He said a group of protesters accused him of being in the Ku Klux Klan and that someone had already punched him in the face. Scarsella, who is white, testified he was afraid of being attacked while filming the protest on the night of Nov. He is scheduled to be sentenced on March 10 and could face up to 19 years in prison. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said his office will seek “the stiffest possible sentence” for Scarsella. Prosecutors accused the men of being white supremacists and trying to disrupt the protest. In one video that was shot in a car while Scarsella and a friend were driving to an earlier protest, Scarsella is heard saying he is “on a mission” and “locked and loaded” while holding a gun. The station reports that Scarsella was identified in a video taken the night of the shootings waving a handgun and making racially-charged statements about the Black Lives Matter protesters. Prosecutors argued that the shootings were racially-motivated.
45-caliber handgun and fired at demonstrators in what his attorneys say was self-defense.ĬBS Minnesota reports that jurors saw numerous text messages Scarsella sent friends, including one saying, “Cool – the gun I’m getting is proven to kill black guys in a single shot.” Scarsella, who has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, brought a. Scarsella and three other men, all wearing face masks, went into an encampment outside a police station in north Minneapolis to livestream Black Lives Matter protests that had closed down a city block.
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