{"id":14524,"date":"2020-04-23T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=14524"},"modified":"2020-04-23T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:50:26","slug":"duncan-lemps-parents-threatened-with-jail-for-protesting-his-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/23\/duncan-lemps-parents-threatened-with-jail-for-protesting-his-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Lemp&#8217;s Parents Threatened with Jail for Protesting his Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lemp-SWAT-combo-photo-TAC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14416\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lemp-SWAT-combo-photo-TAC-800x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lemp-SWAT-combo-photo-TAC-800x278.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lemp-SWAT-combo-photo-TAC-1024x356.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lemp-SWAT-combo-photo-TAC-150x52.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lemp-SWAT-combo-photo-TAC-768x267.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lemp-SWAT-combo-photo-TAC.jpg 1146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>A<\/h3>\n<h3>merican Conservative, April 23, 2020<\/h3>\n<h1 class=\"c-single-blog__title c-title wow animated\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/duncan-lemps-parents-threatened-with-jail-for-protesting-his-killing\/\"><span class=\"c-title-inner\">Duncan Lemp\u2019s Parents Threatened With Jail For Protesting His Killing<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-single-blog__subtitle c-subtitle \">\n<p class=\"c-subtitle__inner\">While mum on why a SWAT team shot the software developer while he lay sleeping, a Maryland prosecutor suggests COVID order trump&#8217;s Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-single-blog__image-description\">Duncan Lemp in 2019 (Courtesy of Lemp family) and stock photo SWAT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/police-tactical-swat-team-gathered-round-1069921367?src=jc7p722BTTlXyhRr8lgCuA-1-0\u201d\">CLP Media\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-single-blog__post-meta c-post-meta \">\n<div class=\"c-post-meta__inner\"><a class=\"c-post-meta__author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/author\/jim-bovard\/\">by\u00a0 Jim Bovard <\/a><\/div>\n<section class=\"c-post-meta__social-share c-social-share c-social-share--default\">\n<div class=\"c-social-share__group\" data-module=\"socialShare\" data-initialized=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-single-blog__content c-content \">\n<p>It has been six weeks since a SWAT team shot and killed 21-year-old Duncan Lemp in a 4:30 a.m. raid at his family\u2019s home in Potomac, Maryland, and affluent and sedate suburb of Washington, D.C. Montgomery County Police have thus far refused to provide any evidence on how or why they killed Lemp.\u00a0 But a county prosecutor leaped to action on Wednesday, effectively threatening any Lemp family members who attend a protest over his killing <a href=\"https:\/\/bethesdamagazine.com\/bethesda-beat\/coronavirus\/hogan-issues-statewide-stay-at-home-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with a $5000 fine and a year in jail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reason? Maryland\u2019s strict stay-at-home orders, imposed by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan last month.<\/p>\n<p>As I reported in <i>American Conservative <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/did-maryland-police-shoot-and-kill-a-sleeping-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-mystery-deepens-over-the-pre-dawn-police-killing-of-duncan-lemp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here,<\/a> a Montgomery County SWAT team launched an unprovoked attack on the Lemp family home at 4:30 a.m. on March 12.\u00a0 Lemp was fatally wounded by the first shots that the police fired through his bedroom window. His family says he was sleeping in bed with his pregnant girlfriend at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Police claim that they received an anonymous tip two months earlier that Lemp possessed firearms. The police department asserted\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymcpnews.com\/2020\/03\/17\/update-officer-involved-shooting-in-potomac-additional-information-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lemp was prohibited from owning firearms<\/a> due to a juvenile conviction but there are apparently zero court records or other records to support that justification.\u00a0 Regardless of Lemp\u2019s juvenile history, there was no evidence that he posed an imminent threat justifying a frontal assault that included throwing flash-bang explosive devices into the family home.<\/p>\n<p>But now Montgomery County has a new imminent threat\u2014angry relatives of the guy they killed. County prosecutor Haley Roberts sent a warning letter to Lemp family lawyers Jonathan Fellner and <a href=\"https:\/\/sandlerlawllc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rene Sandler<\/a>: \u201cOpen source information indicates that your clients intend to participate in this planned protest\u201d over the killing of Duncan Lemp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/justice-for-duncan-lemp\/511104363129381\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at Montgomery County Police headquarters on April 25<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cOpen source\u201d apparently means that the local police are tracking Lemp family members on social media, where <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23duncanlemp&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Lemp killing is still enraging legions<\/a> of folks. Roberts warned that Gov. Hogan\u2019s \u201c\u2018stay-at-home\u2019 order\u2026 does not appear to include planned protests.