COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT
Posner
United States – Appellant
Versus
Samuel Bradbury – Respondent
United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 16‐1532 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff‐Appellee,
v. SAMUEL L. BRADBURY, Defendant‐Appellant. ____________________
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division. No. 2:14‐cr‐00071‐PPS‐APR‐1 — Philip P. Simon, Judge. ____________________
ARGUED JANUARY 18, 2017 — DECIDED FEBRUARY 16, 2017 ____________________
Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and POSNER and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges. POSNER, Circuit Judge. On June 8, 2014, Jerad and Amanda Miller, originally of Lafayette, Indiana, shot and killed two police officers and one civilian in Las Vegas. The couple died in an ensuing shootout with police, Amanda committing su‐ icide after Jerad was shot. At approximately 11:15 p.m. on June 19, 2014, Samuel L. Bradbury, a Lafayette resident, 2 No. 16‐1532
placed the following message on his Facebook “wall,” where it was readable by his Facebook “friends,” who could more‐ over take screenshots of the message to convey to others: I can’t keep silent on this conspiracy anymore. I have to reveal some truth. My buddy and comrade Ant has been catching some flack for some of his posts about killing cops. I have to let out the truth. Jerad and Amanda Miller were losers. They were part of out [sic] group, the 765 An‐ archists, the town’s cop killing group run by none other than myself, Sam Bradbury. When we discovered that Je‐ rad and Amanda were CIs and in with the boys in blue, we sent them out to the Bundy Ranch to cause controversy elsewhere because we didn’t need them snitching on our business. I hadn’t heard from him since that event, but some of our comrades gave the command and that’s why Jerad and Amanda [M]iller killed those cops in Las Vegas. I thought Jerad was cool, but fuck him, he was a CI. Great job I must say, but not what we wanted. We, the 765 Anar‐ chists, including myself and Ant are part of a much larger plot that we’ve been forming for years to kill cops in the local area, and specifically to take out WLPD Officer Troy Green and Tippecanoe County Sheriff, Tracy Brown. Jerad and Amanda were just following 765 Anarchist group or‐ ders, but they had fallen out of favor with the group after we discovered they were working with police as confiden‐ tial informants. While we are glad that they killed some police, the 765 Anarchists are looking to make waves in the 765 area, specifically Lafayette. The top two on our hit list are Troy Green of the WLPD and Tracy Brown, Tippe‐ canoe County Sheriff. We have field agents out currently gathering information and planning the attack. We have gathered enough thermite and explosives that we intend to not only kill those two pigs and any others that get in our way, but also to cause extreme damage to the county’s var‐ No. 16‐1532 3
ious offices’ equipment, including police cars and police buildings. Before the month is over, we intend to inciner‐ ate and destroy no less than 6 police cars, as well as the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, with hits specifically tar‐ geted on Judge Les Meade and Judge Loretta Rush also. The courthouse will be blown to pieces within the month,
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