Another Example of Misdirection for "Fighting Crime"

Unfortunately, it's been the norm for some time that legislators push for ineffectual "feel good" legislation that will get them elected by the uninformed, while Judges keep the most dangerous of criminals on the street with a slap on the wrist for heinous acts.

Also, was this a hate crime? Sure sounds like it to me... but no mention.

This lunatic will spend four years in a hospital for attempted murder in the process of committing a hate crime.

Shooter could get limited freedom
Jim Nichols
Plain Dealer Reporter

A Shaker Heights man who went on a psychotic, racially motivated shooting spree four years ago may soon be allowed to leave a mental hospital unsupervised.

Yusef DeJarnette, 29, has been institutionalized since being found not guilty by reason of insanity under a plea agreement that put him under court authority until 2029. He had been charged with four counts of attempted aggravated murder.

Court records depict DeJarnette as a paranoid schizophrenic black man who shot at white people from the seat of his bicycle because, he believed, God told him to avenge racial oppression.

He fired on at least four people in at least three incidents in Cleveland Heights and Beachwood in August and September 2002. The shootings wounded two victims, both of whom have recovered.

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"We have very serious concerns that because of his mental illness, he's a danger to the community," [Assistant County Prosecutor Blaise] Thomas said. "He has a demonstrated history of violent delusions and a demonstrated history of not following his doctors' orders."

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