Demetric Scott admitted he wrote letters in the name of Ramon Morales-Reyes, who he was charged with assaulting
Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged a man with four felonies for attempting to frame an undocumented immigrant he is accused of assaulting, by sending forged letters in the immigrant’s name with a threat to kill Donald Trump.
The handwritten, forged letters were mailed to Wisconsin’s attorney general, Milwaukee police and US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Ice). The story received a flood of media attention and was highlighted by the White House and Trump’s allies, but appears to have been a hoax.
WISN-TV, an ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, reported on Monday that a criminal complaint alleges Demetric Scott admitted to investigators he wrote the letters threatening to kill the president in the name of Ramon Morales-Reyes, whom he was previously charged with assaulting.
8 Comments
ski11erboi@lemm.ee · 36 pts · 1y
I love that the immigrant can now be granted legal status because he was the victim of a crime. It's a decent silver lining.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 1y
Except he'd still be in america.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Even the current US lunacy is preferable to the hell the west has brought to huge portions of central america.
GuyFawkes@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y
Didn’t see that in the article; can you source it?
But even giving you the benefit of the doubt, can is FAR different from shall. I doubt TACO would allow it to happen.
Whats_a_lemmy@ponder.cat · 6 pts · 1y
U visa perhaps?
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y
Wouldn't it be lovely if Morales-Reyes sued Ice Barbie for defamation? I think about 10 million should wipe her out.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
"30 yard 6"
Fry that redneck for being too gun-illiterate, and then because he's a racist piece of shit on top of that.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Well that's certainly not the silver lining I was hoping for in this terrible story.