Attorney for Montana man who threw teen in national anthem attack says Trump rhetoric to blame

[riversedge]

Source: CBS




August 8, 2019 / 7:36 AM / AP

The attorney for a Montana man accused of throwing a 13-year-old boy to the ground at a rodeo because the teenager didn't remove his hat during the national anthem said Wednesday his client believes he was acting on an order from President Donald Trump.

The president's "rhetoric" contributed to Curt Brockway's disposition when he grabbed the boy by the throat and slammed him to the ground, fracturing his skull, at the Mineral County fairgrounds Saturday, attorney Lance Jasper told The Missoulian .

Jasper said Brockway is a U.S. Army veteran who believes he was acting on an order by the commander in chief. He added that Brockway's decision-making has been affected by a traumatic brain injury he suffered in a vehicle crash in 2000 while he was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.


"His commander in chief is telling people that if they kneel, they should be fired, or if they burn a flag, they should be punished," Jasper said. "He certainly didn't understand it was a crime."...............

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-for-montana-man-who-threw-teen-in-national-anthem-attack-says-trump-rhetoric-to-blame/

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People who follow Trump do not need a previous head injury to do dangerous things to others.

Per the article, Brockway has a brain injury, yet he was aware enough to say that the boy was disrespecting the Flag and he had a right to throw him to the ground. damn.





..........Jasper said Brockway is a U.S. Army veteran who believes he was acting on an order by the commander in chief. He added that Brockway's decision-making has been affected by a traumatic brain injury he suffered in a vehicle crash in 2000 while he was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.




Man allegedly throws 13-year-old boy to the ground for not taking hat off during national anthem

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/curt-james-brockway-national-anthem-montana-superior-mineral-county/

By Christopher Brito

August 7, 2019 / 1:22 PM / CBS News

A Montana man has been charged after he allegedly threw a 13-year-old to the ground because the boy didn't take his hat off during the national anthem at a rodeo event over the weekend, according to prosecutors. The teen was airlifted to a hospital with a possible concussion and skull fracture, Mineral County prosecutor Elena Donahue wrote in court documents, the Associated Press reported.

According to the prosecutor, Curt James Brockway, 39, told a sheriff's deputy that he asked the child to remove his hat out of respect before the "Star Spangled Banner" was played at the Mineral County Fairgrounds in Superior on Saturday. He said the boy cursed at him before Brockway grabbed him by the neck and slammed him to the floor.

A witness who was the rodeo told the Missoulian that Brockway tried justifying his actions by saying the boy "was disrespecting the national anthem so he had every right to do that."

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Bullshit. Trump's words encouraged him, but I don't buy his "traumatic brain injury" claim unless

I see a qualified physicians report.

[underpants]

2. He's going with the nutso defense

Might work. You’ve gotta be pretty messed up to take Trump seriously.

[azureblue]

34. Then if he is that easily triggered

He shouldn't be out in public, but in a "home" getting help. I seriously doubt a shrink would let a patient who is that easily triggered and prone to violence, be unsupervised in public.

[3Hotdogs]

40. If his only sorce of psych care is V.A., it is likely he never even saw a shrink.

I still hope he gets a year or two in the Hotel Graybar.

[underpants]

43. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more

They have stuff like this - has absolutely no bearing on their life at all - jammed down their throats all the time.

[customerserviceguy]

49. Once upon a time

we institutionalized mentally ill people. Now, they're "mainstreamed" and able to go out and buy weapons.

[olegramps]

5. I will wait to see how this plays out.

But a person has to not be thinking straight to support Trump. We have millions supporting a party that wants to dissolve their SS and Medicare along with ACA who would be helpless without these programs.

[sdfernando]

21. fuck that shit man!!!

the prosecution needs to subpoena ALL his medical records...both during his time in service and post. These claims must be proved by HIM otherwise it is just shit thrown on a wall. I also hope the kids family sues this guy to high heaven in civil court and takes him for every penny he has!

[Scarsdale]

24. Was he dismissed from the

service for that traumatic brain injury? If not then it is suspicious.

[3Hotdogs]

41. Doubt he will be sued. He probably ain't got nothin' to collect on if the suit is successfu..

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Wow, another using the 'Trump Defense'.

[Aristus]

8. The Trump defense is the new Twinkie defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense

[DallasNE]

23. Also

Like the drunk teenager that wasn't responsible for killing 4 people while driving drunk because his parents were wealthy and that caused him not to know it was wrong to drive while drunk - or along those lines - that wealth was a form of mental illness. And the high priced attorney's actually get them off.

[Scarsdale]

26. Affluenza?

Details on the car accident would be helpful. Was it a drunk driving accident?At first they let everyone think it was service related brain injury. Unless it happened while he was on duty, then it would be suspicious.

