Jan 6 Breach of the Capitol: Consequences & Repercussions III

[Hans Blaster]

First Trump supporter to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6 sentenced to over 4 years in prison

Michael Sparks, who spent the weeks leading up to the Capitol attack consuming and regurgitating right-wing lies about the last presidential election, was sentenced to 53 months in federal prison at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, who also oversaw the seditious conspiracy trial of members of the Proud Boys.

“I don’t really think you appreciate the full gravity of what happened that day and frankly the full seriousness of what you did,” Kelly said, explaining why he went over the sentencing guidelines of 15 to 21 months.


(There is a lot of sharp comments from Judge Kelly in that article. It is worth reading.)

Sparks was the first person to actually enter the Capitol on that day, going through the window broken down by one of the Proud Boys previously sentenced by Judge Kelly.

 

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Man Nicknamed ‘Live Wire’ Pleads Guilty, Faces 6-Year Prison Stretch For Capitol Police Assault Plot On Jan 6​

Confronted with an overwhelming abundance of evidence, Dan Edwin Wilson, 48, of Louisville, pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct or injure a federal officer, as well as federal firearms offenses for possessing an unregistered firearm...
“I am ready to lay my life on the line. It is time for good men to do bad things.”

Militia group member sentenced to 5 years in prison for Capitol riot plot​

For weeks before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, Kentucky electrician Dan Edwin Wilson planned with others to attack the Capitol and stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, according to federal prosecutors.

 

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Trump ally Jeffrey Clark disciplinary hearing begins over role trying to overturn 2020 election​

Jeffrey Clark filing says he is ‘unindictable’ for anything related to Jan. 6 or other election subversion efforts​

[I gather he's saying the SCOTUS immunity decision means he can't be touched for Jan 6, so neither can the legal profession do anything to him.]

The letter itself amounts to a late-game effort to change the calculus as Clark attempts to have his removal effort adjudicated by the full D.C. Court of Appeals – in what is known as an “en banc” request.

In July, a three-judge panel of the appellate court shot down efforts to remove various bar disciplinary proceedings to federal court.

 

[Hans Blaster]

Jeffrey Clark filing says he is ‘unindictable’ for anything related to Jan. 6 or other election subversion efforts​

[I gather he's saying the SCOTUS immunity decision means he can't be touched for Jan 6, so neither can the legal profession do anything to him.]

The letter itself amounts to a late-game effort to change the calculus as Clark attempts to have his removal effort adjudicated by the full D.C. Court of Appeals – in what is known as an “en banc” request.

In July, a three-judge panel of the appellate court shot down efforts to remove various bar disciplinary proceedings to federal court.

That's weird, Jeffrey, I don't remember you being elected President. (The SC ruling in Trump v. US is about the immunity of the President, not his minions.)

 

[essentialsaltes]

Law enforcement searching for Jan. 6 rioter Anthony Vo, who failed to report to prison over summer​

Multiple sources told CBS News there is an active effort to find Antony Vo of Indiana, who was sentenced [to 9 months] in April and expected to report to the federal correctional facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, by early summer.

Vo had already drawn additional scrutiny and reprimands from the judge and prosecutors during his criminal case, after allegedly violating pretrial release conditions, referring to the court system as a "kangaroo court," criticizing the judge and posting conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021, on his social media account.

Vo, like most Jan. 6 defendants, was permitted to remain free from custody between his sentencing hearing and the start of his prison term, a period of time which typically spans several weeks.

 

[essentialsaltes]

AP News - Examining Three Cases of January 6th
These three convicted rioters carried out some of the most violent attacks against police officers guarding the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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A Jan. 6 rioter who was convicted of assaulting police with a deadly weapon was sentenced to spend his weekends in jail for the next year, one of the lightest penalties yet imposed on a rioter convicted of attacking law enforcement.

Paul Russell Johnson, 38, of Lanexa, Va., was one of five men who grabbed the bicycle racks being used as barricades by U.S. Capitol Police, lifted them into the air and smashed them into several officers, clearing a path from the Peace Circle to the Capitol for the thousands of Donald Trump supporters marching from the Ellipsis.

