Convicted felon to plead guilty to BB gun attacks on Planned Parenthood in Pasadena, CA
In California courts, criminal defendants are prohibited from attacking members of the same sex, their family members, or other public figures. In this case, a convicted felon was allowed to attack two women, but not one woman.
A convicted felon pleaded guilty in federal court on March 25 to charges that he stabbed two women. His attorney claimed the attacks were the result of the “unfounded and irrational fear and anxiety inspired by recent events involving the defendant,” but prosecutors countered that the attacks should have been considered hate crimes “under the laws of the United States.”
The first attack occurred in December when the defendant attacked Nancy Folks, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director, and the mother of her child after Folks told him in a phone call that the defendant had been harassing her. The second attack occurred in March when the defendant attacked Linda Sarsour, a founding member and international activist for the Democratic Socialists of America, over Sarsour’s advocacy for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The third attack occurred in May when the defendant attacked Jahi McMath, an undocumented Latina plaintiff in a sex discrimination case against a business she worked at, after McMath criticized the defendant’s comments about illegal immigration. The fourth attack occurred on May 16, 2017, when the defendant attacked another Planned Parenthood founder over their alleged affiliation with Islamic extremism.
Two separate federal trials ended in a mistrial with the defendant being acquitted of the hate crime convictions, but with a guilty plea for the charges regarding Folks, Sarsour, and McMath.
In California courts, criminal defendants are prohibited from attacking members of the same sex, their family members, or other public figures. In this case, a convicted felon was allowed to attack two women, but not one woman.
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