Posted on 04/07/2021 6:46:18 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
Tensions are running high between guards and inmates at a D.C. jail housing many of the defendants in Jan. 6 cases, with at least one of those prisoners alleging that he was brutally beaten by correctional officers.
For weeks, Capitol riot defendants being held in Washington have complained that they are locked in their cells with virtually no human contact for 23 hours a day. But a startling, graphic account offered publicly in court on Tuesday by one such inmate, Ronald Sandlin, went further: alleging that guards have subjected those charged in the Jan. 6 events to violence, threats and verbal harassment.
“Myself and others involved in the Jan. 6 incident are scared for their lives, not from each other but from correctional officers,” Sandlin said during a bail hearing conducted by video before U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich. “I don’t understand how this is remotely acceptable,” he added, saying he was being subjected to “mental torture.”
In an unusual direct plea to the judge, Sandlin said another Capitol riot defendant, Ryan Samsel, “was severely beaten by correctional officers, [is now] blind in one eye, has a skull fracture and detached retina.”
Sandlin also described racial tension between minority guards and the largely white defendants, some of whom have been publicly accused of membership in or association with white supremacist groups.
Sandlin said guards tackled “to the ground” one high-profile prisoner, Richard Barnett, 60, who was photographed with his boot up on a desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. Sandlin said one of the guards declared, “I hate all white people and your honky religion.”
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I’ll say it: Good!
Why are these protestors being held at all?
Are not the anarchist and BLM rioters typically released almost immediately after arrest?
White prisoners, black guards, black supremacist city Mayor and management, I don’t like their odds in getting justice.
They are STILL being held without bail?!? Such rank hypocrisy on the left makes my skin crawl. This is a violation of their 8th Amendment rights among others.
Ryan Samsel, “was severely beaten by correctional officers, [is now] blind in one eye, has a skull fracture and detached retina.”
For the crime of being in the capitol it’s good that these people are being held on trumped up charges & being beaten in custody??? What happened to equal justice? That’s irrelevant to you?
It doesn’t look good.
Pics and publicly released hospital records would instantly go viral. His lawyer needs to get those out to the public.
They got two chances: Slim and none. Slim just left town.
You think it’s good the guards are beating and abusing them?
Black guards or blackguards?
This is beyond disturbing.
Good?? That’s an odd comment. Anyone beaten badly by guards without provocation that results in the loss of an eye and a dislocated retina can sue the DC Government and win a good million dollars.
Sure is.
They’ll get around to you, too, you’re just to dimwitted to see it coming.
What is good about beatings in jail over an overblown trespassing charge? One guy is now blind in one eye and you say good?
Political prisoners have no rights
Jack Boot Licker.
About 1,000,000 plus people went to Washington DC on January 6
I would say 90+ percent never got anywhere near the capital building and never would’ve thought about setting foot in there
Me? You could’ve had the capital police sitting there saying “come on in “
and I wouldn’t take that bait !
I was working that day when I saw what was happening in the Calvin a lot of my clients TV I was like “ this is a set up!! “.
And of course it was
Now I feel for these poor souls who are trapped there in hell with these awful people
Send the info to the Daily Mail. They are better at journalism than any American outlet. Maybe Breitbart could handle it but they have been squishy lately.
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