A handful of protesters staged a demonstration for the media in front of the federal courthouse in Tampa late Tuesday morning, accusing the government of making bogus criminal cases against Muslim Americans and anti-war demonstrators.
Four spoke briefly about how people are railroaded into criminal acts by pushy government agents. As an example, the demonstrators used the case of Sami Osmakac, recently convicted in Tampa of several terrorism and weapons related charges. The jury did not believe his defense was that he was entrapped by the government.
Avni Osmakac said his younger brother suffers from a mental illness and was vulnerable to suggestions by agents intent on bringing criminal charges.
Sami Osmakac was not an Islamic radical like he was portrayed in court, Avni Osmakac said.
“Everything he knows about religion came from them,” Avni Osmakac said. Since 2010, 18 confidential informants and undercover agents surrounded Sami Osmakac filling his head with thoughts of killing Americans, Avni Osmakac said in front of the courthouse where his brother was convicted last month.
“He was an easy target” because of a mental illness that surfaced in 2010, the elder brother said.
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