Lock Him Up! ‘Where you at, Nancy?:’ Capitol rioter who dressed ‘like Antifa,’ forced his way into Speaker’s office, opened doors to allow more revelers enter building pleads guilty https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol...w-more-revelers-enter-building-pleads-guilty/
Yes, they should throw the book at all these insurrectionists and lock them up for lengthy lessons to apply the lesson that undermining democracy is unacceptable. ''Deterrence' is critical': Judge urged to throw book at Jan. 6 rioter to stop repeat https://www.rawstory.com/maga-rioter-2669419634/ The Justice Department sought 27 months in prison for a convicted Jan. 6 rioter, according to CBS News' Scott MacFarlane. "Prosecutor tells judge 'deterrence' is critical; Bell is accused [of] being 'agitated, angry & violent' as she accosted police & media on Jan 6," wrote MacFarlane on X. "Prosecutor argues Dana Jean Bell engaged in 'prolonged, abusive and violent' behavior. Prosecutor says Bell grabbed police officer’s baton, as police tried to clear mob away after Ashli Babbitt was shot." Babbitt, who died after being shot by police while trying to force her way into an area of the Capitol where members of Congress were trying to evacuate, has become a martyr on the far-right, with former President Donald Trump himself calling the officer who defended the Capitol from her a "thug." According to prosecutors, Bell shouted “Get a real job” and “No one supports you” at Officer Jeff Smith, who died by suicide shortly after the Jan. 6 attack. The defense team tried to say her actions weren't truly violent, asking for leniency because she was "caught up in the moment" and saying there are videos, unreviewed by the court, that show her walking around "like she was in Disneyland." They also disputed the claim that Bell had been inside the Capitol for 30 minutes, saying it was just 19 minutes. Around 1,300 people have been arrested in connection with the Capitol attack that sought to stop the electoral count for President Joe Biden from being certified, with hundreds of convictions and plea deals. Most defendants were charged with misdemeanor offenses like trespassing and disorderly conduct. However, a handful faced more serious charges including assaulting police officers, and, in the case of some of the leaders of the far-right Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, seditious conspiracy. Former President Donald Trump has toyed with the idea of pardoning at least some of the rioters if he is re-elected.
The appeals of these idiots on absurd grounds keep failing. January 6 riot conviction of ‘Cowboys for Trump’ founder is upheld in precedent-setting case https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/cowboys-for-trump-january-6-capitol-riot/index.html The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, on Tuesday upheld the conviction of the Cowboys for Trump founder who entered the restricted area of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, saying rioters didn’t have to know the Secret Service was protecting then-Vice President Mike Pence inside when they breached the area. The case is among a handful that tested the foundational approach the Justice Department took to prosecute hundreds of Capitol rioters, and the decision has been long-awaited since it was argued last December by those handling cases coming through the DC federal court. It also strengthens federal protection the Secret Service can offer, by defining more clearly the law around trespassing in areas where public officials are being protected. “The basis of the Secret Service’s authority to prevent access to designated areas for the safety of its protectees … need not be in the mind of the trespasser,” DC Circuit Judge Nina Pillard wrote in the opinion Tuesday. The unsuccessful challenge to the law was brought by Couy Griffin, a New Mexico local official who organized a group called Cowboys for Trump, who jumped a stone wall outside the Capitol to board the inauguration stage. Griffin was convicted of two misdemeanors, including the trespassing charge, and was sentenced to 14 days in jail and a year of supervised release. “In [Griffin’s] view, the statute also requires proof that he knew why the Capitol grounds were so restricted when he entered or remained there —i.e. that a Secret Service protect was or would be temporarily visiting the Capitol grounds. We decline to adopt such a rule,” Pillard wrote in the 2-1 opinion. “Griffin’s approach would surely hinder the Secret Service’s capacity to handle the full range of potential threats.” It’s possible Griffin continues to fight his trespass charge with further appeals, including potentially to the US Supreme Court, which has shown interest in reinterpreting the law around the Capitol riot. Griffin previously asked the Supreme Court to hear a different legal challenge he brought related to January 6, following his removal from an elected public office. A judge jettisoned Griffin from his role as a New Mexico county commissioner, and the high court declined to hear his case seeking reinstatement. An attorney for Griffin from the federal public defender service didn’t immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment. (More at above url)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/comedian-anchorman-mr-show-sentenced-211158772.html Comedian from 'Anchorman' and 'Mr. Show' sentenced in Jan. 6 Capitol attack
Even the families of these violent insurrectionists want them kept in prison for a very long time. Jailed insurrectionist's family fears Trump pardon: 'I've got to keep him in jail' https://www.rawstory.com/stewart-rhodes-2669495293/
