Attendees of Confederate Woodstock dismayed that actions have consequences

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Jan 8, 2021.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #501     Sep 11, 2023
  2. Atlantic

    Atlantic

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    #502     Sep 11, 2023
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    He will be foaming from the mouth in prison as well.

    Cop-beating MAGA rioter seen frothing at the mouth gets 6.5 years in prison
    https://www.rawstory.com/frothing-rioter-sentenced/

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    A federal judge has sentenced high-level January 6 defendant Joseph Padilla to six and a half years in prison, CBS News' Scott MacFarlane reported on Wednesday.

    Federal Judge John Bates handed down the sentence after calling Padilla "one of the most aggressive rioters" in the crowd, and saying that while Padilla did apologize to the police officers he attacked, he "is awfully late in the game" in showing remorse for his actions.

    Padilla, an Iraq War veteran from Cleveland, Tennessee, is accused of assaulting D.C. Metropolitan Police officers trying to hold back the crowd forcing their way into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, including hurling a pole into a crowd of officers, while threatening them and encouraging the crowd to shove them back.

    He was captured on police body camera with a pulled-down mask and scuba goggles, frothing at the mouth and screaming at police.

    "You're f*cking defending a machine that doesn't even f*cking care about you," shouted Padilla in the footage. "But if you let us in there, that machine will be gone, and we will f*cking protect you. You're being a moral coward. You are a moral coward. You know what you're doing is wrong."

    More than 1,000 people have been arrested in connection with the January 6 attack so far, with hundreds of them either being convicted or pleading guilty to various offenses, ranging from trespassing to seditious conspiracy.
     
    #503     Sep 14, 2023
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  4. gwb-trading

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    #504     Sep 14, 2023
  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Brazil gets it right. Insurrectionists who violently storm government buildings to undermine democracy should get 17 years minimum. The U.S. should follow this example.

    Brazil riots: First man tried for storming government buildings gets 17 years
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66810835

    A man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for his involvement in riots that shook Brazil's capital in January after the presidential election.

    He was one of thousands who refused to accept the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro's loss, ransacking government buildings in protest.

    Aecio Pereira, convicted of attempting a coup, is the first to be tried in connection with the attacks.

    He denied wrongdoing and said he believed he was at a peaceful protest.

    Pereira, 51, was arrested inside the Senate building, He had filmed himself at the Senate president's table during the riots, wearing a T-shirt marked with the words "Military Intervention" while he urged fellow supporters of Mr Bolsonaro to "take to the streets."

    The mob he was part of claimed the election result was rigged and invaded the presidential palace and the high court in Brasilia, smashing windows, throwing furniture into fountains and vandalizing artwork.

    Some had also been camping outside army buildings around the country calling for a military intervention.

    "The [rioters'] objective was to violently seize Brasilia and spread a criminal attack against the rule of law across the country," Justice Cristiano Zanin said on Thursday as he sentenced Mr Pereira.

    He is part of an initial group of four people that will be tried over the riots before Brazil's Supreme Court, which plans to hear 232 cases involving the most serious alleged crimes committed during the demonstrations.

    Prosecutors are also investigating more than 1,000 others over the attacks, mostly on lesser charges.

    Brazil's Supreme Court had also agreed to include Mr Bolsonaro in their riot probe, with prosecutors saying he may have incited a crime by questioning the legitimacy of October's presidential election.

    Mr Bolsonaro was in Florida during the violence after refusing to take part in handing over the presidential sash to left-wing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

    Before narrowly losing last October's elections, he had publicly accused the Supreme Federal Court of being politically against him, and claimed the voting system was prone to fraud, despite no evidence to support those claims.

    But Mr Bolsonaro denied encouraging the riots at time, saying they had gone beyond democratic protest.
     
    #505     Sep 15, 2023
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  6. Atlantic

    Atlantic

    #506     Sep 18, 2023
  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #507     Sep 20, 2023
  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #508     Sep 22, 2023
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Lock Him Up!. They should have given him more than 5 years. They need to follow Brazil's example and give 17 year sentences minimum.

    Jan. 6 rioter who attacked cops with 'javelin-style' Trump flag gets prison sentence: report
    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-flag/
     
    #509     Sep 23, 2023
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    These violent insurrectionists keep disappearing before their sentencing. They need to be locked up in jail with no bail.

    FBI arrests Proud Boys member who disappeared days before sentencing over role in Jan. 6
    The FBI has arrested a Proud Boys member who went missing before sentencing.
    https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-arres...isappeared-days-sentencing/story?id=103586376

    The FBI has arrested a member of the Proud Boys who went missing just before he was set to be sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a spokesperson for the Collier County Sheriff's Office.

    "We can confirm the arrest of Christopher Worrell," the spokesperson told ABC News in a statement Thursday evening. "The FBI arrested him and the Collier County Sheriff's Office assisted."

    Worrell, a 52-year-old from Naples, Florida, went missing in August just before he was going to be sentenced for several felonies he was convicted on over his conduct during the Jan. 6 riot.

    Worrell -- a self-identified member of right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys -- pepper sprayed police during the attack on the Capitol, according to court documents.

    A judge found Worrell guilty in May 2023 of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, and obstructing, impeding, or interfering with officers during the commission of a civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, engaging in physical violence with a deadly or dangerous weapon all felonies, and an act of physical violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings, a misdemeanor. The verdict followed a five-day bench trial.

    "Once on Capitol grounds, Worrell spewed vitriol for half an hour at the overwhelmed officers restraining the mob," according to an Aug. 13 sentencing memo filed by the Justice Department. "And when he saw an opportunity to pepper spray the police line from deep within the crowd, Worrell took it."

    On Jan. 6, Worrell, wearing a tactical vest, carried pepper gel when he marched with other Proud Boys from the Washington Monument to the Capitol, according to court records. He warned officers he passed, "don't make us go against you," according to court records.

    After the judge in his case was informed that Worrell had gone missing, the judge issued a bench warrant for his arrest.

    Worrell had been on house arrest after court records show he complained about the treatment at the Washington D.C. jail. The federal judge allowed him to await sentencing while on house arrest.

    Prosecutors had sought a 14 year prison sentence for Worrell.
     
    #510     Sep 29, 2023
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