一名幻想杀害“犹太人和黑人”的白人至上主义者在一个很少使用的联邦武器指控中被判入狱10个月之后被判处服刑。
据法院提交的文件显示，30岁的华盛顿特区的杰弗里·克拉克于2018年底被两名家庭成员引起了当局的注意，他们对匹兹堡犹太教堂大屠杀后的言论感到震惊。
调查此案的联邦调查局特工在宣誓证词中表示，这些家庭成员告诉他克拉克在枪击事件后发表的具体言论，包括捍卫射手罗伯特鲍尔斯的言论以及关于杀害少数民族的言论。
根据联邦调查局特工的说法，目击者报告说，克拉克“被激怒了”并“激动不已”，因为担心“克拉克可能对自己或他人造成危险”而引起了该机构的注意。
在匹兹堡大屠杀之后数小时，克拉克的兄弟爱德华自杀了。大约在那个时候，新闻媒体一直在报道，包括鲍尔斯在内的白人至上主义者经常光顾的社交媒体平台Gab正在与执法部门合作。联邦调查局官员说，爱德华和杰弗里都是加蓬的用户，杰弗里是平台上的鲍尔斯的朋友。
与父亲，姐妹和兄弟住在一起的杰弗里·克拉克最终被联邦武器指控逮捕，该指控禁止非法毒品使用者拥有枪支。在7月份认罪时，另一项涉及拥有在华盛顿特区非法的大容量杂志的指控被撤销。
“爱德华的自杀，再加上克拉克先生在过去10个月中被关押在DC监狱，导致克拉克先生重新评估了他在年轻生活中做出的许多选择 - 特别是那些引起他注意的选择执法部门，“克拉克的辩护律师在他的量刑听证会之前写道。“他对这些选择深感抱歉，并致力于在未来做出更好的选择。克拉克先生明白他的年轻生活已经到了一个重要的十字路口。他无法摆脱过去，但他有动力和支持更光明的未来。“
根据刑事诉讼，克拉克将自己的Gab形象描述为“#DemoKKKrat”和“彻底的切格瓦拉”。
虽然克拉克的罪行可能被处以10年监禁，但政府的官方量刑指南 - 被法院认为是权威的，虽然不是强制性的 - 只建议10至16个月的监禁时间，并有可能增加条件监督释放。
联邦检察官建议指导范围规定的最低刑期和额外三年的监督释放。美国地方法院法官蒂莫西凯利似乎接受了政府的建议，宣判克拉克为自去年11月被捕以来忍受的10多个月监禁服刑。未来三年，Clark也将受到监督释放的监控。
A white supremacist who fantasized about killing "Jews and blacks" was sentenced to time served on Friday after spending 10 months in jail on a rarely used federal weapons charge.
Jeffrey Clark, 30, of Washington, D.C., was brought to the attention of authorities in late 2018 by two family members who were alarmed about statements he had made in the wake of the Pittsburgh Synagogue massacre, according to court filings.
An FBI agent investigating the case said in sworn testimony that he was told by these family members about specific comments Clark made after the shooting, including remarks defending shooter Robert Bowers and musing about killing minorities.
According to the FBI agent, the witnesses reported that Clark was "really riled up" and "agitated," bringing the matter to the agency's attention "out of concern that [Clark] could be a danger to himself or others."
Hours after the Pittsburgh massacre, Clark's brother, Edward, took his own life. Around that time, news outlets had been reporting that Gab, a social media platform frequented by white supremacists including Bowers, was cooperating with law enforcement. Edward and Jeffrey were both Gab users and Jeffrey was friends with Bowers on the platform, the FBI official said.
Jeffrey Clark, who lived with his father, sister and brother, was ultimately picked up on a federal weapons charge that prohibits users of illicit drugs from owning firearms. Another charge relating to the possession of high-capacity magazines, illegal in D.C., was dropped when he pleaded guilty in July.
"Edward's suicide, coupled with Mr. Clark's detention at the D.C. Jail for the last 10 months, has caused Mr. Clark to re-evaluate many of the choices he has made in his young life — especially those choices that brought him to the attention of law enforcement," Clark's defense attorney wrote ahead of his sentencing hearing. "He is deeply sorry for those choices and is committed to making better choices in the future. Mr. Clark understands he has reached a significant crossroad in his young life. He can't escape his past but he has the motivation and support for a brighter future."
According to the criminal complaint, Clark described himself on his Gab profile as a "#DemoKKKrat" and the "Che Guevara of the altright."
While Clark's offense carried with it a potential penalty of 10 years imprisonment, the government's official sentencing guidelines — which are seen as authoritative, although not mandatory, by the courts — only recommended 10 to 16 months jail time, with the possibility of the additional condition of supervised release.
Federal prosecutors recommended the minimum sentence set forth by the guidelines range and an additional three years of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly appears to have accepted the government's recommendation, sentencing Clark to time served for the more than 10 months imprisonment he endured since his arrest last November. Clark will also be monitored under supervised release for the next three years.
