Jerry Sena, the attorney representing domestic terrorist and Neo-Nazi Taylor Michael Wilson for attempting to stop an Amtrak train in Nebraska while carrying a weapon, has said that the charges against his client are “blown significantly out of proportion” and that Wilson “comes from a decent family...”
Taylor Michael Wilson, a 26-year-old from Missouri, is accused of breaching a secured area while armed with a handgun and setting off the emergency brake on an Amtrak train as it passed through a remote part of Nebraska in the early morning hours of Oct. 22. The incident didn’t garner much press coverage at the time, and Wilson, who was facing local charges, was even allowed to leave jail after posting bond last month. But the FBI arrested Wilson just before Christmas, and federal prosecutors unsealed the terrorism charges against him last week. The Justice Department never informed reporters about the case.
Wilson’s attorney, who was first hired by his family in connection with the state charges and is now representing him in the federal case, told HuffPost he was “kind of surprised when the feds did get involved,” even though they knew of the investigation and that federal charges were a possibility.
“I believe it’s been blown significantly out of proportion,” said attorney Jerry Sena. “That’s all I’ll say about that….
...He noted that Wilson had a full-time job and didn’t have a criminal record. “He comes from a decent family,” Sena said, mentioning that his father is involved in ministry. “As far as I know, nobody in the family has any kind of criminal background or history whatsoever.”
Yeah.
Wilson boards a train in California, armed with a .38 with a speed-loading clip with extra clips in his back-pack, breaks into an area where he can exercise control of the train and tries to stop it... and his lawyer doesn’t understands why the Feds are involved.
Obviously nothing for the feds to investigate here...
“In the documents, federal prosecutors say that Wilson was apprehended while traveling from Sacramento to St. Louis via Amtrak on October 22 after an assistant conductor noticed the train braking — and found Wilson in a restricted area, "playing with the controls."
"I'm the conductor, bitch," he allegedly told the Amtrak crew members who rushed in.
The crew fought him into submission, and the train was stopped in Oxford, Nebraska, for about an hour until federal agents could take Wilson into custody.
Wilson behaved erratically, the agents would later write. Noticing a bulge in his front left pocket, a deputy asked him, "What is this?” Wilson allegedly replied, "My dick." The deputy located a loaded speedloader with .38 bullets, as well as a fully loaded 38 caliber handgun in his front waistband. Wilson also had a business card for the National Socialist Movement.”
In Wilson’s home cops found a tactical vest, 11 AR-15 (rifle) ammunition magazines with approximately 190 rounds of .223 ammunition, one drum-style ammunition magazine for a rifle, firearms tactical accessories (lights), 100 rounds of 9 mm ammunition, approximately 840 rounds of 5.45x39 rifle ammunition, white supremacy documents and paperwork, several additional handgun and rifle magazines, gunpowder, ammunition-reloading supplies, and a pressure plate.
Also tucked into a cubby behind his fridge police found fifteen firearms, including a fully-automatic rifle and ammunition and a tactical body armor carrier with ceramic ballistic plates.
And, oh yeah — alt-right postings and "documents on how to kill people."
Wilson also attended the hate fest in Charlottesville and was also a suspect, but not convicted, of pointing a weapon at a black woman in a road rage incident in April, 2016 when the woman called his license plate number into police. Police claim the woman couldn’t be contacted to press charges and he was released.
And now, because his father “involved in ministry” (whatever the hell that means) he is painted as a fine upstanding Christian.
If he were black and/or Muslim he’d be halfway to Gitmo by now.