He Went to Jail for Defending Himself. Now Ian Cranston May Get a Second Chance: Justice Comes for a Wrongly Convicted Victim of BLM and Antifa

He Went to Jail for Defending Himself. Now Ian Cranston May Get a Second Chance:

Justice comes for a wrongly convicted victim of BLM and Antifa.

The most extraordinary thing about the confrontation that wrongly sent Ian Cranston, an unassuming young man in glasses, to prison for a decade, is that there was very little argument over the facts because they’re amply documented and were caught on video.

The prosecution admitted that Cranston was assaulted by Barry Washington Jr: a violent criminal who had been harassing his fiancée. The assault by Washington was severe enough that Cranston looks battered in his booking photo, suffered a brain injury, and had to be taken to the hospital for evaluation.

Before Ian Cranston shot Washington in self-defense, the drunken violent criminal had not only attacked him, but also his fiancée, and had punched another of Cranston’s friends in the nose.

The only reason a case that normally should never have even come to trial not only did, but led to an innocent man being locked up for ten years was due to the deadliest three letter acronym.

BLM

The shooting happened in Oregon in 2021. And BLM rioters quickly emerged. Washington’s family claimed that he was an innocent victim of white racism.

“Does anyone think that Cranston would have even noticed my son if he was not black?” Washington’s mother bafflingly demanded. Most people notice the people punching them in the face regardless of race.

An activist claimed that Washington was “targeted for being a free black man” who “didn’t conform to the racial norms of the 90% white Bend, Oregon.” The norms were embodied by a social media post by Washington stating “if your bf white you single to me. F___ timmy gon do?”

Violating those “norms” led Washington to harass Cranston’s fiancée inside and outside the bar, get into a fight with Cranson, his fiancée and his friends, until finally ‘Timmy’ did something.

Media outlets however described this as Cranston murdering Washington for “complimenting his fiancée”. But Washington wasn’t just hitting on the victim’s fiancée, but he literally hit her, slapping the phone she was using to record his harassment out of her hand.

While prosecutors emphasized that Washington Jr, a California resident, had turned out not to be armed at the time, a year earlier he had been chased by California Highway Patrol officers while driving over 100 miles an hour and throwing bullets out of his car.

When Cranston finally fired one shot at his attacker, Washington had assaulted three people, including him and his fiancée, and despite the victim showing him he was armed, was preparing to attack him again. Afterward, Cranston checked how badly he was shot and tried to put pressure on the wound to save Washington’s life. Not remotely the actions of a racist.

Radical activist prosecutor John Hummel however compared the attacker to Emmett Till.

“Our country has a disgraceful history of denigrating, prosecuting and lynching black men for talking to white women. Over the last week, literally hundreds of people called and emailed me to remind me of this history,” Hummel ranted in a press conference after the shooting “There’s a reckoning with race that needs to happen in Central Oregon, and it needs to happen now.”

Emmett Till had been a 14-year-old boy. Washington Jr was a 22-year-old criminal.

After Cranston asked Washington to stop harassing his fiancée, the attacker reportedly replied,

“F___ you, White boy.” Despite the misinformation from the media and local officials, the only racism in the confrontation was coming from Washington, not from Cranson, who was the victim of Washington’s racism.

But it was time for Central Oregon to have a ‘reckoning’ and that also meant a lynching.

Even though the evidence of what happened was crystal clear, the ideological madness of BLM infected the prosecutor, the judge and the jury, turning what should have been a simple case into a ‘reckoning’ and a ‘crucial moment’ in the twisted civil rights movement of BLM.

That momentary confrontation suddenly represented the entire history of racism in America.

Local officials issued a statement claiming that the self-defense shooting required that “we must dig deep and examine ourselves and the systems and culture”. A memorial was set up, protests were held and media outlets discussed the shooting as a sign Oregon was mired in racism.

Hummel claimed that despite the violent assault, “it was not going to get out of hand” and that the victim had committed “homicide with no justification”. Except for the assault on him, his fiancée and his friend. The prosecution insisted that the only reason Cranston had shot Washington wasn’t to defend himself, his fiancée and his friends, but out of “pride”. --->READ MORE HERE

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