Ray Epps

What marching orders did Epps give?
The man expresses concern for various people who are in the crowd on the street that evening. He says that people are "straggling out in 1s and 2s. That's not smart, man. We need to find someone to announce they need to go in groups."

While speaking on the livestream, he mentions that he despises Black Lives Matterand despises Antifa and that he has "stood them down myself.”

At another point, he says, "We need to go into the Capitol."
 
This probably explains the lighter sentence:

However, several “distinctive and compelling mitigating factors” set Epps’s case apart from other rioters’ cases, prosecutors said. They noted Epps turned himself in two days after the riot and attempted to de-escalate conflict between law enforcement and rioters at least five times that day.
 

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