SAN DIEGO - A U.S. Navy SEAL platoon leader accused of war crimes in Iraq was acquitted by a military jury on Tuesday of murder and all other charges except for unlawfully posing with the corpse of a captive Islamic State fighter.
Navy authorities said Gallagher had credit for nearly seven months of time already served in pretrial custody, so he would presumably remain a free man. But he could face other punishment, such as a demotion in rank and reduced pay. The jury also heard from two doctors who specialize in brain injuries. They said Gallagher suffered 11 documented concussions during his combat career, putting him at higher risk of brain degeneration and visual impairments that will require ongoing medical attention.U.S.
Gallagher also was charged with attempted murder in the wounding of two unarmed civilians - a schoolgirl and an elderly man — shot from a sniper’s perch, as well as with firing deliberately on other non-combatants and with obstruction of justice. Trump intervened in Gallagher’s case months ago, ordering he be moved from pretrial detention in a military brig to confinement at a Navy base. The presiding judge later released Gallagher from custody altogether, in a rebuke to prosecutors for pretrial conduct the judge said had infringed on the Navy SEAL’s right to fair proceedings.The chief petty officer was arrested in 2018, more than a year after returning from his eighth overseas deployment in Mosul, in northern Iraq.
Of course, the Americans ,Uber Nation...
Well you can BET YOU'RE LIFE that most of the radicalized, PRO-MUSLIM Democrats will all be ROOTING for the MUSLIM, & not the American Navy Seal. Cause we all know how much the Democrats HATE America! 'The HATE Party!' 'We HATE everything!'
Igual que las películas
Super
Call me crazy but maybe they should now rescind the immunity and charge the guy that claimed he did it. There are conditions attached to granting immunity and being an admitted murderer probably isn't one of them.
He sticks a knife up the neck of an injured prisoner infront of 5 witnesses and gets away scot free. This is called new American justice. Sad day for American jurisprudence
this is going to come back and bite you in the face - you called it a bubble before you were President and now it is an even BIGGER BUBBLE
Egregious, period.
Hey, if someone else said they did it & the Prosecutors didn't ask the right questions, what you expected...?
Guilty as fuck. The court martial justice system is a joke over there.
Fantastic, heroes are well trained to perform at 110 percent of their capabilities, who cares how the enemies of the USA are killed.,god will sort them out
Rational Opinion: The navy consulted with the Israelis on how to acquit war criminals.
USA the greatest. The police of the world? This is how you treat your murderers
This is yet another war crime to add to the list, Abu Graib, Nisour Square massacre & the routine murders of civilians in Iraq by US military & contractors(Blackwater etc.), that are on the record & part of a dark chapter, with no consequence contrary to US moral values.
Even war crimes is ok for realDonaldTrump
NOW THERE A SURPRISE, CORRUPTION TO SUIT THE COUNTRY, JUSTICE NOT SERVED!!
And you wonder why good cops won’t turn on their trigger happy racist coworkers. His fellow soldiers had the courage to stand up against this child killer and they were left hanging.
Took one for POTUS interesting to see which way his career goes maybe into the WhiteHouse maybe benefits
Fantastic
Another psychopath on the loose. He’ll probably get a job as a border patrol agent or with ICe.
Another sad day for America, the U.S. military and the rule of law.
How is this better than what the other countries did to our troops when caught? This is sick and disgusting.
Disgraceful
Good on trump hope he gives all the soldiers needing pardons a pardon . IRA got pardons british soldiers get jailed.
waiting for him to kill again...
Of course willfully executing civilians and detainees is ok. It's not like we'll ever make an honest attempt to win hearts and minds. It's better for the MIC if antipathy for America is cultivated and grown. Our claim to the moral high ground was always a sham.
Of course he was. US war criminals don't get convicted in the USA today, they get Cabinet positions with Traitor realDonaldTrump fascist regime (protected by SpeakerPelosi , who is aiding and abetting his reelection efforts).
Idk how I feel about this, ... what he did was a war crime and the USA 🇺🇸 is better then the enemy we fought right?!
just wow
It's a victory for the CRIMINALS just like that scumbag trump CRIMINALS PROTECT ONE ANOTHER
When u get away w/ war crimes
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