KCK O'Reilly Store Deadly Choking Results In Five Year Jail Sentence

The conclusion of this story likely won't make anybody feel better about a not-so-long ago tragedy . . .

Some critics argue the defendant shouldn't have faced any consequences whilst advocates for the victim value human life over alleged theft of auto parts.  

Either way the incident is one of many racially & politically charged altercations that turned out horribly for everyone involved. 

Check the basics . . . 

A former O’Reilly Auto Parts store manager in Kansas City, Kansas, is now a convicted felon and will serve nearly five years in prison.

Carl Kemppainen was convicted by a jury in May for choking a man to death whom he suspected of stealing.

On Thursday, the store manager was sentenced to 57 months in prison, the standard range of punishment for his crime.

Wyandotte County Judge Michael Russell rejected the defense's request for probation.

More interestingly . . .

SOCIAL MEDIA ADVOCACY SEEMS TO HAVE BACKFIRED IN THIS CASE!!!

This passage offers a hint at the circumstances confronting the defendant . . . 

In Wyandotte County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Garett Relph's final remarks, he referenced Kemppainen's social media and vigilante justice.

He said, "There's a reason in our criminal justice system you can't take justice into your own hands. What if you're wrong?"

He mentioned Kemppainen's Facebook posts on the situation, which haven't been deleted.

In the posts, Kemppainen called Steen and Perkins "gang members." He said the district attorney was "woke" and "pressured by Black Lives Matter activists" to charge him.

Prosecutor Relph said it was Kemppainen who turned a misdemeanor theft into murder.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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