>Man charged with killing 36 partygoers in fire that broke out at their illegally-converted Ghost Ship warehouse is found NOT GUILTY, while a second man faces a hung jury, after a judge threw out their plea deal because their sentences were 'too lenient' >Max Harris was cleared, the jury was hung on charges against Derick Almena >Both had been charged with involuntary manslaughter after the 2016 blaze >Under a plea deal, Almena and Harris were set to be sentenced to nine and six years in prison >But a judge threw out their guilty pleas after many of the victims' families objected to the sentences >The fresh verdicts for Almena, 49, and Harris, 29, were announced Thursday >The fire broke out during a party at the warehouse called the Ghost Ship
Haha this was the place that had furniture and carpets stacked every where like a death trap.
Blake Reyes
So one of them walks free for sure because found not guilty, and the other will be found not guilty later on?. HAHA.
Aiden Powell
I wish more Antifa rat dens would burn down like that
Landon Richardson
safety squad veterans report in
Samuel Collins
>right wing safety squads are over it was a good time, now this board is just faggots and normies
Andrew Thompson
You lose when you don't point out this SITE is full of faggots and normies.
Christian Kelly
I don't care, but just based on that guy's mugshot they should have just tossed him off a cliff. Face tats are gay and his shit looks like it was drawn on in sharpie by a 5 year old.
Matthew Diaz
So I just kind of zipped through the story. Was this some kind of hippy artist flop house?
People in the "Ghost Ship" trapped in fire due to blocked exits
People in diving ship trapped in fire due to blocked exits
Gabriel Nguyen
Jow Forums is the biggest entry point for them though.
Parker Evans
Yes. Sketchy owner leases to sketchy bros who sublet for money food sex drugs skills etc, and uses stacked wooden pallets as steps to firetrap second floor.
Grayson Peterson
>install Ta'Queesha DeRoach Jackson as fire chief >everything burns down >this was because of white people
> Almena was the Ghost Ship’s master lease-holder, having co-signed the document in November 2013 to rent the building owned by the Ng family. They agreed the space would be used by an artists collective to create artwork and hold community workshops and classes. But Almena immediately and illegally turned the former dairy storage warehouse into a residence, inviting people to live there in a community setting, according to prosecutors. Harris, who moved into the building sometime in late 2014, served as a “creative director” or second-in-command to Almena, they allege, adding that he helped organize events there and collect rent. Prosecutors alleged the two men created a death trap by filling the warehouse from floor to ceiling with artwork, pianos and even RVs. Those items quickly ignited, and the flames caused heavy smoke. No fire sprinklers had been installed or lighted exit signs put up, and partygoers who tried to flee by descending the narrow, unstable makeshift front stairs from the second floor couldn’t move fast enough to escape. Prosecutors contended the defendants committed nine violations of Oakland’s fire code, including not obtaining permits for assembly, storing vehicles and failing to provide fire sprinklers or fire alarms. Police showed up on multiple occasions in calls to the warehouse, and video from their body camera footage showed Almena telling them no one lived inside.
Then what the fuck do you expect? Slumlord rented it out, never fixed it up, people died because of lackluster safety.
shitty thing happens to shitty people in a shitty facility that is obviously a deathtrap in TYOOL in - ahem - a really shitty city and ... why do I or any other American give a fuck? Don't serve a day, they feel bad about what they did, that's the Oakland way.
Xavier Garcia
phoneposting issues aside, these were sqautlords, not slumlords
Grayson Nelson
Hope more faggot druggie Californians die in fires.
Hudson Wright
>safety squad veterans report in Architectural Engineer here. It's literally my job. Fuck niggers, kikes jannies, and Californians.
Xavier Young
Good times. I almost reported the Flaming Lips art gallery for code violations but during my research I learned they had already been given a citation and brought their building up to code. And those house clubs in Austin... those did get shut down.
>caltrops scattered on the ground lole, anyone got the screencap of them coming up with that idea?
Benjamin Harris
I swear this was settled back in 2016 to 2017, why is it back?
Grayson Gray
I also remember the Janny purges. Those cucks kept shutting down our threads for doxxing... when we were just filing code violation reports with municipalities. It had them quaking in their boots
Court cases take time. The Zimmerman trial took about 18 months from incident to acquittal. This took about 33 months and a lot more people died, a lot more physical evidence and a lot less political pressure.
Based. The Justice system worked. Retarded family members objecting a reasonable prosecution deal. I don't fault the Judge in rejecting the deal, as he followed through with the wishes of the victims family members. He had warned them that there was a chance they would be acquitted and yet they still wanted stiffer charges.
Daniel Garcia
The staircase was a huge pile of pallets, and they burned like fuck so no-one could get out. Every person in there was a degenerate who deserved hell fire anyway, zero loss apart from the building, which I hope was insured.
Bentley Watson
(((Max Harris)))
Caleb Mitchell
Fuck out of here There is nothing "death trap" about this place. They have furniture and decorations and other belongings. It's fine, or was fine, and was very fucking cool. There's tons of places in the country that are similar to this, homes, museums, art shows and galleries, etc. So what the hell really happened? Fire didn't just spontaneously ignite. And people can't go down stairs anymore just because there's a small fire across the room? (I'm sure they would have noticed the fire before it engulfed the whole building) "couldn't move fast enough to escape" the fucking hell?
