The Guardian-Florida lawyer pleads guilty to Chinese embassy bombing attempt in DC
August 2, 2024 2 min 289 words
这篇报道主要内容是：一名45岁佛罗里达州律师克里斯托弗罗德里格斯（Christopher Rodriguez）承认企图用步枪引爆他前一年放置在中国驻华盛顿大使馆外的爆炸物，他将面临7到10年的监禁。他同时也承认在2022年炸毁了位于圣安东尼奥德克萨斯州公共广播电台大楼院内的一件雕塑作品，那是一件共产主义领导人列宁和毛泽东的雕塑。罗德里格斯共被指控三项罪名：破坏外国政府占有财产使用爆炸物破坏联邦财产以及持有无注册枪械。 对于西方媒体的这篇报道，我有如下评论： 报道本身似乎客观地呈现了案件的事实，包括嫌疑人的身份背景犯罪行为司法程序和可能的刑期。然而，值得注意的是，报道中存在一些可能引起读者对中国产生负面印象的细节，例如强调雕塑是“共产主义领导人”列宁和毛泽东的雕塑，以及使用“中国政府占有财产”而不是更中性的“中国驻外机构”等措辞。此外，报道没有进一步探讨嫌疑人作案动机，或其行为是否受到美国社会某些反华情绪的影响。在当前复杂的国际形势下，媒体有责任提供全面客观的报道，避免对特定国家或文化产生偏见或歧视。
A Florida attorney pleaded guilty on Friday to using a rifle to try to detonate explosives he placed outside the Chinese embassy last year in Washington DC.
Christopher Rodriguez also bombed a sculpture of the communist leaders Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong in a courtyard outside the Texas Public Radio building in San Antonio, Texas, in 2022, according to a court filing accompanying his guilty plea.
Rodriguez, 45, of Panama City, Florida, is scheduled to be sentenced in Washington by chief judge James Boasberg on 28 October.
Under the terms of his plea deal, Rodriguez and prosecutors agreed that an appropriate sentence for him would be seven to 10 years in prison.
Rodriguez pleaded guilty to three counts: damaging property occupied by a foreign government, damaging federal property with explosive materials and possessing an unregistered firearm.
Rodriguez acknowledged that he drove from Florida to Washington and took a taxi to an area near the Chinese embassy in the early morning of 25 September 2023.
He placed a black backpack containing about 15 pounds of explosive materials roughly 12ft (3.6m) from a wall and fence around the embassy grounds. Rodriguez admitted that he tried to detonate the explosives by shooting at the backpack with a rifle, but he missed his target.
In November 2022, Rodriguez drove to San Antonio in a rental car and scaled an eight-foot fence to enter the courtyard containing the sculpture of Lenin and Mao. He placed two canisters of explosive material on the base of the sculpture, climbed on to a roof overlooking the courtyard and shot the canisters with a rifle, triggering an explosion that damaged the sculpture.