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A pair of brothers were criminally charged Thursday with assaulting a New York Times photographer and stealing her camera equipment as she sought to document the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Philip Walker, of Pennsylvania, and David Walker, of New Jersey, were among the rioters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, federal authorities charged. Minutes after entering the building, they allegedly assaulted a photographer who had been standing at the top of the east Rotunda stairs and fled with the photographer’s equipment.

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Outside the US Capitol, he wore a red coat and held a gun. It was January 6, 2021, and the gunman stood on a scaffold above the west plaza as a flag-waving mob pressed against a police line. He raised the .38 revolver toward the gray-white sky and pulled the trigger. Once, twice. The gunshots made a dull cracking sound in the winter afternoon. Below him, a few rioters seemed to cheer faintly in response. The man yelled something to the crowd, waving the gun in his left hand. Then he put it away, climbed down the scaffold, and disappeared.

The gunman’s name was John Banuelos, according to federal authorities. Despite having evidence that he brought a gun to the riot, the FBI did not arrest him until three years later, after video footage of the gunfire appeared on the internet. He was still at large in July 2021, when he took part in a fight in Salt Lake City that left another man dead.

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A federal judge sentenced a 35-year-old Colorado Springs man to seven months in prison Wednesday for breaching the U.S. Capitol, after investigators said he was pepper-sprayed by police but continued to record videos for social media, saying it was what he “needed to do” as a pastor.

Tyler Ethridge, who was convicted of several felony and misdemeanor charges in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, will also be required to serve two years of supervised release after his prison sentence and must pay $2,000 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia said in a news release.

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A convicted Jan. 6 rioter and Nazi sympathizer was honored with an award last month at former President Donald Trump's golf club in New Jersey, according to a new report.

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli was a special guest at the Eagle Council conference that was held in Bedminster, NPR investigative reporter Tom Dreisbach has discovered.

At one event, Trump sent a video praising the attendees as 'amazing patriots.' At the other, [Hale-Cusanelli] won an award."

 

[SimplyMe]

"A pair of brothers from Iowa and Utah have been arrested by federal officials and charged with allegedly assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.

"According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, 50-year-old Earl Jordan, of Dickens, Iowa, and 48-year-old Christopher Jordan, of St. George, Utah, have been charged with federal felony offenses of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder. They are also charged with misdemeanor offenses of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building." link

 

[essentialsaltes]

Andre Maurice Bonneau, 64, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder.

 

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Sixty-two-year-old Donald Lee Moss, of Elizabethtown, Ind., and 61-year-old James Link Behymer, of Hope, Ind., each pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers before a U.S. District Judge.

At around 2:13 p.m., documents state Behymer and Moss entered the U.S. Capitol building through the Senate Wing doors.

The two men then made their way toward the Crypt and the hallway linking the Senate Wing doors.

At about 2:31 p.m., documents state Moss carried a chair across the Crypt lobby and placed it in the path of the retractable ceiling door to prevent it from closing.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Dillon [Montana] man guilty of felony obstruction charges for role in Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach​

Henry Phillip “Hank” Muntzer, 55, was found guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder, both felonies, following a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb. [as well as some misdemeanors]

A supporter of former President Donald Trump from Montana, who bragged that not only would he be cleared of charges for entering the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6 riots but would be paid “a huge premium” for it, will spend two years in prison.

 

[Whyayeman]

A supporter of former President Donald Trump from Montana, who bragged that not only would he be cleared of charges for entering the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6 riots but would be paid “a huge premium” for it, will spend two years in prison.

A satisfying result.

 

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Trump calls 6 January 'day of love' when asked about Capitol riot​

During his "town hall" event in Miami, Florida, Trump was challenged to win back the vote of a man who said he had been disturbed by what happened after the Republican lost the 2020 vote.

"Nothing done wrong at all," Trump said.

"There were no guns down there. We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns.

"And when I say we, these are people that walked down - this was a tiny percentage of the overall which nobody sees and nobody, nobody shows. But that was a day of love."

During Wednesday's event with Univision, Trump also stood by baseless claims that immigrants from Haiti had eaten pets in the town of Springfield, Ohio - claiming he "was just saying what was reported".

 

[Hans Blaster]

Trump calls 6 January 'day of love' when asked about Capitol riot​

During his "town hall" event in Miami, Florida, Trump was challenged to win back the vote of a man who said he had been disturbed by what happened after the Republican lost the 2020 vote.

