An Iowa man who assaulted another man for calling him out for wearing his face mask incorrectly has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after removing it entirely and spitting in the victim’s face.
‘If I have it, you have it!’ Shane Wayne Michael told Mark Dinning after the disgusting attack, implying he had infected him with the COVID-19 virus.
Both men were at the Vision 4 Less eyewear store in Des Moines on November 11 of last year when Dinning allegedly asked the 42-year-old to secure his face mask over his nose as Michael had pulled his mask down slightly, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reports.
Michael alleged that it was Dinning who instigated the assault, claiming Dinning ‘shoulder-checked him’ and ‘poked him in the stomach’ once the two men left the store, according to the news outlet.
He told police that the fight eventually went to the ground with both men wrestling one another. Michael said he had him pinned to the ground when Dinning bit his arm, which he countered by poking his finger in Dinning’s left eye.
However, a witness named Bob Darr, as well as a store employee on scene, both told responding officers that Michael had initiated the confrontation by following Dinning out of the store before attacking him and spitting in his face.
Police ultimately arrested Michael, whose mugshot doesn’t show any visible injuries, and charged him with assault causing bodily injury.
Polk County prosecutors eventually offered him a plea deal in February, which would have allowed Michael to enter a plea of willful injury causing bodily harm, a lesser charge that would have gotten him just two years of probation, according to the Capital Dispatch.
Michael rejected the prosecutor’s plea deal before deciding upon a jury trial, with charges being upgraded to willful injury causing serious injury, a far more serious offense.
Michael was found guilty on April 1 at trial, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the class C felony on Wednesday, according to Polk County court records.
The court also temporarily waived a fine of $1,370 in consideration of his impending incarceration.
Michael’s family members spoke out about the lengthy prison sentence, which seems inordinately harsh given the nature of the crime, according to his father and wife.
‘It’s like (Dinning) got a black eye in a bar fight, and now my son is getting 10 years in prison,’ Michael’s father, Dennis Michael told the Capital Dispatch of Wednesday’s sentencing.
Meanwhile, Michael will leave behind six grown children and his wife, Becky, who told the local news outlet that she doesn’t know what she is going to do without her husband for the next 10 years.
‘He’s my rock, he’s my protector,’ she said. ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do without him. I’m lost without him.’
Michael’s father, Dennis Michael, revealed that his son rejected the initial plea deal offered because he still says he was acting in self-defense against Dinning and was not guilty of any crime, before adding that his son wears his mask lower due breathing problems caused by asthma.
‘He’s not going to cover his nose and mouth because he can’t breathe,’ his father said. ‘And there was no mask mandate in place. It was just a request by Vision 4 Less that people wear a mask, and he was.’
Read the rest and see the pics here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9681731/Iowa-man-pulled-COVID-19-mask-spat-mans-face-sentenced-10-YEARS-prison.html
I find it atrocious the spitting man would get such an onerous sentence. Actually, it makes me sick. And I detest the thought of someone spitting on me or anyone, but I think these mask freaks deserve it.
“Polk County prosecutors eventually offered him a plea deal in February, which would have allowed Michael to enter a plea of willful injury causing bodily harm, a lesser charge that would have gotten him just two years of probation, according to the Capital Dispatch.”
It’s just like Henry says on the broadcasts all the time, they want people to “take a deal” when the reality is that they have zero jurisdictional authority to charge him with anything at all. The man who was supposedly assaulted and injured would have to charge the man in his individual capacity in a Common Law Court.
Eighth Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
A decade of incarceration is beyond ludicrous. Clearly, this case is another shining example of the Bill of Rights being trampled upon and the psychopaths proclaiming they rule over us as if we are their subjects.