Francis Gerald Grady,
charged with bombing Planned Parenthood
Via TPM:
The man arrested in connection with the weekend bombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wisconsin is 50-year-old Francis Gerald Grady, a police official confirmed to TPM. [...]
Wisconsin court records show Grady has a history of run-ins with the law. Most recently, on March, 30, he was charged with resisting or obstructing a police officer.
In August 2011, Grady was sentenced to two months in jail and a year of probation after pleading no contest to a similar charge of resisting or obstructing a police officer.
Grady’s court records show he was also accused of skipping out on his bail a number of times, including three times in 2005 and once in 2007.
In 2004, court records show, Grady was accused of manufacturing or distributing cocaine. He was sentenced to a year and a half in prison and three and a half years on supervised released.
According to the FBI, Grady "is charged with arson of a building used in interstate commerce [...] and intentionally damaging the property of a facility that provides reproductive health services."
Oh, and then there's this utterly not-shocking bit:
Investigators are looking into the possibility that the man accused in the weekend bombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wisconsin may have been involved with anti-abortion protests there in the past, a police official told TPM on Wednesday. [...]
Grand Chute Police Chief Greg Peterson said investigators in the case learned that Grady may have been involved in past protests at the office. The information was so far unconfirmed, Peterson said, but it is being looked at closely by the team of local and federal investigators handling the case.
“There was some indication that surfaced at some point that he has been involved in some of the demonstrations,” Peterson told TPM. But the chief described the information as coming from “someone who didn’t have direct knowledge,” so there was still more work to be done.
But
remember, let's not rush to judgment and assume that the terrorist who attacked Planned Parenthood has a record of involvement with the forced birthers just because
that is always the case every single time a terrorist attacks a women's health care provider. This might turn out to be the one time in history when the terrorist really is just a lone lunatic with no agenda of terrorizing doctors and their patients. We'll just have to wait and see.
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