USA: Ex-mayor who needed to ‘defund the police’ arrested for baby intercourse abuse

Robert Emmanuel Jacob, the previous Democrat mayor of Sebastopol, California, was arrested over a number of counts of kid intercourse crimes final Saturday. Jacob is a progressive Democrat who helps the Black Lives Matter (BLM) motion and satirically advocates for defunding the police.
The Sebastopol Police have charged 44-year previous Robert Emmanuel Jacob on 11 totally different counts of sexual assault and associated intercourse crimes in opposition to a minor aged 14 or 15. These heinous prices embody transportation of a kid for lewd and lascivious acts, arranging a gathering for sexual functions with an individual believed to be underage, sexual penetration of a kid below 16-years-old and dangerous materials despatched with the intent to seduce a minor.
According to native police, the kid intercourse abuse from Jacob might have begun from December 2019 and continued by way of March 2021. Jacob was within the Sebastopol City Council from 2012 to 2016 and was appointed Mayor of Sebastopol in 2013. The small metropolis is positioned nearly 89 KM north of San Francisco.
Jacob is overtly homosexual and married in keeping with his Facebook profile. He was featured in a glowing profile executed by The New York Times in 2014. According to NYT, “Mr. Jacob far outraised and outspent his rivals by running the most expensive campaign in Sebastopol’s history.”
Jacob had vocally supported, hailed BLM rioters
Jacob was a constant critic of former U.S. President Donald Trump, particularly through the BLM riots of 2020. On Facebook, Jacob thanked the BLM “rioters” explicitly, crediting the actions of the BLM rioters for “creating change”.
“Everyone wants to make the rioters the enemy. They are our warriors. Think of them as the infantry. They’re on the front lines, getting arrested, getting pepper sprayed, getting beaten. These rioters are, our rioters. People should be talking about them as hero’s. This is a war. A civil rights war. Violence is what it takes to win wars.” wrote Jacob on Facebook.
Jacob’s Facebook publish Also needed to ‘defund the police’
In one other Facebook publish, Jacob advocated for “defunding the police”. “Defunding is about re-funding,” he wrote on Facebook. “Defund the police to re-fund the resources we’ve been slashing for generations.” Jacob additionally praised the Minneapolis metropolis council’s dedication to dismantle its police division, which resulted in an upward spike of violent crime in Minneapolis, and the hiring of extra law enforcement officials.
Sebastopol Police Chief Kevin Kilgore advised native outlet SFGate that one sufferer, who stays unidentified as a result of particular person’s age, has determined to return ahead. However, the investigation continues to be ongoing.
It’s traumatic for our neighborhood, it’s traumatic for the survivor of the sexual assault, it’s traumatic for everybody and it weighs a toll on our neighborhood,” Kilgore added.