Link to video:

https://twitter.com/angry_staffer/status/1382119550985048068?s=21

Link to story ruining his career: https://heavy.com/news/jonathan-pentland/

Link to protests: https://twitter.com/sooji_namtv/status/1382425698602717185?s=21

This hits me close to home bc I knew a guy who lived here. It’s a trap neighborhood. Was nice planned community in 1980s and early 1990s. As newer houses were built further out, white ppl moved out and black people moved in. As value of neighborhood decreased, some national builders bought up the remaining lots and threw up some houses in the 150k-200k range. Military families fall for this neighborhood all the time bc it looks nice.

It’s not. This is the elementary school it’s zoned for: https://www.publicschoolreview.com/rice-creek-elementary-school-profile

7% white. We started calling the summit neighborhood the “slummit” bc it’s so ghetto now. There are regular reports of gang activity there.

Anyways, this guy obviously must have a white block within the neighborhood and thought he could defend it against some dorky looking black guy bc he’s an alpha male and now his life is ruined.

Guy I know who lived there and sent his kids to that school had awesome kids. Were very friendly to my kids and went out of their way to include them even though his kids were much older. Anyway, his kids were getting bullied so much at the elementary school and crying about it to him so much he had to tell them to consider it like a mission field and that he and his wife had considered being missionaries to Africa and they should just look at it like that. Literally most depressing thing i can imagine.

Anyway, alpha Male soldiers life is ruined and he’s going to have to move-prob for the best.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42280697)

Which Big Dog tshirt are you wearing atm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42283498)

even worse if it's a black neighborhood i assumed it was lily white the way he was acting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42280772)

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42280791)

a white person is like anyone else when it comes down to it. if you pull the rug out from under them and ruin their life, rendering them permanently unemployable and a social outcast, harassing their family for the sins of the father, etc, you are taking away all the usual things that would check unpredictable, violent behavior. 99% of all people will never experience this under any value system and will always learn the rules and play by them.

it just strikes me as pretty dangerous to go creating people with absolutely nothing to lose. one of these viral incidents, and your life is materially thousands of times worse than an ex-con.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42286507)

I dont think the sergeant needs any excuse here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42281232)

Police are too encumbered by fear of lawsuit to even touch something like this. Even if it WERE the case that the mere existence of a police department in your town means that you no longer have permission to protect your neighborhood from suspected burglars.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42281359)

Both behaviors are menacing and this guy was obviously responding to that the way any healthy man would.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42283377)

the non-whites in this subthread seem to genuinely believe that a regular, good, honest person should not have the "right" to expect his neighborhood to be a good, clean, safe place, and should not have the "right" to take steps to personally try to keep his neighborhood good, clean, and safe. if there are bad, evil, undesirable people ruining your neighborhood, too bad! you just have to live with it or flee, whitey!

sorry, this isn't india or africa. this is a country for actual human beings. you guys don't understand "rights" and you don't understand good, clean, safe, desirable humans and human civilization

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42286160)

do you think these same people would angrily exclaim that some indian guy in india has "no right" to expel some sketchy, creepy white guy from his neighborhood in his indian home town village? no, of course not

i'm not so much disgusted by these people as i am disgusted by the vast majority of the white native population of this "country" who still has not figured these people out

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42286245)

go back to india

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42291240)

Date: April 15th, 2021 11:33 AM

Author: toxoplasmosis gf

really cringe post dude

you should read up a little more on the context behind why the military guy was pressuring him to leave. he had been aggressively sexually harassing women in the neighborhood ("assaulting" them actually, if you consider unwanted touching "assault")

why are there always people like you who reflexively spit out such ridiculously naive hot takes? like what exactly is going through your brain? do you really think that this guy just randomly and completely irrationally started bullying a random guy on the sidewalk....? like wtf is even the thought process happening in your mind lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42284345)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42291161)

you should read up a little more on the context behind why the military guy was pressuring him to leave. he had been aggressively sexually harassing women in the neighborhood ("assaulting" them actually, if you consider unwanted touching "assault")

why are there always people like you who reflexively spit out such ridiculously naive hot takes? like what exactly is going through your brain? do you really think that this guy just randomly and completely irrationally started bullying a random guy on the sidewalk....? like wtf is even the thought process happening in your mind lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42284345)

"According to the sheriff's department, the victim 'approached several neighbors in a threatening manner and the confrontation escalated after a neighbor asked Pentland to intervene.'"

