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I follow the J6 news fairly closely. Meaning, most headlines that feature it will generally get a scan by me. It interests me because I was so gobsmacked when I watched it live on the telly back in 2021. That a failed presidential candidate would intentionally inflame and then aim his followers that he knew had a propensity for violence and that a significant number of them were armed with guns….that he would intentionally direct them at a known-to-be undermanned Capitol was appalling to me. . It still is, three years later. A really terrible day for America, IMHO.
So, of the hundreds of feature stories that have been published about J6 those that focus on individual attackers I look for the most egregious. And so, just this morning in the Washington Post there are two. One about a defiant defendant in court whose defiance cost him more time tacked onto his sentence; and the second, a law enforcement officer himself, sentenced for his violent attack on Capitol policemen, one who was already down after being struck by others.
So I offer you short ‘tasters’ on each article with the hope that you will go to your WaPo subscription and read the whole enchilada, or start up a new subscription (check subscription deals on Amazon, Jeff Bezos owns both).
Anyway, here are a couple of paragraphs on each of these criminals:
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“An off-duty Tennessee sheriff’s deputy who claimed he was helping police was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in prison for aggravated assaults against two officers in one of the most violent areas of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.
Ronald McAbee, 30, struck D.C. police officer Carter Moore twice in the face while wearing hard-knuckle gloves and a bulletproof vest with two patches that read “SHERIFF” and “III” (for the Three Percenters right-wing, anti-government movement).
Moore was trying to help a fallen D.C. police officer, Andrew Wayte, after a third officer had been dragged down the steps and beaten at the entrance of a bloodily fought-over tunnel at the Lower West Terrace at about 4:30 p.m. Video showed that McAbee, another rioter and police then grabbed hold of Wayte and began pulling in different directions “in a violent tug-of-war with Wayte’s defenseless body as the rope,” U.S. District Judge Rudy Contreras said at McAbee’s sentencing hearing in D.C.
McAbee fell on Wayte as they slid down the steps in front of the tunnel archway, pinning him for about 25 seconds while rioters pulled off Wayte’s gas mask and hit his face with a chemical spray. "
(Pulled off the mask to spray him!!!! For Chrissake! )
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The second one, is of an attacker who likely didn’t help his case by…one, representing himself; two, by calling the judge a Nazi; and three, jeering at the jury.
I post this ‘challenging’ bloke’s story to highlight that amongst the duped and snookered Trump supporters that day there were accelerators who cheered on the violence. THOSE criminals need special attention by Sedition Hunters, the FBI, the DOJ prosecutors. Thankfully, 3+ years later our justice system continues to pursue the offenders. God bless America. (And Sedition Hunters.)
“Defiant Jan. 6 rioter spars with judge at sentencing hearing”
“Brandon Fellows, 29, was sentenced to 3½ years in prison as an exasperated federal judge boomed, ‘It’s time for you to grow up!’
A tree cutter who smoked marijuana in a senator’s office during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 3½ years in prison Thursday after his strategy of interrupting and challenging the sentencing judge seemed to blow up in his face.
“In all my years as a judge, and before that as a litigator, I have never seen such contemptuous conduct,” McFadden said at Thursday’s sentencing, recalling that Fellows also made “lewd comments” to his probation officer, “outlandish accusations” against prosecutors and heckling remarks to the jury as the verdicts were being read.
He tried to prevent the FBI from finding him by wrapping his cellphone in foil and wiping his data. Fellows, they said, entered the Capitol through a broken window after attending Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse.
……… “paraded” through the Capitol crypt with other rioters, taunted law enforcement officers, posed for photographs on a Capitol Police motorcycle outside the building, and then raved about the attack in media interviews and social media posts, prosecutors said.
“He told the jury he was having a blast,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Carolina Nevin said Thursday.
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I think it was Forrest who perceptively informed us all: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
So, of the hundreds of feature stories that have been published about J6 those that focus on individual attackers I look for the most egregious. And so, just this morning in the Washington Post there are two. One about a defiant defendant in court whose defiance cost him more time tacked onto his sentence; and the second, a law enforcement officer himself, sentenced for his violent attack on Capitol policemen, one who was already down after being struck by others.
So I offer you short ‘tasters’ on each article with the hope that you will go to your WaPo subscription and read the whole enchilada, or start up a new subscription (check subscription deals on Amazon, Jeff Bezos owns both).
Anyway, here are a couple of paragraphs on each of these criminals:
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“An off-duty Tennessee sheriff’s deputy who claimed he was helping police was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in prison for aggravated assaults against two officers in one of the most violent areas of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.
Ronald McAbee, 30, struck D.C. police officer Carter Moore twice in the face while wearing hard-knuckle gloves and a bulletproof vest with two patches that read “SHERIFF” and “III” (for the Three Percenters right-wing, anti-government movement).
Moore was trying to help a fallen D.C. police officer, Andrew Wayte, after a third officer had been dragged down the steps and beaten at the entrance of a bloodily fought-over tunnel at the Lower West Terrace at about 4:30 p.m. Video showed that McAbee, another rioter and police then grabbed hold of Wayte and began pulling in different directions “in a violent tug-of-war with Wayte’s defenseless body as the rope,” U.S. District Judge Rudy Contreras said at McAbee’s sentencing hearing in D.C.
McAbee fell on Wayte as they slid down the steps in front of the tunnel archway, pinning him for about 25 seconds while rioters pulled off Wayte’s gas mask and hit his face with a chemical spray. "
(Pulled off the mask to spray him!!!! For Chrissake! )
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The second one, is of an attacker who likely didn’t help his case by…one, representing himself; two, by calling the judge a Nazi; and three, jeering at the jury.
I post this ‘challenging’ bloke’s story to highlight that amongst the duped and snookered Trump supporters that day there were accelerators who cheered on the violence. THOSE criminals need special attention by Sedition Hunters, the FBI, the DOJ prosecutors. Thankfully, 3+ years later our justice system continues to pursue the offenders. God bless America. (And Sedition Hunters.)
“Defiant Jan. 6 rioter spars with judge at sentencing hearing”
“Brandon Fellows, 29, was sentenced to 3½ years in prison as an exasperated federal judge boomed, ‘It’s time for you to grow up!’
A tree cutter who smoked marijuana in a senator’s office during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 3½ years in prison Thursday after his strategy of interrupting and challenging the sentencing judge seemed to blow up in his face.
“In all my years as a judge, and before that as a litigator, I have never seen such contemptuous conduct,” McFadden said at Thursday’s sentencing, recalling that Fellows also made “lewd comments” to his probation officer, “outlandish accusations” against prosecutors and heckling remarks to the jury as the verdicts were being read.
He tried to prevent the FBI from finding him by wrapping his cellphone in foil and wiping his data. Fellows, they said, entered the Capitol through a broken window after attending Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse.
……… “paraded” through the Capitol crypt with other rioters, taunted law enforcement officers, posed for photographs on a Capitol Police motorcycle outside the building, and then raved about the attack in media interviews and social media posts, prosecutors said.
“He told the jury he was having a blast,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Carolina Nevin said Thursday.
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I think it was Forrest who perceptively informed us all: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