\u201d\u00a0 Roberts stated that the county police department asked the lawyers to remind the Lemp family \u201cof the Governor\u2019s orders, as well as the charge from those orders and state law mandating law enforcement must enforce these orders.\u201d At least the prosecutor did not hint that the SWAT team would attack them if they showed up.<\/p>\n<p>Sandler fired off a testy reply: \u201cAs a matter of law, you are wrong.\u00a0 There is absolutely no basis for the arrest of any citizen in this State if such individual exercises their first amendment right\u2026 to peacefully assemble so long as social distancing of 6 feet is practiced and there are groups of no more than 10 people gathered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An unprovoked killing of an innocent man as he lay in bed is exactly the type of tyrannical abuse that Americans should protest. But Montgomery County officials apparently believe they can suppress protestors the same way that they have thus far covered up the SWAT killing.<\/p>\n<p>While the county police have time to surveil Lemp family members online, police chief Marcus Jones has refused to meet with the Lemp family. The police department refuses to even name the policeman who killed Lemp in the predawn attack or to provide any other information to the family about the fatal raid. The county also rebuffed a comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/firearmspolicycoalition\/pages\/4914\/attachments\/original\/1585157143\/2020-3-xx-MD-Montgomery-County-Lemp-Request_%281%29.pdf?1585157143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">information request from the Firearms Policy Coalitio<\/a>n, asserting that an ongoing investigation justified disclosing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-mystery-deepens-over-the-pre-dawn-police-killing-of-duncan-lemp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sealed the search warrant<\/a>, which was granted on the day before the raid, for 30 days. However, because Montgomery County courts are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the county is refusing to disclose the search warrant. Sandler filed an emergency motion to get the search warrant unsealed but that may not spur results for a few more weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Will the search warrant affidavits explain why the SWAT team chose to turn a search warrant into a death warrant?\u00a0 Sandler has been told that there is a homicide investigation ongoing into the killing of Duncan Lemp, potentially putting one or more SWAT team members in the legal crosshairs. But police unions have Maryland legislators practically in their pocket, and the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/maryland\/bal-a-brief-look-at-how-the-maryland-law-enforcement-officers-bill-of-rights-was-passed-20160223-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights<\/a> all but entitles police to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwlr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/87-Geo.-Wash.-L.-Rev.-646.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lie about why they shot<\/a> and killed private citizens. The county police\u2019s muddled and contradictory public statements on the Lemp shooting last month further dampened any expectation that police will come clean.<\/p>\n<p>The search warrant affidavit may provide additional information on allegations against Lemp.\u00a0 Lemp, a software wiz, was volunteering to set up free websites for gun rights groups.\u00a0 Did Lemp\u2019s gun rights activism play a role in the SWAT team\u2019s decision to rely on a violent pre-dawn raid? Are local police or federal agents planning to target other gun rights activists?<\/p>\n<p>At least one SWAT team member wore a camcom recorder during the raid but the police have refused to disclose the video of their attack.\u00a0 Last month, after a police killing in Newburgh, New York, sparked a riot, the local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/police-killing-man-they-say-was-armed-sparks-riot-upstate-n1171141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police department released within 24 hours<\/a> outtakes from their camcom to prove that the man police killed drew a pistol on them.\u00a0 If Montgomery County police have not destroyed the SWAT video, what will it show\u2014 Duncan Lemp sleeping with an arm tossed over his pregnant girlfriend by his side? And will the video honestly record how the SWAT team members harangued and handcuffed his injured girlfriend and family members as Duncan lay bleeding to death? Or will that segment be lost to a technical glitch?<\/p>\n<p>America is awaiting an answer from the Montgomery County government. Duncan Lemp\u2019s last tweet declared<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YungQuant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">, \u201cThe constitution is dead.\u201d <\/a>\u00a0Nothing that has happened since his killing has proven him wrong.<\/p>\n<p><i>James Bovard is the author of\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LsDHUb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lost Rights<\/a><i>,\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2uSsrq2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attention Deficit Democracy<\/a><i>, and\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2mN0dbO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Public Policy Hooligan<\/a><i>. He is also a\u00a0<\/i>USA Today<i>\u00a0columnist. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>@JimBovard<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A merican Conservative, April 23, 2020 Duncan Lemp\u2019s Parents Threatened With Jail For Protesting His Killing While mum on why a SWAT team shot the software developer while he lay sleeping, a Maryland prosecutor suggests COVID order trump&#8217;s Bill of Rights. 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