"Nothing done wrong at all," Trump said.

"There were no guns down there. We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns.

"And when I say we, these are people that walked down - this was a tiny percentage of the overall which nobody sees and nobody, nobody shows. But that was a day of love."

During Wednesday's event with Univision, Trump also stood by baseless claims that immigrants from Haiti had eaten pets in the town of Springfield, Ohio - claiming he "was just saying what was reported".

Is defendant Trump trying ensure additional charges after he loses? The current "So What?" thread (about Trump's disregard for the safety of VP Pence) has degenerated into a "whatabout" thread on "BLM". Someone there suggested 18 USC 373 (solicitation to commit a crime of violence) for actions at those events, but it might apply to Mr. Trump. Another "near by" offense is section 372 (conspiracy to injury officers) which has been applied in lieu of the 1512(c)(2) charge so badly wrecked by the Supreme Court. (If you get charged under 3 consecutive sections, is that a straight?)

 

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A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to assaulting police during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 17 months in prison on Thursday.

Dana Jean Bell's sentencing is just one among scores of other defendants set to face accountability for their roles in the attack on the U.S. Capitol in the coming weeks, even as former President Donald Trump attempts to rewrite the history of that day in his bid for reelection – including describing it as a "day of love" during a town hall Wednesday.

The videos also depict Bell shaking police barricades, pulling the East Rotunda doors open while an officer lay trapped behind the door, hurling a stanchion across the floor, inserting herself among officers treating a gunshot wound, disobeying police orders, shoving and elbowing officers, and clinging onto police equipment.

She was even seen attacking a news crew before punching and kicking bystanders who attempted to intervene.

 

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Trump criticized for comparing Jan. 6 defendants to WWII Japanese internment​

The remark, in an interview with pro-Trump radio host Dan Bongino that aired on Friday, was the latest escalation in Trump’s defense and glorification of charged and convicted rioters, including some who attacked police officers. Trump has repeatedly pledged to pardon the defendants and called for their immediate release.

“Nobody’s ever been treated like this,” Trump said in Friday’s interview. “Nobody’s ever — maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly. But you know, they were held too.”

In 1942, following Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into World War II, the federal government forcibly evacuated and detained about 112,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast, including 70,000 U.S. citizens. None of the detainees were individually charged or held on any individual suspicion, and they had no opportunity to contest their denial of liberty

 

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New Mexico county commissioner who refuses to certify recent election results sentenced for role in January 6 attack

He was sentenced to 14 days with time served, fined $3,000 and given one year supervised release with the requirement that he complete 60 hours of community service.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a Jan. 6 rioter’s misdemeanor trespassing conviction in connection with the 2021 Capitol attack.

Couy Griffin, a founder of “Cowboys for Trump” and former New Mexico county commissioner, challenged his 2022 conviction for entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.

 

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Mysterious Monument On Capitol Hill 'Honors' Jan. 6​

The monument will be there for seven days by permission of the National Park Service. The plaque reads:

This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election.

President Trump celebrates these heroes of January 6th as “unbelievable patriots” and “warriors.” This monument stands as testament to their daring sacrifice and lasting legacy.

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

Mysterious Monument On Capitol Hill 'Honors' Jan. 6​

The monument will be there for seven days by permission of the National Park Service. The plaque reads:

This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election.

President Trump celebrates these heroes of January 6th as “unbelievable patriots” and “warriors.” This monument stands as testament to their daring sacrifice and lasting legacy.

That is the level of class of the current Biden-Harris administration, under whom this Agency resides, and would have authorized said permit.

Yikes.

 

[essentialsaltes]

That is the level of class of the current Biden-Harris administration, under whom this Agency resides, and would have authorized said permit.

The First Amendment forbids the abridgment of free speech.
This includes viewpoint discrimination.

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

The First Amendment forbids the abridgment of free speech.
This includes viewpoint discrimination.

There are exclusions: False statements of fact are an exclusion, even those with a false factual connotation, such as this one. Excretory functions also fall under an exception, as does work that the work that lacks serious political, literary, artistic, or scientific value"
This is just the government permitting trolling because the Biden Harris Administration agrees with the viewpoint.