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Judge
decries
shooting
that
killed
son,
injured
husband
apnews.com
NEW
BRUNSWICK,
N.J. -
In her
first
public
comments
since a
lawyer
known
for his
misogynistic
screeds
shot and
killed
her son
and
seriously
injured
her
husband
at their
home, a
federal
judge in
New
Jersey
called
for more
privacy
and
protections
for
people
in her
field in
the face
of
mounting
cyberthreats.
In a
video
statement
released
Monday,
U.S.
District
Judge
Esther
Salas
noted
that
serving
as a
judge
involves
“making
tough
calls”
that
sometimes
leave
people
angry
and
upset.
But she
said
judges
should
not have
to “live
in fear
for our
lives”
because
personal
information,
such as
home
addresses,
can be
easily
obtained
by
anyone
seeking
to cause
them or
their
families
harm.
“There
are
companies
that
will
sell
your
personal
details
that can
be
leveraged
for
nefarious
purposes,”
Salas
said in
the
video.
In my
case,
the
monster
knew
where I
lived
and what
church
we
attended,
and had
a
complete
dossier
on me
and my
family.
At the
moment,
there is
nothing
we can
do to
stop it,
and that
is
unacceptable.”
Authorities
have
said Roy
Den
Hollander,
a men’s
rights
lawyer
whose
anti-feminist
writings
dated
back
more
than two
decades,
posed as
a FedEx
delivery
person
and
fatally
shot
20-year-old
Daniel
Anderl
and
wounded
his
63-year-old
father,
Mark
Anderl,
on July
19.
Salas,
who was
in
another
part of
the home
at the
time and
was not
injured,
referred
to Den
Hollander
as “a
madman”
in her
statement.
“Daniel
being
Daniel,
protected
his
father
and he
took the
shooter’s
first
bullet
directly
to the
chest,”
Salas
said in
the
video.
“The
monster
then
turned
his
attention
to my
husband
and
began to
shoot at
my
husband,
one shot
after
another.”
Mark
Anderl
was shot
three
times
and
remains
hospitalized.
He was
hit in
the
right
chest,
left
abdomen
and
right
forearm,
and has
undergone
several
surgeries.
Den
Hollander,
72, was
found
dead of
a
self-inflicted
gunshot
wound on
July 20,
the day
after
the
ambush.
Authorities
believe
he also
shot and
killed a
fellow
attorney
in
California
in the
days
before
the
attack
at
Salas’
home.
Den
Hollander
had a
document
with
information
about a
dozen
female
judges
from
across
the
country
— half
of whom
are
Latina,
,
including
Salas —
with him
when he
was
found
dead,
two
people
with
knowledge
of the
investigation
told the
AP. They
spoke on
condition
of
anonymity
because
they
were not
authorized
to speak
publicly
about
the
case.
Den
Hollander’s
website
contained
vitriolic
rants
against
women
and
occasionally
violent
imagery.
Among
his
targets
were his
late
mother,
his
ex-wife,
friends
from
childhood
and
“feminazi”
judges.
In
the
aftermath
of the
shootings,
some
legal
experts
have
said
it’s
time for
the U.S.
Marshals
Service,
which
primarily
provides
protection
for
judges
in and
around
courthouses,
to be
more
aggressive
in
monitoring
online
hate
speech.
The
service
said it
monitored
more
than 1
million
derogatory
social
media
posts
aimed at
people
it
protects
during
the last
fiscal
year.
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