Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is sentenced to a reduction in rank and partial pay
Gallagher had been acquitted Tuesday of nearly all charges, including premeditated murder, in the death of a 12-year-old ISIS fighter in Iraq. But a jury of seven soldiers found him guilty of posing for a photo with the fighter. Prosecutors say Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher killed a prisoner and took pictures with the corpse.
"This has put a black eye on the two communities I love: The United States Marine Corps and the Navy," he said."Most of all, it has put my family through hell the last two years."A courtroom sketch shows Special Operations Chief Eddie Gallagher addressing the jury on Wednesday.Navy prosecutors said that Gallagher took the photo after fatally stabbing the detainee while he was being treated by US medics in 2017 in Mosul, Iraq.
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