Oh how coincidental. establishment shills must be thrilled. Kill "lefties ", burn down their sweet place and get this chief gone.
Asher Hernandez
Doxxing is wrong :)
Hunter Martin
Plus the Mexican who shot some woman in San Francisco.
Serves the victim's families right for being greedy assholes who probably bribed the judge. 6 and 9 years for manslaughter is incredibly harsh, especially for a plea deal.
Tyler Morgan
i read an article on this like a year ago.
one dude was basically a cult leader and the other dude was his little bitch boy.
the bitch boy was lost in the world, but a good soul. the cult leader was a power seeking dictator.
in trial the bitch boy was apologetic and accepted his fate although he wished people could understand he wasnt responsible. the cult leader was antagonistic and sarcastic to the families.
so the victims families rejected the sentence because they wanted the cult leader to do more time and the bitch boy to get off.
looks like that is what happened.
Hudson Rogers
THIRTY SIX people DIED jackass. So apparently the fire was pretty damn quick.
Daniel Cooper
Guess it's really haunted now.
Wyatt Garcia
Apparently nothing. Need explanations not faggots like you trying to put a lid on it.
Great example. Cali is so chalked full if spics, nogs and whack jobs now, you are bound to get one or two people on a jury who will let the worst criminals go for inane "liberal" reasons.
Democrats are literally ruining the justice system with their clown world insanity.
I remember the night that fire broke out. Have you guys seen pictures of the Ghost Ship while it was still intact? Seeing all the spiritually incoherent iconography littering the place go up in flames made it feel like more than just shadenfreude laughing at retards die. You could feel some eerie sense of karma coming to claim something from those wastrels. 2spooky4me
Only you can prevent commie squathouse fires famalamadingdong
I keep seeing 44 anons. Wtf is happening guys? Jews? Niggers?
Ryan Cooper
Kek, this is why everyone involved in the criminal legal process tries to railroad people into plea deals. Juries are russian roulette with 3 bullets Eh, I guess. Justice isn't only for the victims though, protect everyone else, deterrent, etc.
Colton Morgan
Check my 22. I know
Jace Green
they were having a show at the time. a show is a concert
I remember that. I was working in SF at the time and dating a girl over in Oakland. A woman where I was working knew a couple of the people who got flame grilled.
Shit sucked, but everyone was talking about how Oakland is the most corrupt and incompetent city in the bay and nothing will come of it.
I seem to remember hearing that the fire department inspectors were making bank but had never actually conducted any inspections.
Some very pretty areas around the bay, but I would definitely pop open a bottle of champagne if someone nuked it all.
Ian Bennett
The right wing safety squads were a bright moment in Jow Forums history
Ian Garcia
Based
Jackson Jackson
Because the left was in a full blown panic
Evan Thompson
>was very fucking cool. Inner city lefties need to be lynched
What's the fucking issue? Even the parents realized their kids were degenerates and not the responsibility of these other degenerates. Bust them for all the illegal shit but fuck anything associated with death. Enter at ye own risk, nigger.
Elijah Young
There is liability to consider. If you are knowingly violating fire code or building code, injury/death is your fault and ain't really gonna be covered by insurance.
Sebastian Phillips
They were just renters. If anyone should hang it should be their Chinese Slumlord land lords that never kept the place up to code and let them do all kinds of illegal shit.
Ian Morris
Was Almena's first name Markula?
Michael Hughes
Even the parents called no foul. Insurance has nothing to do with it.
Oh yeah, you could see it either as the summoning they worked on come to claim them, or a cleansing.
Caleb Hill
ITT >plebs try to slow natural selection >get sad when nothing happens these really are confusing times (digits) this, why does anyone care about this anymore
Aaron King
i was paying attention when it happened, seemed like a ritual to me, also the case just getting thrown out is suspicious, but need more than that for it to matter at all
Adrian Young
Wasn't that fire that was an obvious staged hoax, with total use of crisis actors to play the role of survivors?? It was just an excuse to parade heavily tattooed freaks in front of the TV cameras.
now, what would REALLY be something is if someone could connect this to the recent diving boat fire in Santa Cruz, in which 34 people died, also trapped in flames >the boat was called Conception
Gabriel Perez
>And people can't go down stairs anymore just because there's a small fire across the room? Oh boy, you have no idea. Next time you hear a fire alarm, take your time.....
Jace Ward
The left is a suicide cult
Isaac Diaz
Patchouli?
Ayden Ross
So much cope. You have no idea how degenerate these places are. It was a drug den.
Easton Lopez
You're not wrong. There are no laws in California.
Caleb Bell
Imagine being trapped in there and you can't get out. Death by smoke and flame.
Christian Hughes
Family members shouldn't choose the punishment of a criminal.
Lincoln Taylor
The lessons you fuckers taught me about code violations and how to make and escalate reports was invaluable when I discovered the crooked as fuck contractors blocked off two stairwells to squeeze in more people at my grandma's appartment in the senior living facility she was at.
Matthew Robinson
This reminds me. We may need your help in the future anons. The whole shantytown explosion in Califorinia is likely to expand. It's illegal for the police to use vagrancy laws. We may have need for volunteer code violation spotters in the future.
