{"id":18955,"date":"2020-07-03T17:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T21:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=18955"},"modified":"2020-07-03T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T21:27:48","slug":"white-couple-charged-with-assault-after-viral-video-shows-pregnant-woman-legally-defending-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=18955","title":{"rendered":"White Couple Charged After Legally Defending Themselves With Drawn Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BREAKING: White Couple Charged with Assault After Viral Video Shows Pregnant Woman Defending Herself with Firearm in Confrontation with Black Woman<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2384-600x381-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18958\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2384-600x381-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2384-600x381-1-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Cristina Laila<br \/>\nGateway Pundit<\/p>\n<p>A white Oakland County, Michigan couple were charged with felony assault on Thursday after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/07\/pregnant-white-woman-falsely-accused-racism-defends-firearm-assaulted-threatened-black-woman-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video of a pregnant woman defending herself<\/a>\u00a0from a black woman with a firearm went viral.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper charged Jillian Wuestenberg , 32, and Eric Wuestenberg, 42, each with one count of felonious assault, a four-year felony, the Detroit News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/oakland-county\/2020\/07\/02\/woman-pulls-gun-orion-township-michigan\/5365854002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Top-ad\" class=\"sponsor Top\">\n<p class=\"ad-notice flipboard-remove\">Advertisement &#8211; story continues below<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper charged Jillian Wuestenberg, 32, and Eric Wuestenberg, 42, each with one count of felonious assault, a four-year felony. The Independence Township couple each possessed one loaded firearm and CPL licenses, Sheriff Mike Bouchard said.<\/p>\n<p>The couple was arraigned Thursday at 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Both were given a $50,000 personal bond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the bond conditions, they must turn over all firearms, not engage in any assaultive behavior, and may not leave the state,\u201d sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"IC1-ad\" class=\"sponsor IC1\">\n<p class=\"ad-notice flipboard-remove\">Advertisement &#8211; story continues below<\/p>\n<div id=\"IC1\" class=\"fixed-size\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The incident stemmed from a bump and lack of apology, according to Bouchard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s have a little more tolerance for each other and not being so quick to react,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cIf someone is doing something improper or unfair, I tell my family and friends to look away. This is not the moment to plant your flag.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A white couple leaving a Chipotle restaurant this week were falsely accused of racism by a black woman and her 15-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The black woman accused a pregnant white woman of bumping into her daughter near the entrance of the restaurant and demanded an apology.<\/p>\n<p>The white woman tried to deescalate the confrontation by peacefully walking away and got into her car as the black woman called her a \u201cdumbass bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The black woman then turned her ire toward white woman\u2019s husband and threatened him: \u201cAnd if you say something I\u2019ll beat your white ass too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the white couple backed up their vehicle to leave the parking lot, the black woman rushed behind the SUV to block them from leaving and accused them of \u2018trying to hit her.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The black woman pounded on the vehicle and threatened to beat them.<\/p>\n<p>This is when the confrontation escalated.<\/p>\n<p>The white woman got out of the car and pulled out her firearm after being assaulted and threatened, \u201cGet the f*ck away!\u201d she screamed. \u201cBack the f*ck up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH (language warning):<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"FULL Lake Orion Confrontation, White Woman Falsely Accused Of Racism\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iZhdMcrBuDU?feature=oembed\" name=\"fitvid0\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iZhdMcrBuDU?feature=oembed\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Eric Wuestenberg was fired from his job at Oakland University following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen the video, and we deem his behavior unacceptable.\u201d the university said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/07\/breaking-white-couple-charged-assault-viral-video-shows-pregnant-woman-defending-firearm-confrontation-black-woman\/\">https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/07\/breaking-white-couple-charged-assault-viral-video-shows-pregnant-woman-defending-firearm-confrontation-black-woman\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING: White Couple Charged with Assault After Viral Video Shows Pregnant Woman Defending Herself with Firearm in Confrontation with Black Woman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}