yeah just a crraazzzyyy Racist white guy who randomly and irrationally decided to bully and attack a random innocent bystander. because of like, The Racism, or something

just like the germans just randomly and completely irrationally Evilly Persecuted jews. just completely unprompted, out of nowhere, with no reason or provocation

god you people are brainless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42286049)

Soldier is a corny geek and has a fat white wife. He was short tempered, aggressive and threatening violence. His behavior was much more in line with black culture than white culture. He is right at home in the black neighborhood.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42281303)

Hear the sizzle on DAT steak.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42283490)

https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sfc-jonathan-pentland.jpg?resize=782,521

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42284555)

I was shaking and in tears watching this. Literally terrified that this young man would be killed if not for the calmness and self-control he displayed in the presence of an out of control racist. Shame on you, #JonathanPentland. This should never happen!!!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42284807)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42286115)

We should all go out in the streets tonight and flap our arms and grope whoever we want while talking to ourselves in solidarity with our Black brothers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42286834)

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article253636288.html

A judge found suspended Fort Jackson Army Sgt. Jonathan Pentland guilty Monday of assaulting a Black man in a northeast Columbia neighborhood in an incident that spawned protests, riled emotions and captured national attention.

After a two-day bench trial at Richland County magistrate court on Decker Boulevard, Judge Diedra Hightower gave the guilty verdict for third-degree assault and battery, a misdemeanor.

Pentland was sentenced to either 30 days in prison or a fine of $1,087. A bench trial does not include a jury. Instead, the judge determines the verdict.

The Richland County Sheriff’s Department charged Pentland days after video hit social media showing the Army sergeant yelling at the man and telling him to get out of the Barony Place neighborhood in the Summit. Sheriff Leon Lott said Pentland became physical with the man, warranting a third degree assault and battery charge. Witnesses testified that they saw Pentland shove and hit the person on the arm.

The incident was seen by some as another moment of racism against a Black man. Black community groups gathered outside Pentland’s house to express their anger after the video was publicized.

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Pentland’s attorney, Benjamin Allen Stitely, argued that the altercation was based on behavior by the alleged victim before cameras were turned on and that Pentland was justified in his actions.

Stitely decried the way people labeled Pentland “a bully and a racist. He was defending his family and friends,” Stitely said.

Several witnesses said Williams was acting “erratic” or volatile before the incident. Williams’ father testified that his son, once a high-performing student, suffered potential brain damage after suffering from lymphoma, a type of cancer. Williams, who is now in remission, suffered swelling throughout his lymph system and in his brain, Williams’ father testified. As a result, Williams struggles to complete basic tasks, such as getting groceries without assistance.

THE LEAD-UP

Pentland’s defense attorneys didn’t deny what happened on the video, but said the video lacked crucial context that went back several days.

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Kimberly Hernandez, who lives in The Summit, testified that in the days before the event several of her family members had disturbing encounters with Williams.

Williams frequently approached one of Hernandez’s daughters while she was walking the dog throughout the neighborhood, Hernandez testified.

“I don’t care if he walks in the area,” Hernandez said. “I didn’t want him stopping my daughter anytime he was outside.”

On a separate encounter, Williams allegedly picked up a baby belonging to Hernandez’s daughter-in law, she testified.

Following the incident where Williams allegedly picked up the baby, Hernandez’s daughter-in-law went outside on April 12 — the day of the incident — and confronted Williams, saying he had no permission to touch her child.

“I went outside expecting them to be right outside and I saw my daughter-in-law arguing with him and I told her to quickly come back to the house,” Hernandez said.

The daughter-in-law came back but Williams followed, Hernandez said.

“He was angry by the time he approached me. He was already erratic and jumping back and forth. He was telling me he did nothing wrong,” Hernandez said.

Williams was yelling so loud and got so close to Hernandez, he was unintentionally spitting in her face, she testified.

“I would think he would start to walk away, but immediately he would come back and come back to me,” Hernandez said.

After seeing Hernandez and Williams arguing, neighbor Renee Wilson testified that she called 911 after hearing a man and a woman screaming louder and louder at each other.

The woman, Hernandez, cried out yelling for someone to call 911, Wilson testified.

“It just seemed like it was about to get worse,” said Wilson, who is Black.

Around the time Wilson called 911, Hernandez and Williams stopped their argument and Hernandez went over to Pentland’s house, ringing the doorbell and banging on the door, multiple witnesses said.

THE CASE AGAINST PENTLAND

According to First Sgt. Walter Shawn McDaniels, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department employee who signed Pentland’s arrest warrant, the video speaks for itself.

