Ivanhoe Posted May 8, 2023 Posted May 8, 2023 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/prosecutors-win-light-sentence-for-man-who-set-deadly-fire-during-floyd-riots Quote A man who set a deadly fire in a Minneapolis pawn shop during the 2020 George Floyd riots was spared a murder charge and sentenced to just 10 years after federal prosecutors invoked Martin Luther King Jr. and asked the judge to show leniency. Montez Terriel Lee, 26, pleaded guilty to a single count of arson and was sentenced earlier this month to 10 years in federal prison — much less than the 16 1/2 to 20-year punishment outlined in the sentencing guidelines. Court documents show that Lee admitted he burned down the Max It Pawn Shop on May 28, 2020, the same night rioters set the Minneapolis Third Precinct building on fire following Floyd's death at the hands of since-convicted police officer Derek Chauvin. Two months after the fire, the charred remains of 30-year-old Oscar Lee Stewart were found in the rubble. Although Stewart's death was attributed to the fire in the prosecutor's sentencing memo, he was not charged with it.
BansheeOne Posted May 8, 2023 Posted May 8, 2023 Hm, that's another conviction I missed; possibly because the news is from the exact date I compiled the sweeping comparison between sentences for both groups of rioters, though I have since run a couple more searches. But since my sources for BLM convictions have been mostly sympathetic articles complaining that they got it much harder than the Capitol rioters, one might suspect the case of someone getting off comparatively lightly for lethal arson won't feature prominently - even though with ten years, he does top the BLM ranking so far, and my earlier remark that the 14 for attacking police officers at the Capitol is the first clearly exceeding that actually turns out to be correct.
Ivanhoe Posted May 8, 2023 Posted May 8, 2023 Keep in mind that there have been few arrests for BLM/Antifa rioters who committed serious violent felonies. TMK no one has ever been arrested for laser-blinding the security guards at the federal courthouse in Portland. And TMK there is no serious effort at finding them, as opposed to the WWII-level manhunt for grandmas who took selfies inside the Capitol.
NickM Posted May 8, 2023 Posted May 8, 2023 (edited) On 5/8/2023 at 4:55 AM, Ivanhoe said: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/prosecutors-win-light-sentence-for-man-who-set-deadly-fire-during-floyd-riots At the time, there was an effort to report the deaths that took place during the "mostly peaceful" riots as the work of eeevul(tm)white racists, except they were reported as the dead being hung from trees, rather than charred in rubble Edited May 9, 2023 by NickM
BansheeOne Posted May 25, 2023 Posted May 25, 2023 Quote Rioter pictured with foot on desk in speaker’s offices gets 4½ years Richard ‘Bigo’ Barnett gained notoriety for the photo. He also carried a 950,000-volt stun gun and menaced police, prosecutors said. By Tom Jackman Updated May 24, 2023 at 7:15 p.m. EDT|Published May 24, 2023 at 4:50 p.m. EDT The Jan. 6 rioter who was photographed with his foot propped on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s offices and then tried to make money with the image was sentenced to 4½ years in prison Wednesday. The photograph of Richard “Bigo” Barnett in the California Democrat’s suite of offices in 2021 became one of the defining images of the Capitol riot. Soon after his arrest, Barnett offered autographed photos of the scene for $100, prosecutors said. And when FBI agents came to interview him, he again put his feet on a table, commenting, “Does this look familiar?” Barnett was defiant this year throughout his trial, during which he lied about the circumstances of the photo and many of his actions in the Capitol. In social media posts as recently as last week, he criticized federal prosecutors as “demonically possessed cretans [sic]” and called police who were at the Capitol that day thugs. A jury in federal court convicted Barnett in January of four felonies, including obstruction of an official proceeding, and four misdemeanors. Barnett carried a walking stick with a 950,000-volt stun device into the Capitol along with a 10-pound metal flagpole and menaced police with them, prosecutors said, but he did not assault any officers. Prosecutors requested a sentence of more than seven years in prison for Barnett. But the federal judges in D.C. have shown little interest in prosecutors’ recommendations, going below them nearly 80 percent of the time in Jan. 6 prosecutions, a Washington Post analysis shows. U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper, who has gone below the government recommendation in more than 82 percent of his Jan. 6 sentencings, did so again Wednesday, ruling that a sentencing enhancement for threatening to injure a police officer, which added 11 to 14 months to Barnett’s possible term, was too drastic. Cooper went below the voluntary sentencing guideline range of 71 to 87 months, with prosecutors seeking 87 months, and imposed 54 months with three years of supervision upon release. The average sentence for an obstruction of an official proceeding charge for Jan. 6 defendants has been about 42 months, Post data shows. Barnett also was allowed to leave the courtroom and turn himself in at his convenience. Unlike the judges in most criminal sentencings in the United States, the federal judges in D.C. largely have allowed Jan. 6 defendants to arrange for their own surrender at a later date after sentencing, unless they’re already in custody. In most criminal courts, defendants sentenced to prison time are taken into custody right away. Barnett also requested to be assigned to a prison in South Dakota with classes in training