Police Knew About MSU Shooter, Progressive Prosecutor’s Soft-on-Crime Approach Kept Him on the Street

 Legal Insurrection

“The initial charge was a felony that carried a potential penalty of five years in prison, according to the records.”

"While you hear the leftists and Democrats scream about gun control, remember this. Their policies kept the Michigan State University gunman on the street.

"Anthony McRae killed three people on Monday night and injured five others. He killed himself off-campus.

"McRae shouldn’t have been on the street, but Ingham County’s progressive prosecutor at the time, with ties to George Soros, went soft on him in 2019:

Anthony McRae was arrested in Lansing and charged in June 2019 with carrying a concealed pistol without a concealed carry permit, according to Ingham County court records obtained Tuesday by The Detroit News. The initial charge was a felony that carried a potential penalty of five years in prison, according to the records.

At about 3 a.m. June 7, 2019, an officer encountered Anthony McRae in Lansing where the officer asked him if he had any weapons on him. McRae acknowledged he had a gun but he didn’t have a concealed weapons permit, according to court records. McRae also had a magazine in his right breast pocket, according to the court records.

“He advised the handgun was registered to him,” a court document about the incident said. “He bought it late March at Capital Discount. He was currently trying to obtain a concealed weapons permit.”

In October 2019, Ingham County prosecutors added a second charge against McRae: possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle, a misdemeanor.

That same month, October 2019, McRae agreed to plead guilty to the lesser misdemeanor charge, and prosecutors dismissed the felony charge.

Police and McRae

"Why is it that it’s always people the police or feds know about?". . .

Violence — The calling card of the Democrat Party

. . .Carol Siemon was the prosecutor at that time. Judges and law enforcement complained about “her soft-on-crime policies.”

I found a few instances of her being soft on violent people. This one shook me to the core.

In 2020, she allowed a man who bludgeoned two women to death to plead to second-degree murder, which carries a minimum range of 30-50 years, because Siemon “doesn’t believe in life-without-parole sentences.” First-degree murder carries that sentence.

Siemon allowed that plea despite the man planning to kill four women. He killed two of them.

The plea ticked off the victims’ parents. The sheriff asked the state attorney general to take over.

It all changed in the hands of Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina when she rejected the deal and allowed the defendant to “withdraw his guilty pleas, saying Siemon was trying ‘to be creative to get around the judge and the Legislature, and quite frankly, the law’ in what the judge described as ‘textbook first-degree, premeditated’ murder cases.”