[Mme. Defarge]

36. Beat me to it!

It was just a matter of time.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. I've been waiting for all of Trump's tactics to filter into the courts

as excuses for miscreants, basically some excuse in the form of 'the law doesn't apply to me'. Here we have criminal as Trump automaton, programmed by Trump media tweets/speeches/words/deeds that direct people Trump never met to do a certain deed.

"Son, you were going 75 in a 35 mile per hour zone by my radar gun!"

"Officer, President Trump made me do it, he told me to obey his authority."

[IronLionZion]

6. The Trump defense

The fat orange man on TV ordered me to do it!

[enough]

7. The current version of the Twinkie Defense. NT

[ProudLib72]

9. So many excuses. What about some owning of responsibility for a change?

Whatever happened to anyone saying they had made a terrible mistake and are working to correct it? You know, I would have a hell of a lot more respect for this asshole if he just said he had explosive anger issues and was in counseling. But, of course, that would mean admitting the fault lay with him instead of the child emperor.

[groundloop]

11. True, and of course tRump is the gold standard for not taking responsibility

So once again, they're following his example.

[CrispyQ]

15. The hypocrisy of the right is stunning.

The party of personal responsibility, my ass. They always have someone else to blame.

[Talitha]

10. Excuses, excuses, excuses.

If the guy's that volatile he should be on meds, or institutionalized.

Good thing he didn't have a weapon.

[groundloop]

12. Good point..... and I bet he could have legally purchased an assault rifle

[rpannier]

14. The only reason he didn't have one was probably because he's on parole

and listed a violent

Otherwise, who knows what could have happened

[MontanaMama]

30. He's on probation for assault with a weapon...

He pulled a gun on a family and threatened to kill them all. I’m researching whether he did this before or after the car accident and alleged brain injury. This is going to blow up, I fear. I called and emailed the court who released this guy in the hope of rattling a few cages. Letting him out of jail seems incredibly unreasonable to me. Brockway appears in court here in Missoula on August 14th before judge John Larson...I’m hopeful the tRump defense doesn’t play well there.

[bronxiteforever]

38. +1

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

13. Ah, the "Flip Wilson" defense

[Texin]

16. Oh, wow. Now people are using the Trump defense strategy. What a world.

[blugbox]

17. Brockway is a U.S. Army veteran who believes he was acting on an order by the commander in chief.

That sentence just disgusts me.

Yeah, he didn't take off his hat, so prez says choke slam the child to the ground and smash his skull!!

If there are truly this many violently mentally ill people out there, they need to bring back institutions or something... people that close to the edge of child murder just hangin out makes me very uncomfortable

[colorado_ufo]

22. Funny that you would mention that today, about the institutions.

My friend, a lady of almost 90 years old, mentioned that yesterday to me. She said that communities used to have places to keep people like this, but now they are just released into the community.

[blugbox]

29. Yes, and I do not mean it in a harmful way at all.

Hopefully it would be a place of healing and comfort.

If my own mother lost her mind to the point where she started acting out violently and was a danger to others, I would want her to be somewhere safe from the public and vice versa. I know it is an extremely difficult subject, and nothing just "works out" like that... but doing nothing cannot be an option either.

[colorado_ufo]

57. The challenge will be in finding these people.

Families "protect" them out of loyalty, guilt, and/or shame.

[Gothmog]

18. Lock him up

[Xipe Totec]

19. I was just following Orange. nt

[barbtries]

20. this seems like a pretty thin defense.

if it flies, would it absolve mass shooters like the kid in El Paso?

also, if this guy really thought that felonious assault was legal if it was done against a child who was being disrespectful, he's fucking stupid. also not a credible defense.

[B Stieg]

25. And how many guns does this "citizen" own?

I do not think this will end well.

[elias7]

27. So R's, is Trump's rhetoric inflammatory or not?

In one breath, they’ll say that his rhetoric is not to blame for El Paso and Toledo (read: Dayton), and in another they’ll use his rhetoric as a defense. Stunning hypocrisy.

[WinstonSmith4740]

28. If I'm not mistaken...

The military can refuse an order they feel is unlawful, even from the Commander-In-Chief, although at their own peril. https://www.thebalancecareers.com/military-orders-3332819

This is just another wing nut looking to blame someone else for their actions.

[Fritz Walter]

31. Another possible reason for this defense: he wants Agolf Twitler to pay his legal fees

As was promised on the campaign trail 3 years ago:

“If you do (hurt him), I’ll defend you in court, don’t worry about it”

Trump said this during another rally in March 2016, this time at Macomb County Community College in Warren, Michigan. The familiar pattern was on display — a small group of protesters outstays their welcome and are forcibly removed from the venue, and Trump encourages violence among his followers.

