Posted on 09/05/2023 2:56:05 PM PDT by Coronal
WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A former chairman of the right-wing Proud Boys group was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump trying to overturn the former president's election defeat.
Enrique Tarrio was convicted of charges, including seditious conspiracy, for his role in planning the storming of the Capitol, when thousands of supporters of the Republican then-U.S. president violently tried to stop Congress from certifying the results of an election that Trump falsely claimed had widespread fraud.
Federal prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly to impose a 33-year prison sentence on Tarrio, who was not present at the Capitol on the day of the violence because another judge had ordered him to stay out of Washington. Prosecutors said he helped direct the attack from Baltimore.
Tarrio's attorneys had asked for a substantially shorter sentence.
Kelly last week sentenced another far-right Proud Boys leader, Ethan Nordean, to 18 years, less than the 27 years prosecutors had sought. Oath Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes in May was also sentenced to 18 years. Nordean and Rhodes had previously been tied for the longest sentence handed down in the case.
More than 1,100 people have been arrested on charges related to the Capitol assault, and of those at least 630 have pleaded guilty and at least 110 have been convicted at trial. Five people, including a police officer, died during or shortly after the riot and more than 140 police officers were injured. The Capitol suffered millions of dollars in damage.
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My theory is they are being threatened by these domestic enemies that are occupying our government and pretty much in control of everything. Ben Stein says the same thing. He actually compares it to the Nazis taking over France and the damn media has the average person in the dark about it.
THIS SILENCE is precisely why the cucked Republicrats are, with rare exceptions, utterly repugnant to anyone paying attention.
Protests are American as Apple Pie. Timothy Kelly is nothing more than a tool of the weaponization of the American justice system. A sad day for the USA.
Be afraid, be very afraid. Remember what he said?
“They are coming after me to get to you”
Absolutely. I guarantee you 100% if these domestic enemies steal the 2024 election as well, Freerepublic, all conservative radio, TV will be banned and if you speak out against the occupation you will be arrested. That’s how fast they will move on things
I read an article stating that in DC the average sentence for armed robbery was 5.5 years and for murder was 7.5
years.
If you call the entirety of what happened on J6 a “protest” then I’m surprised you’re able to work your keyboard because your brain ain’t firing its neurons.
Boogaloo Brothers are bad people. They assassinated at least two police officers in San Fransisco. Perhaps the other groups also involve murders. Perhaps not. I don’t know.
The relevant questions are: (1) are right-wing and left-wing assassins treated the same by the law? (2) are people who are basically law-abiding but get caught in a demonstration that turns into a riot treated the same?
Perhaps more fundamentally, what is your model for bad people? Do you agree with Trump, when he said - following Charlottesville - there are good people and bad people on both sides? Or, do you think - like the media - that there are only bad people on the right?
......and the cold blooded murderer of Ashlee Babbitt goes free with a promotion.
I doubt that. He probably is a RINO.
Trump’s inauguration cannot come soon enough.
Judge Kelly ... another Trump dis-appointment. Next time he’s President, Trump should wear a tin foil hat to prevent the other side from using mind control to force him to make so many bad appointments.
Bull crap.
Almost a guarantee that Kelly is a stooge of the Deep State.
I just realized that Enrique Tarrio is an African-American.
White Bread Tim Kelly enjoyed lynching this uppity Republican.
The “right”?
Certainly this is not CONSERVATISM, if that is the point.
These are good questions, though.
The way I look at it, all extremes should be prosecuted.
People can go back and see my posts from three or four years ago about the Antifa scumbags. I don’t make distinctions, or exceptions.
A true Trump judge would have gotten a 52 to 48 confirmation vote.
Kelly got a 94 to 2 confirmation vote.
So you’re saying this is just another in a looooong line of mistakes Trump made in his hiring/judicial appointments? I don’t think he should be POTUS again. Too many mistakes.
Remember the stooge "Dirty Emmet" Sullivan, who ruthlessly went after General Flynn.
Maybe us patriots who know about the stolen election will wind up the same way as poor Sophie Scholl.
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