Lock Him Up. Letting him rot in prison can only improve the cartoon. 'Bob's Burgers' voice actor Jay Johnston gets a year in prison for role in Jan. 6 Prosecutors cited Johnston's lack of remorse and not accepting responsibility. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bobs-burgers-voice-actor-jay-johnston-gets-year/story?id=115228305
‘We need guns, bro… we need guns’: Trump-appointed judge throws the book at one of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters https://lawandcrime.com/high-profil...ook-at-one-of-the-most-violent-jan-6-rioters/ A Virginia man who smashed windows in the Speaker’s Lobby moments before Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by a U.S. Capitol officer during the Jan. 6 riots was sentenced to eight years in prison. Zachary Jordan Alam, 32, learned his fate this week. In addition to the prison time, he was also given 36 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $4,484 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich, a Donald Trump appointee, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in a press release. Alam told the court he wanted a full pardon after Donald Trump takes office in January and defended his actions, even though he said he knew they were illegal, reported NBC News’ Ryan Reilly, who has covered these cases extensively and written a book about them: “Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System.” “Trump just won the presidential election less than 48 hours ago,” Alam said. “Was the 2021 transfer of presidential power warranted? I don’t think so.” Alam was convicted in September of assaulting officers, civil disorder, destruction of government property, trespassing, disorderly conduct and picketing in a Capitol building. He helped other rioters scale barriers propped as make-shift ladders outside the Capitol. He entered the building at 2:17 p.m. through a broken window adjacent to the Senate Wing emergency exit doors, according to the statement of facts filed in his criminal caase. Alam spent 30 minutes inside roaming around. On one floor, he tried to kick in a door. On another floor, he threw a red velvet rope from a balcony at police officers below, court documents said. At 2:33 p.m., he was corralled in the Will Rogers corridor, where he yelled at officers, laughed, argued with other rioters, and joined the mob that pushed through the police line. Later, he went to the Speaker’s Lobby, where he looked through the glass door inside as members of Congress and staff were evacuating the chamber. “I’m going to f— you up,” he shouted at the front of the mob multiple times in the faces of officers standing guard. Alam moved to the doors, punched the glass repeatedly with his fist, and shattered three glass door panes as members. As he punched the door, Alam pushed up against three officers standing guard. Alam rallied the crowd, announcing that “the problem” was with the House members. Alam then used a black helmet to smash out three glass panes. As he was leaving the area, Alam called out to fellow rioters, “we need guns, bro … we need guns.” In the government’s sentencing memo, seeking 136 months of incarceration – or more than 11 years – prosecutors said the defendant was one of the most violent and aggressive rioters that day. “As established at trial, he spent the day antagonizing officers and inciting other rioters, culminating in his repeated violent and forceful attempts to reach congressional members and staffers as they frantically evacuated the House floor,” prosecutors said. Prosecutors said that after he was arrested on Jan. 30, 2021, at a motel in Denver, Pennsylvania, agents found evidence of his flight and his plans to dispose of evidence connecting him to Jan. 6. They found Alam’s journal, recording his reflections of that day and his plans to flee and conceal his identity, including setting up new bank accounts and using a “burner” phone to conceal his identity and location from law enforcement. In his sentencing memo asking for 57 months – or nearly five years incarceration – Alam’s attorney, Steven Metcalf, said he traveled alone, did not physically injure anyone, and left the building after Babbitt was shot by an officer in front of Alam. His client has acknowledged the seriousness of his charges, Metcalf wrote. He also said Alam has become a public figure of scrutiny on both the left and the right of the political mayhem ensuing following Jan. 6 and has been villainized as an “Antifa activist, anarchist, and even a federal agent, banned from so-called patriot groups,” Metcalf wrote. “Here, Mr. Alam is lost in this world. He is a loner, one who went to the Capitol on his own, and acted at times in a manner he may have believed others wanted him to act,” Metcalf wrote. “Alam wanted to fit in, it did not matter with whom, Alam just wanted to fit in somewhere because he has been rejected by everyone else in his life.” Alam is a medical school dropout whose father is of Palestinian descent, and his mother is of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, the document said. Dropping out of medical school strained his relationship with his father. After his Jan. 6 arrest, the relationship took another wrong turn. His struggles include living for a time in a storage unit, where he would sneak in and out so others would not see him. He showered at a local gym to get ready for the day with proper hygiene. Then COVID hit, and all the gyms closed. “Something then changed in Alam,” the memo said. “This is how Alam ended up in his position on January 6, 2021.”