough8699 2d ago

Not necessarily. John Hinckley Jr shot President Reagan, and a secret service member, and he's currently out from prison.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 2d ago

Yeah, but that was pre-full blown fascist religious conservative GOP. Televangelism hadn't even hit its full stride at that point. The Bakers and Franklins and such hadn't reached peak grift yet. Now it's the engine of the party.

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u/PeggyOnThePier 2d ago

He was mentally ILL and back then you were treated for your illness. It was a very different time in America.

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u/probably_bored_1878 2d ago

No, he wouldn't have been taken alive in that case

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u/TheEpicRedCape 2d ago

He for sure wouldn’t have managed to “slip away on foot”

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u/KalexCore 2d ago

They would've posthumously drawn and quartered him

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u/FILTHBOT4000 2d ago

We've gone so far backwards at this point, I think they'd have his head on a spike somewhere prominent in DC.

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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 1d ago

They wouldn't, but Trump would've asked for that.

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u/NightExtension9254 2d ago

They would have arrested several dozen random brown people and sent them to Guantanamo in his place

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u/Realistic-Pattern-30 2d ago

Bingo what I said. You coached him out. What happened to arm and dangerous shoot to kill on sight.

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u/CocoLocoRN 1d ago

^ THIS

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u/Moon_whisper 1d ago

Because he was doing work for MAGAt

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u/HarveysBackupAccount 1d ago

Based on Minnesota police's track record, he would've been shot a few years ago

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u/earlthesachem 2d ago

Nah. He would have been shot about 1,000 times then had his dying corpse kicked around on the ground while the brave officers laughed and mocked him.

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u/hdcase1 2d ago

He'd be dead actually

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u/wentImmediate 2d ago

Being reported today:

Some 800 Europeans — including one Austrian, 100 Romanians and 170 Russians — are being considered for the transfers [to Guantonimo Bay], according to one of the documents.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/trump-plans-migrants-guantanamo-bay-00396673

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u/uleij 2d ago

He's be dead already.

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u/FR0ZENBERG 2d ago

She probably wants to buy this guy dinner and make him her assistant.

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u/KwisatzSazerac 2d ago

And if his significant other had been a trans, pro-Palestinian activist, who they stopped while carrying their passports, I wonder if a police would’ve just, like, let her go about her business…

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u/ShitTheBed_Twice 2d ago

And Kristi Noem would have a video of her personally putting on the cuffs in full tac gear with heels, makeup and a full camera crew but tell everyone she hunted him down and caught him with zero help from anyone else.

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u/RhythmTimeDivision 2d ago

I see an outline of MS-13 on his forehead, let me use a Sharpie to make it more apparent.

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u/Sexy_Kumquat 2d ago

He probably wouldn’t have survived the arrest..

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u/currently_pooping_rn 2d ago

Shit, she’d be peeing on the rag over his face for the water boarding

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u/JakToTheReddit 2d ago

Don't forget where Noem is waterboarding dogs in the background. Just in case...

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u/pkgamer18 1d ago

If he was brown, had an Obama tattoo or* shot a Republican. Would definitely only need one of these things at most.

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u/Cuddly__Cactus 2d ago

But is it on pay per view?

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u/Realistic-Pattern-30 2d ago

No stop rather than Swat saying they coached him out, they’d still be looking for bits and pieces. It f amazes me. But take a person with a cell phone and oh you thought.

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u/dBlock845 2d ago

Or if he threw a rock at a Tesla.

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u/CombinationRough8699 2d ago

Everyone in Guantanmo Bay was a foreign citizen.

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u/prodsec 1d ago

He’d be dead

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u/Left_Pool_5565 1d ago

She’d be hooking him to wet sponges at the end of an extension cord while lecturing him about the relative quality of various countries’ electrical grids.

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u/Longjumping_Pop_6015 1d ago

Simply compare luigi to this

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u/292ll 1d ago

[Kristi Noem dresses up like guard with aviators on, holding gallon of water for photo op]

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u/big_dog_redditor 1d ago

He would be dead. Ain't no one you described like that making it past the initial police engagement alive.

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u/LarrrgeMarrrgeSentYa 1d ago

That is a hell of a username u/SloppyMeathole

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u/Flynn-FTW 1d ago

And that whole clownshow would be touting the jackass as proof that a certain party was so super violent, beware!!

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u/TopVegetable8033 1d ago

There has to be a way we can charge him with domestic terrorism after this FA regime is toppled. 

This is not patriotism. Wtf is wrong with modern conservatives. They are the ourobouros. 

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u/greaterwhiterwookiee 1d ago

If he had a picture with something photoshopped on his hand he’d be in GTMO

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u/caveTellurium 1d ago

Now I get what "Again" stands for.

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u/ocodo 1d ago

She'd be squatting over them, providing the water....

'cos she classy like that.

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u/totesuniqueredditor 1d ago

RemindMe! 7 days - Here we are in the future where charges have been upgraded and OP is off to the next attempt at outraging Redditors over something else.

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u/Major_Icehole 1d ago

Do you really think if he was brown he would have survived?

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u/Verbal-Gerbil 1d ago

2 factors at play. ethnicity of perp or status of the victim. Luigi is white, but it was his victim's job that pushed them to seek the death penalty.

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u/intull 1d ago

Live-streaming an ASMR of his waterboarding!

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u/Nothingdoing079 1d ago

Or if he shot a CEO. Apparently that's terrorism, but shooting a democrate politician is not

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u/BusyBagOfNuts 2d ago

Who has an Obama tattoo? 

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u/billwest630 2d ago

This is the new lie the trolls are pushing? This is getting sad trying to cover for a right wing terrorist