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Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, leaving the Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose, California, on Friday.
The protesters stood in front of his parent's Sugarcreek Township, Ohio home carrying signs that read "Castrate rapists," and, "If I rape Brock will I only do 3 months?" Buzzfeed News reported.
Some protesters were armed, and menacing threats, such as "Shoot your local rapist" and "We don't forgive, we don't forget, expect us!!!" were written in chalk, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
#BrockTurner may have gotten a light sentence but the neighbors not making it easy for him to live outside of jail pic.twitter.com/k4DXAF7AY2
- coke (@wildd_child) September 3, 2016
Open carry protesters at the house of Brock Turner in Sugarcreek Township. @WCPO pic.twitter.com/QpsqOQCPC2
- Jay Warren (@JayWarrenWCPO) September 2, 2016Turner was sentenced to six months in jail in June. His September release means he left the Santa Clara County jail three months early for good behavior, as online records showed could happen from the start. Inmates in California often serve only partial sentences, based on a variety of factors including behavior.
As of Tuesday, Turner appeared as a sex offender in the The Ohio Attorney General's online registry. He will also need to check in with Ohio police every three months for as long as he lives in the county.
Turner was found guilty of three felony counts for sexually assaulting an unconscious and intoxicated woman in January 2015.