Pramila Jayapal isn’t a Supreme Court Justice so whatever
With all the hand wringing about Brett Kavanaugh leaving a restaurant before he got his dessert because protesters had gathered outside you’d think the right might care about the massive numbers of armed right wing, racist crazies wandering the streets threatening liberals. They are harassing and intimidating school board members, public health officials, election workers — and Democrats. But I doubt they will.
Here’s one that just happened:
A 48-year-old South Seattle man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of a hate crime for threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, according to King County prosecutors.
A judge on Monday ordered the man remain jailed in lieu of $500,000 bail but denied prosecutors’ request for an anti-harassment order protecting Jayapal, said Casey McNerthney, a prosecutors spokesperson.
Jayapal, 56, is a former state senator who became the first Indian American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016. A Democrat, Jayapal represents Washington’s 7th Congressional District, which includes most of Seattle. Jayapal was born in India and came to the U.S. at 16 to begin college at Georgetown University. […]
Seattle police arrested the man outside Jayapal’s house at 11:25 p.m. Saturday after she called 911 and reported an unknown person or people were in a vehicle outside, using obscene language, according to a probable cause statement. She told a dispatcher her husband thought someone may have fired a pellet gun, but he wasn’t sure, the statement says.
Officers found the man standing in the middle of the street with his hands in the air and a .40-caliber handgun holstered on his waist, the probable cause statement says. Police detained the man and secured the gun.
A neighbor told police she heard the man yell something to the effect of, “Go back to India, I’m going to kill you,” the statement says. The neighbor also saw and heard the man drive by Jayapal’s residence at least three times, yelling profanities, according to the statement.
The man told officers after his arrest that he knew who lives in the house and that he wanted to pitch a tent on their property, the statement says.
We don’t know if it was explicitly political but it was explicitly racist — which makes it political. But hey, she got to eat her dessert that night so it’s no big deal.