archive.is is having stability issues at the moment so I updated the link
archive.is link - https://archive.is/gHCl7
Original source link - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-appointed-judge-gives-break-jan-6-rioter-sentencing-rcna93170
WHEN (not if) these right wing fucks try to over throw the government again, we will only have ourselves to blame for it.
These traitors should have been given the harshest penalties possible - put them up as an example to deter others. Instead, example after example, these POS are given slaps on the wrist. We are essentially encouraging others to try again because the general public has forgotten about this event, the media never took this as seriously as they should have, and various government agencies not escalating the punishments being levied.
They’ll all wear their prison sentences as badges in 5 years. You’re looking at future senate candidates.
It would have been a massive difference if those fucks were getting 10 or 20 or more sentences.
Longer sentences don’t deter crimes. What deters crimes is certainty of being caught. We need to get them ALL, even if it’s for a little bit.
File this under examples of why there are no good apples.
I already know the answer, but how does this not completely disqualify him from being a cop?
And why would other cops want to work with a guy who was part of a group that attacked cops?
There is an in-group that the law protects, but does not bind. There is an out-group that the law binds, but does not protect.
He was convinced and his leniency is due to lack of direct involvement and being young. His sentence is house arrest.
All of this is in the article.
a “lack of direct involvement” would be something like showing up to the Capitol to protest, happening to be right in the gray area between the peaceful protestors and the violent ones, and getting rounded up by the capitol police who mistook you for one of the violent ones.
Stealing a riot shield and macing people is the textbook definition of direct involvement.
He maced his own people, so as far as I’m concerned he’s incompetent enough to be halfway to an ally.
A stupid criminal is still a criminal.
Protester. FTFY you fucking commie.
See this is the type of crap we don’t need here. Grow up and be civil instead of trying to start things with others.
You’re allowed your opinion and everyone else theirs. There is 0 need to the name calling though.
Legally that kid was an adult at the time he went to the capital. Also in that article he admits that his group went through firearms and hand to hand training before going to the capital.
I would likely agree with you if not for that fact that he admitted to, along with engaging in the rioting and stealing government property.
Once he actively engaged in the disruption, he stopped just being a protestor and became a rioter and thief/looter.