Addressing a particular section of the crowd, Trump says “Yeah get him out, try not to hurt him. If you do I’ll defend you in court, don’t worry about it.”

Source: Snopes

[RT Atlanta]

32. Did the child's parent(s) fight back during the assault?

I can only imagine the fright factor with them (and the child of course) but curious how long it took folks to pull the assaulter off the child.

[Cartaphelius]

33. Isn't that just another example the innocence of the gun?

Trumps gave him the bullet and the permission and the authority to chamber
the round.

According to the NRA and the right, the gun isn't fault, even though it had a hair
trigger. It wasn't the bullets fault because without the gun, it is supposedly inert.

But in truth, when was the last time hate was inert?

The "moron" that is the loaded gun that discharged the hate given freely to him
by another moron.

[titanicdave]

35. ....That is...

....just plain old everyday.....BULLSHIT......if I ever heard it.....

[marble falls]

37. And the lawyer kept a straight face while saying this?

[PatrickforO]

39. In the meantime, because we have crappy, rationed healthcare with

financially crippling copays, this family might be out tens of thousands of dollars and now heading toward bankruptcy because of this Trump supporter nut job.

So, once again Republicans put the screws to us from both ends - shareholders just HAVE to have their profits, even if it means poor treatment or no treatment, and Trump's supporters are so ignorant they feel they can do violence to anyone they want who isn't like them or who doesn't do what they think Trump has 'ordered.'

[spike91nz]

42. Sounds like

A good basis to a law suit against Trump et al.

[The Mouth]

44. Bullshit

[Vinca]

45. Cue the orchestra of tiny violins.

I love the way they always claim they were nuts when they did it.

[jayfish]

46. Here's Yet Another Example of Us Playing Things Incorrectly.

Embrace this. It's Trumps fault! I still would have knocked that fucker out had I watched him do it.

[ancianita]

47. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. No excuse.

[Nevermypresident]

48. Red Don is radicalizing...there's no doubt. I guess his attorney is hoping for a majority of

rethugs on the jury (if a trial by jury happens in this case).

[Jose Garcia]

50. If true,

this guy should be locked up in a mental facility for the rest of his life.

[SoCalNative]

51. So he's basically saying what we all have known for ages

Trump supporters are all brain-damaged idiots.

[hatrack]

52. Whatever, Counselor . . .

[Ilsa]

53. Then he's DANGEROUS. Lock him up,

even if it is in a VA center.

[Bayard]

54. So patriotic!

HE FRACTURED THIS KID'S SKULL!

[Judi Lynn]

55. Man accused of fracturing 13-year-old's skull for not removing hat during national anthem

08/06/2019 4:50 pm PDT

SUPERIOR, Mont. (WJW/CNN) -- A Montana man is accused of assaulting a teenage boy during the national anthem at the Mineral County Fairgrounds this weekend, according to KPAX.

Witnesses told deputies the suspect grabbed, picked up and slammed the boy on the ground — apparently because he did not remove his hat during the national anthem.

Within minutes after dropping her son off at the fairgrounds, Megan Keeler says she received a phone call stating her son was on his way to the hospital.

. . .

“He’s deathly afraid of strangers. He doesn’t remember anything. All the witnesses I have talked to said this was completely random,” Keeler said. “There was no exchange – nothing! He targeted Wally and took him down,” she added.

. . .

This is not Brockway’s first run in with police. KPAX obtained court documents from a 2010 incident when he pleaded guilty to an assault with a weapon charge. In that 2010 incident, Brockway pulled up to a parked vehicle, got out and pulled a gun on a family and stated he was going to kill them.

He was sentenced to 10 years with the Montana Department of Corrections, all of which were suspended.

https://truecrimedaily.com/2019/08/06/man-accused-of-fracturing-13-year-olds-skull-for-not-removing-hat-during-national-anthem/

[Skittles]

56. ridiculous

he beat a CHILD

[Locrian]

58. wtf is wrong with these judges?

WTF? Oh yeah, he's white. Think any brown person or Muslim, etc would get these breaks?
Somebody needs to have a hard look at these judges...

This is not Brockway’s first run in with police. KPAX obtained court documents from a 2010 incident when he pleaded guilty to an assault with a weapon charge. In that 2010 incident, Brockway pulled up to a parked vehicle, got out and pulled a gun on a family and stated he was going to kill them.
He was sentenced to 10 years with the Montana Department of Corrections, all of which were suspended.


The state requested that Brockway’s bond be set to $100,000, but a judge ruled that Brockway can be released on his own recognizance.

[Tarc]

59. Here we go with the "mental illness" angle, which sever DU'ers pushed for the recent shooters, too

Pathetic.