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Reddit navy seal war crime1/30/2024 SEAL sniper Dalton Tolbert testified that he does not remember who started a group chat called "The Sewing Circle," but the purpose of it was to connect with others who were disturbed by what they saw while deployed with Gallagher, and decide how to handle it. "This is case is not about murder, it's about mutiny," Parlatore said, telling jurors that the SEALs who testified against Gallagher lied because they didn't like his demanding leadership. He said much of what was communicated in texts was just bravado. He said that there was no body, no forensics, no science and no case against Gallagher. But one of them, Special Operator Corey Scott, who is also a medic, said he was the person who killed the boy when he plugged his breathing tube with his thumb in an act of mercy. Two of them said they witnessed Gallagher, a 19-year-veteran, stab the teen. Seven SEALs have testified during the trial over the past two weeks that Gallagher abruptly stabbed the teen prisoner on May 3, 2017, just after he and other medics treated the boy. The jury began deliberations Monday in the court-martial at Naval Base San Diego. The jury of five Marines and two sailors - one of whom is a SEAL - had to decide if the boy was stabbed to death, or died from wounds sustained during an airstrike with Gallagher being falsely accused by disgruntled subordinates. Parlatore called the case "an almost two-year nightmare" and said it was "a good day." Andrea Gallagher said, "we're finally vindicated after being terrorized by the government that my husband fought for for two decades in the war on terror." "We have a sentencing to do, but the maximum sentence on what they’re about to sentence him on is much less than the time that they’ve already had him in the brig," defense attorney Tim Parlatore said after Tuesday's verdict.
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