A defendant whose attack on a judge was captured in a wild courtroom video is scheduled to appear before her again.

A defendant who was captured in courtroom video leaping over a judge’s bench and attacking her, touching off a bloody brawl, is scheduled to appear before her again Monday morning.

In his Jan. 3 appearance before Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus, Deobra Redden, who was facing prison time for a felony battery charge stemming from a baseball bat attack last year, tried to convince the judge that he was turning around his violent past.

Redden asked for leniency while describing himself as “a person who never stops trying to do the right thing no matter how hard it is.”

But when it became clear Holthus was going to sentence him to prison time, and as the court marshal moved to handcuff and take him into custody, Redden yelled expletives and charged forward. People in the courtroom audience, including his foster mother, began to scream.

    • kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      132·
      11 months ago

      Good thing we all decided we were too sensitive for the ol’ /s and that this kind of misunderstanding never happens

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
        610·
        11 months ago

        If you need a /s to realize that was sarcasm you don’t have the reading comprehension/social skills to be on the internet by yourself anyway.

        • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
          103·
          11 months ago

          I had that attitude until I stumbled on people who clearly must live in upside-down world. The “/s” is essential for a site where that relies on text as the medium and where people will have no prior knowledge of the writer.

          Sarcasm in the real world can usually be understood through body language and tone. We don’t have that here.

        • otp
          62·
          11 months ago

          Lol talking about social skills while not knowing that sarcasm is generally conveyed with changes and tone and other markers that aren’t possible with text…

          • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
            52·
            11 months ago

            I picked up on that being sarcasm just fine. The context of the comment was plenty to assume that.

        • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
          33·
          11 months ago

          Poe’s law is an adage of internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law