dogs, and though Cooper said the choice of a prison was not like selecting a hotel, he agreed to make the recommendation. [...] At his sentencing, Barnett thanked Cooper for releasing him after he spent three months in jail in 2021. “They say I’m not remorseful,” Barnett told the judge. “Listen to what they want me to be remorseful for. They say I’m a terrorist. … They want me to be remorseful for things I did not do.” He said he would appeal his conviction. “I still think I have a chance to prove I’m innocent,” Barnett said. Cooper took issue with much of Barnett’s trial testimony, particularly his claim that he was forced into the Capitol by the mob. “You were an active participant,” the judge said, “not a bystander caught up in this.” He also rejected Barnett’s claims that he lost his phone when it fell off his car and that his stun device wasn’t working on Jan. 6. “I think you know as well as I do that none of those things happened,” Cooper said. He said Barnett’s testimony showed “disrespect for the legal system, which is an affront to me and the citizens who sat here for two weeks as jurors. … You have become one of the faces of January 6th, and I think you kind of enjoy that notoriety. You’re ‘Bigo.’ You even tried to profit from your involvement. … For all the people who follow ‘Bigo,’ they need to know they cannot act as they did on January 6th without serious repercussions.” Barnett declined to comment outside the courthouse after the sentencing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/05/24/barnett-sentenced-jan6/
BansheeOne Posted May 25, 2023 Posted May 25, 2023 Well, and this one certainly blows the reference frame. Quote US: 18-year sentence for Capitol Riots 'Oath Keepers' head 40 minutes ago The founder of the far-right militia was found guilty of seditious conspiracy late last year. The sentence is the most draconian to date in connection with the US congress attack in January 2021. A US federal judge slammed on Thursday the founder of the far-right militant Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes with an 18-year prison sentence, after a court found him guilty in November 2022 of "seditious conspiracy" for his role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol Riots. The 57-year-old Rhodes defiantly faced the judge, insisting he was a "political prisoner." The sentence is believed to be the highest to date over involvement in the Capitol Riots. The violent attack on the US Congress came two months after the November 2020 election, amid confusion over whether outgoing President Donald Trump planned to acknowledge his election defeat and the impending transition of power. What happened during the hearing? Prosecutors had urged the federal judge to sentence Rhodes to 25 years in prison. They argued the he remained a threat to US democracy. US District Judge Amit Mehta agreed during Thursday's hearing with prosecutors to apply "terrorism" penalties, arguing that Rhodes' Oath Keepers had sought to influence the government through "intimidation or coercion," the Associated Press reported. In previous January 6 sentencings, judges had refused the Justice Department's request for the "terrorism enhancement," which can mean a longer prison term for those on trial. In Rhodes' case, meanwhile, Judge Mehta said it fits. "You present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country," the French AFP news agency quoted Mehta as telling Rhodes. "You are smart, charismatic and compelling and that is frankly what makes you dangerous." Meanwhile Rhodes' defense lawyer, Phillip Linder, denied his defendant gave any orders for the group's members to enter the Capitol on January 6, 2021. "My only crime is opposing those destroying our country," Rhodes said. What is the 'seditious conspiracy' charge? Rhodes was found guilty of "seditious conspiracy" last November along with one lieutenant, Kelly Meggs. They were the first people in nearly three decades in the US to be tried and found guilty of the Civil War-era charge. Over the two month-long trial, the US Department of Justice argued the Oath Keepers "concocted a plan for an armed rebellion" and those at trial were involved in "plotting to oppose by force the government of the United States." [...] https://www.dw.com/en/us-18-year-sentence-for-capitol-riots-oath-keepers-head/a-65737494
NickM Posted May 25, 2023 Posted May 25, 2023 51 minutes ago, BansheeOne said: Well, and this one certainly blows the reference frame. https://www.dw.com/en/us-18-year-sentence-for-capitol-riots-oath-keepers-head/a-65737494 Oh. Now the oath keepers are a "far out militia"??
Ivanhoe Posted June 9, 2023 Posted June 9, 2023 Behind a paywall; https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-dozens-of-capitol-police-riot-helmets-were-confiscated-just-before-jan-6-former-lieutenant-says_5320865.html Quote Days before violence broke out at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a U.S. Capitol Police captain ordered the confiscation of dozens of riot helmets from officers without the knowledge of Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, a former USCP lieutenant told The Epoch Times. Former Capitol Police Lt. Tarik K. Johnson said he was ordered to collect “20 to 30” helmets by his immediate supervisor, Capt. Ben Smith. Johnson said there was no explanation for the order, but he assumed the equipment was past its expiration date. The collection was done within the two weeks prior to Jan. 6, most likely the week of Dec. 28, 2020, to Jan. 1, 2021, Johnson said. “Now, did they tell me that the helmets were expired? Nobody told me that they were,” Johnson said in an interview with The Epoch Times. “But if they were perfectly good helmets, why would you take them?” Yet another data point that makes things look orchestrated.