In the video, Pentland physically towers over Williams, cursing and screaming for him to “get out” of the neighborhood. Williams, who speaks in a low, calm voice, takes an awkward step toward where other people, including Pentland’s wife, were standing in the grass. Williams motions his hand to point backward and focuses on the women behind Pentland. Pentland says to Williams, “That’s my wife you’re talking to.” Pentland then shoves him.

The defense argues Pentland was trying to protect his wife, but McDaniels, citing Pentland’s exact words, doesn’t believe that.

“The threat was him talking to his wife. The threat was not him walking toward his wife,” McDaniels said.

“In observing this video, I noticed there were several attempts for Mr. Williams to de-escalate,” McDaniels said.

The prosecution doubled-down on this point in the closing argument when assistant solicitor Paul Walton said the reason Pentland shoved Williams was because he lost his temper.

“His pride is hurt,” Walton said. “He’s a drill sergeant and he’s used to people doing what he says.”

It was the second of three times Pentland allegedly put his hands on Williams, witnesses said. The first was a separate, alleged shove that happened just minutes before the video — which was taken by one of Williams’ friends — started. The second was caught on video.

In the prosecution’s closing statements, they played body cam video from an officer who interviewed Pentland immediately following the incident in which Pentland said, “I apologize, I should not have gotten as aggressive as I did.”

Asked about the hours and days leading up to the altercation, McDaniels said those were closed cases and not relevant to the video evidence of Pentland shoving Williams.

The third altercation happened when Williams was walking away but holding the phone in Pentland’s direction. Prosecutors noted it’s legal to take video on a public street and said Pentland could have let him go at this point.

“Even if I wanted to scratch the first and second assault because they were near his wife and neighbors, at (the third) point he was walking away, and because he had his phone up lawfully, that’s an assault,” McDaniels said.

IN DEFENSE OF PENTLAND

From the perspective of the defense and several neighbors, Williams had been “belligerent” leading up to the evening of April 12. Pentland testified that when Hernandez went to get him, she told Pentland that Williams had been scaring women in the neighborhood.

When Pentland arrived, he saw Williams “in the face” of a neighbor and got between Williams.

Williams, witnesses say, was preparing to strike or verbally attack the women, who were three or four feet behind Pentland. As a result, Pentland pushed Williams to keep him from possibly hurting his wife or neighbors, he said.

“I would have never put my hands on him other than self-defense,” Pentland testified Monday.

At the end of the confrontation, when Williams was walking away, Williams points his phone at Pentland’s house and mentioned coming back, according to testimony from Pentland, Hernandez, Wilson and Pentland’s wife.

When his attorney asked Pentland if he saw this as a threat, he said, “It was a direct threat to me and my family, 100%...There was no question in my mind he was going to be back.”

Pentland then swatted the phone out of Williams’ hand. Pentland testified he didn’t physically touch Williams, but Williams said Pentland caught his arm.

“All I did was swat the phone out of his hand. I never, never want to break his phone,” Pentland said.

The defense also claimed police made several. mistakes in conducting the investigation. While on the stand, McDaniels admitted he did not obtain audio from the original 911 call to see why police were called in the first place.

As the video of the altercation went viral and drew backlash Lott decided to file charges against Pentland, even as Pentland was still being interviewed by an investigator, McDaniels testified Monday.

The defense argued this was political interference, but McDaniels said the evidence was strong enough against Pentland that he would have signed the arrest warrant even without Lott’s involvement.

The defense also alleged law enforcement failed to conduct a thorough investigation.

“In all these investigations, when the sheriff had already made a warrant, not one of them came and asked the people who lived there what happened,” Stitely said in his closing statement. “They didn’t want the truth. They wanted to make up a bully for TV’s sake.”

Throughout the trial, the defense kept asking the question “what would you do?” if someone were in Pentland’s position. For his part, Pentland stands by his actions.

“If I were in the situation I’d do the same thing again. I can’t let someone threaten my family,” Pentland testified.

Read more here: https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article253636288.html#storylink=cpy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#42998241)

Lol at having a multi day jury trial for misdemeanor assault where the “victim” doesn’t testify. Sure Luis handles those all the time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#43000842)

Lol you are such a bitch

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#43001492)

the same people who think that nation-state borders are immoral also think that defending your own friends and family from hostile outsiders is immoral. huh. really makes you think

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4810764&forum_id=2#43000898)