Police horse kicked during white supremacy rally
Kalamazoo, MI (US)Incident Date: Saturday, Aug 4, 2007
County: Kalamazoo
Charges: Misdemeanor
Disposition: Convicted
Defendant/Suspect: Bruce Coyle Rader
Criminal cases against two men arrested during an Aug. 4 rally in Kalamazoo by white supremacists have been resolved.
Bruce Coyle Rader, 53, of Kalamazoo, pleaded guilty in Oct 2007 to a reduced charge of harassing a police animal, a misdemeanor. Kalamazoo County District Judge Anne E. Blatchford ordered him to pay $140 in fines and court costs.
Rader was originally charged with two counts of harassing a police animal while committing a crime, a felony. A Kalamazoo Gazette video showed Rader kicking a police horse during a rally sponsored by white supremacist Hal Turner and held at the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety headquarters.
James Robert Capps, 42, of Kalamazoo, was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail by Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge Gary C. Giguere Jr. on one count of assaulting/resisting/obstructing a police officer. He could have faced up to two years in prison on the felony charge. Two other charges against him, carrying a concealed weapon (a knife) and refusing to be fingerprinted, were dismissed.
Hearings are scheduled for next week in cases against two women arrested after the rally during a gathering in Bronson Park. Sasha Vanessa Acker, 20, of Kalamazoo, and Emily Ann Roth, 22, of Lansing, were each arrested on a misdemeanor charge of interfering with a public safety officer, punishable by up to 90 days in jail. References |