Murph Posted June 9, 2023 Posted June 9, 2023 It was an orchestrated event by the DOJ/FBI/Democrats. Notice Ray Epps is protected by them. Also this country is done for.
rmgill Posted July 13, 2023 Posted July 13, 2023 (edited) Apparently, Ray Epps is to be charged. https://www.dailywire.com/news/ray-epps-to-be-criminally-charged-for-events-on-january-6-his-attorney-says Edited July 13, 2023 by rmgill
BansheeOne Posted July 13, 2023 Posted July 13, 2023 I was just going to say, a J6 protester filing his own suit is a new one. Quote Ray Epps sues Fox News for Capitol riot conspiracy claim By Mike Wendling BBC News 7 hours ago A former US Marine who became the focus of right-wing conspiracies surrounding the Capitol riot is suing Fox News for defamation. The legal action accuses Fox of telling a "fantastical story" suggesting Ray Epps was a federal agent to make him a "scapegoat" for the raid on Congress. Mr Epps was filmed encouraging people to enter the Capitol complex in January 2021, but he was not charged. The lawsuit, filed in court in Delaware on Wednesday, does not specify damages. It also names Tucker Carlson, who was taken off air by the network earlier this year. Mr Epps' lawyer says his client and his wife had to close their wedding venue business in Arizona and move to a small motorhome in Utah because of threats and harassment they endured as a result of the conspiracy theories. Mr Epps was in Washington the night before the riot with Trump supporters near the Capitol and on the day of the riot itself. He was seen in a video urging people to enter the building. Members of the crowd chanted back "Fed! Fed!" - accusing him of being a law enforcement official. Mr Epps has said in interviews that he has no ties to law enforcement agencies and that he did not enter the Capitol during the riot. [...] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66169918
JWB Posted August 23, 2023 Posted August 23, 2023 In related news: Conservative Journalist Gets $300,000 After 'Antifa' Assault at Protest (msn.com)
BansheeOne Posted August 23, 2023 Posted August 23, 2023 2 hours ago, JWB said: In related news: Conservative Journalist Gets $300,000 After 'Antifa' Assault at Protest (msn.com) Quote The writer alleged that three individuals—Katherine Belyea, Madison Allen, and Joseph Evans—attacked him at the event. Evans, who now goes by the legal name Sammich Overkill Schott-Deputy, 😄
sunday Posted August 23, 2023 Posted August 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Stargrunt6 said: Lotsa J6 protestors are in jail sans trial. Some suicided, some reported Gulag-like imprisonment conditions.
BansheeOne Posted September 2, 2023 Posted September 2, 2023 They're on a roll! Quote Two ex-Proud Boys leaders get among the longest sentences in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Updated 6:43 PM MESZ, September 1, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group were sentenced to more than a decade each in prison Thursday for spearheading an attack on the U.S. Capitol to try to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election. The 17-year prison term for organizer Joseph Biggs and 15-year sentence for leader Zachary Rehl were the second and third longest sentences handed down yet in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. They were the first Proud Boys to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who will separately preside over similar hearings of three others who were convicted by a jury in May after a four-month trial in Washington that laid bare far-right extremists’ embrace of lies by Trump, a Republican, that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Enrique Tarrio, a Miami resident who was the Proud Boys’ national chairman and top leader, is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday. His sentencing was moved from Wednesday to next week because Kelly was sick. Tarrio wasn’t in Washington on Jan. 6. He had been arrested two days before the Capitol riot on charges that he defaced a Black Lives Matter banner during an earlier rally in the nation’s capital, and he complied with a judge’s order to leave the city after his arrest. He picked Biggs and Proud Boys chapter president Ethan Nordean to be the group’s leaders on the ground in his absence, prosecutors said. Rehl, Biggs, Tarrio and Nordean were convicted of charges including seditious conspiracy, a rarely brought Civil War-era offense. A fifth Proud Boys member, Dominic Pezzola, was acquitted of seditious conspiracy but convicted of other serious charges. Federal prosecutors had recommended a 33-year prison sentence for Biggs, who helped lead dozens of Proud Boys members and associates in marching to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Biggs and other Proud Boys joined the mob that broke through police lines and forced lawmakers to flee, disrupting the joint session of Congress for certifying the electoral victory by Biden, a Democrat. [...] https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-proud-boys-sentencing-seditious-conspiracy-5c8bf8a8e5dc6381e7387e31e554cee6 Quote Proud Boys Ethan Nordean and Dominic Pezzola jailed for US Capitol riot Published 9 hours ago By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington Two members of the far-right Proud Boys group have been jailed for leading the US Capitol riot. Dominic Pezzola, 46, who was convicted of assaulting police and obstructing an official proceeding, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ethan Nordean, 32, who led the group's march on Congress on 6 January 2021, was sentenced to 18 years for a more serious seditious conspiracy charge. [...] Nordean, of Washington state, went by the nickname "Rufio Panman" and was well-known within the Proud Boys for his frequent brawls with antifa activists in the Pacific Northwest. His sentence is one of the longest ones yet handed to Capitol riot defendants. