{"id":211198,"date":"2020-07-30T07:54:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T07:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211198"},"modified":"2020-08-01T06:42:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T06:42:35","slug":"police-confiscate-mans-firearm-after-anonymous-antifa-members-accuse-him-of-being-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211198","title":{"rendered":"Police Confiscate Man’s Firearm After Anonymous “Antifa” Members Accuse Him of Being a “Racist”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Striker \u2013 The Unz Review July 28, 2020<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n

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A California man had his registered firearm seized by local police after \u201cantifa\u201d members on social media accused him of being racist on the internet \u2014 the first case of its kind.<\/span><\/p>\n

On July 7th\/8th, left-wing extremist twitter user @anonymouscommie<\/a> doxed a Sacramento resident named Andrew Casarez. The anonymous account accused him of being a \u201cneo-Nazi troll.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On the very same day, the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office opened up an investigation into him. During a background check, they found that Casarez was a registered gun owner. On July 13th, 2020, Sergeant Nate Grgich executed a search warrant for his home and car.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing illegal or of a criminal nature was found during the search, but Sgt. Grgich was able to get a judge\u2019s permission to seize Casarez\u2019s handgun, a pair of pants and a \u201cracist\u201d t-shirt using a new law enforcement tool called a \u201cgun restraining order,\u201d which was signed by Judge Jaime R. Roman.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office is bragging about being the first in the country to seize a firearm using primarily the owner\u2019s political ideology as the excuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the case, spokesperson Lacey Nelson was quoted<\/strong><\/span><\/a> as saying \u201cThis search warrant it\u2019s the first of its kind at least in the country. As far as how we obtained it and were able to serve it [\u2026] He was posting enough racist rhetoric and propaganda on Facebook that it was concerning that his behaviors could become violent in retaliation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson also said \u201cInstead of waiting for him to go out and commit acts of violence, per se, they were able to ideally stop it before it started. But he did have a firearm in his possession.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

National Justice<\/em> has obtained public record copies of the Gun Violence Emergency Restraining Order and the search warrant filed against Casarez, but will not be posting them in their entirety to protect his privacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sgt. Grgich\u2019s sworn affidavit explains that the mere act of having your personal information posted by \u201cantifa,\u201d COVID-19, and Casarez\u2019s alleged views on race during an imaginary rash of ongoing \u201chate crimes\u201d are all reasons for why his Constitutional rights must be preemptively suspended.<\/span><\/p>\n

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While red flag laws have been utilized sporadically across the country, Sgt. Grgich\u2019s use of it here is unique in that it relies primarily on the word of unknown \u201cantifa\u201d members on twitter for a substantial part of its rationalization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Casarez\u2019s political views should not be taken into account when it comes to lawful gun ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n

That anarchists can now have your property taken from you by the police just by accusing you of being racist on the internet is not a habit that will end with Casarez if groups like the National Rifle Association don\u2019t nip this in the bud.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Republished from National Justice<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by permission of author or representative)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All it takes now are anonymous accusations by Antifa members for the police to act <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211200,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211198\/revisions\/211200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}