Concord Monitor – by JEREMY BLACKMAN
A legal fund has been established for the Brentwood man who was arrested and subdued with a Taser two weeks ago at a gun control rally outside the State House, according to supporters.
Daniel Musso, a 52-year-old gun rights advocate, was charged the night of the rally with misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and simple assault after he heckled a speaker and touched a police officer on the shoulder. He was released from jail on $5,000 cash bail hours after the incident and is scheduled for an appearance at Concord’s district court in August, according to the Concord police.
Jack Kimball, a former gubernatorial candidate and chairman of the state Republican Party who organized a counter-rally at the event, of which Musso had been a part, notified supporters late last week about the fund. Kimball said he did not create the fund and did not reveal yesterday who did.
Last week, the state branch of pro-Second Amendment group Gun Rights Across America promoted the fundraising effort on its Facebook page, publishing in a post: “Let’s Help out a True Patriot and a Vet. For those of you that Know Mr. Musso then you know that he is facing a Long Legal Battle. Let’s try to help him out. Please donate to Daniel Musso’s legal fund: TD Bank, N.A. 32 Chestnut Street, PO Box 1377, Lewiston, ME 04243-1377.”
The group’s state organizer, Christopher Smart, said it did not establish the fund. Despite promoting it, Smart added his organization did not condone Musso’s behavior at the rally.
In his email to supporters, Kimball indicated that Musso had hired an attorney to represent him on the charges, and he faced unforeseen legal fees. He added that the court had ordered Musso to turn in his weapons following the arrest, which the Concord police confirmed had been a condition of his bail, though they said they had no record that he had turned in any weapons. An officer at the Brentwood Police Department also said they had no record of confiscating any weapons.
News of the fund came only days after Musso’s house was badly damaged by a chimney fire, which resulted in about $150,000 in damage, said firefighter Joe Bird of the Brentwood Fire Department.
Musso would not comment yesterday about the fund, the arrest or the fire.
In his email to supporters, Kimball said he felt compelled to help Musso after hearing about the fire and witnessing the arrest, which he characterized as unfounded because Musso had done nothing wrong.
“I can’t tell you how upset this has made me,” he wrote, noting what he indicated to be Musso’s multiple ties to law enforcement and the military, including two sons serving in Afghanistan.
Video footage from the rally showed Musso apparently resisting arrest and, concurrently, informing an officer with a Taser pointed at his chest that he had a heart condition. Musso eventually freed an arm from behind his back, where two other officers were attempting to handcuff him, and the officer with the Taser fired the weapon.
“I was an eye witness to what happened and I can tell you, with certainty, that the man who was tazed did not deserve the treatment he received from the Concord Police Department,” Kimball wrote. “It should have been handled completely differently.”
(Jeremy Blackman can be reached at 369-3319, jblackman@cmonitor.com or on Twitter @JBlackmanCM.)
I like the way they put it when trying to defend their treason. “This is the list of people that have been killed by guns since December”, like the guns just went out on a road cruise for a killing spree. When will these morons realize that guns aren’t the problem, people are the problem. If most of these killers couldn’t have accessed a gun, they would have found a knife, fork, pick axe, coal shovel, tire iron, brick, rubber hose, or whatever else would have been at their disposal. Do we need to ban all tools to “keep us safe” because I know a screwdriver can be a deadly weapon. Come on people, it’s a nationwide effort to disarm the American people and anyone with their head pulled out of their arse knows it.
Are the names of people shot by police on the list? right.
lol lol lol tazed and three cops still cant put his hands in cuffs and he wasnt even fighting just not complying. lol
11+11
I love it we are forbidden from touch but I counted multiple touches from them on bystanders while they were trying to make that man bend to their will they are going to keep it up till the bystander doesn’t just stand there any longer and when the boots start flying you see them run the gig is up we know we outnumber you a thousand to one so just keep it up
Hey Nobodysname, you make an excellent point and I believe a fuse has been lit and it won’t take much to set the blaze of freedom afire.
Hey All We need a heaping helping of this mindset.
Steve, you amaze me with your ability to bring up clips or songs relevant to the topic. Kudos!
Hey Millard Again I am undeserving,I simply go to utube to watch the source and usually see related clips on the page,then do that copy pastey thing(which #1 explained way back then) do the complicated mathmatical problem and hit post,now you know all my secrets.
Steve
One of my favorite shows growing up.
Cops like Andy are a thing of the past.
The distant pass.
LOL, Go get em Gomer. 🙂 Good one steve 🙂