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, was also given 18 years in prison earlier this year. The other defendant sentenced on Friday, Pezzola, a 46-year-old former US Marine, fought with officers during the riot and smashed a window with a police riot shield. A selfie video taken on the day of the riot shows Pezzola smoking what he described as a "victory cigar" in the Capitol building. While he was convicted on the assault and obstruction charges, he was acquitted of seditious conspiracy - a charge applied to defendants for plotting to overthrow the government or use force "to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States". An emotional Pezzola expressed some remorse for his actions during his sentencing hearing. His wife, daughter and mother all addressed the judge, with his mother describing him as having been a "wonderful child" that "never gave me any trouble". Pezzola's wife said that her daughters have become victims of harassment and bullying at school. But once the prison term had been handed down and the judge had left the room, Pezzola raised a fist and shouted: "Trump won!" [...] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66689547
BansheeOne Posted September 6, 2023 Posted September 6, 2023 Quote US: Ex-Proud Boys head to serve 22 years over Jan. 6 attack 10 hours ago A judge in Washington has sentenced the former national chairman of the far-right Proud Boys militia to 22 years in prison. It's the stiffest sentence yet in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress. Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys militia, was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Tuesday in Washington. Prosecutors had sought a 33-year prison term for the 39-year-old. Although the sentence fell short of this, it is still the stiffest penalty handed out so far for the 2021 attack on the US Capitol. The judge rejected arguments from one of Tarrio's lawyers that a terrorism adjustment to his sentence should not apply. Tarrio's lawyer argued his client was a "misguided patriot" who "thought he was saving this country, saving this republic." Despite agreeing that Tarrio's actions did not fall under the most traditional definitions of "terrorism," US District Judge Timothy Kelly said the adjustment should apply, as prosecutors had wanted. What was said in court Tarrio was not in Washington on January 6 but was accused and convicted of directing the assault on the Capitol by members of the Proud Boys. He appealed to the judge for leniency, insisting he was not a political zealot. "Inflicting harm or changing the results of the election was not my goal," Tarrio said. But prosecutors argued he acted as a "general rather than a soldier," and said: "The only reason Tarrio did not march alongside the others is because he was arrested on his arrival in Washington DC and placed under a court order to leave the district." Prosecutors argued that the "savvy propagandist" had done "far more harm than he could have as an individual rioter" and that "his sentence should reflect that." "We need to make sure the consequences are abundantly clear to anyone who might be unhappy with the results of 2024, 2028, 2032 or any future election for as long as this case is remembered," prosecutor Conor Mulroe had said. "This was a calculated act of terrorism." [...] https://www.dw.com/en/us-ex-proud-boys-leader-to-serve-22-years-over-jan-6-attack/a-66729925
Ivanhoe Posted September 28, 2023 Posted September 28, 2023 https://notthebee.com/article/us-attorney-who-prosecuted-the-january-6th-lectern-guy-was-arrested-for-stabbing-another-driver-in-a-road-rage-incident Quote One of the prosecutors who worked to throw Adam Johnson, the infamous January 6th "Lectern Guy," into jail was just arrested for an INSANE road rage incident. . Quote Patrick Douglas Scruggs, a US Attorney in the Tampa Bay area, allegedly got out of his car and used his pocket knife to repeatedly stab a man who hit his car. Photos show the victim holding his bloody arms out the window as if pleading for mercy. . Quote Scruggs, exited his vehicle, approached Driver 1, broke out the side window and began to stab Driver 1 multiple times with a pocket knife. Driver 2 and his wife returned to assist the initial driver in an effort to intercept the actions of Scruggs. As the pair approached, Scruggs diverted his attention and attempted to stab the man and his wife who both fled before being harmed.
sunday Posted September 28, 2023 Posted September 28, 2023 Well, the other driver was in a BMW, so Scruggs could probably been thinking about making justice for all the bad driving habits of your typical Beemer driver...
Ivanhoe Posted November 19, 2023 Posted November 19, 2023 I hope no one is surprised that the actual security cam video doesn't support the Narrative. Also raises questions about the integrity of the DOJ; how many J6 defendants had access to all of the video? If not, isn't that obstruction?
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