Daniel Rodriguez (photo, left), 40, of Fontana, California, is the rioter who tased Officer Michael Fanone in the neck during the Jan. 6 riot. A federal judge sentenced him to 12½ years in prison on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, CNN reported here. Prosecutors characterized Rodri[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Insurrection’
D.C. has the best protests
Honking horns! sirens! confrontations! You can get that in lots of cities, but only Washington D.C. has a live streamer calling herself “Anarchy Princess” who marches in front of Jan. 6 sympathizers shouting into a megaphone: “Terrorists coming, watch out, there’s terrorists behind m[...]
Oath Keepers sentences
Leading figures in the Oath Keepers, a rightwing paramilitary group (details here), are getting the longest Capitol riot sentences so far. It seems pretty clear federal courts consider the group revolutionaries. But their sentences for Jan. 6 crimes also reflect judges’ reaction to advance pla[...]
Two in, one out
On the same day Oath Keeper honchos Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs were sentenced to 18 and 12 years in prison (see stories here and here), Jacob Chansley, the s0-called “QAnon Shaman,” was released from a halfway house (see story here). Chansley (photo, left), a full-time protester befo[...]
Ashli Babbitt’s mother is a nutcase
Losing a child is heartbreaking, and grieving parents don’t hurt less if their child was a criminal. Ashli Babbitt was committing a felony when she attacked the final thin line of police defending members of Congress sheltering a few feet away. Subsequent investigations exonerated the cop who [...]
Kentucky man sets record for longest Jan. 6 sentence
Peter Schwartz (photo, left), 49, a welder from Owensburg, Kentucky, drew the longest prison sentence yet given to a Jan. 6 rioter. He deserves it. Schwartz has 38 prior convictions, 11 involving crimes of violence, some against police officers, which the judge factored that into his sentence. AOL N[...]
Montana GOPers struggle with American vocabulary
Republicans usually can handle the meanings one-syllable English words, although spelling can be a challenge (e.g. “too” versus “to”); but asking them to comprehend a 4-syllable word is a bridge too far. For example, insurrection ĭn″sə-rĕk′shən noun The act or an inst[...]
“Trump made me do it”
“A lawyer for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio of Florida said Donald Trump is to blame for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and federal authorities are using Tarrio as a scapegoat for the former president’s actions,” the Associated Press reported on Tuesday, Ap[...]
Jan. 6 rioter gets 52 months for fire extinguisher attack
Robert Sanford (photo, left), 57, a retired fireman from Boothwyn, Pennyslvania, was sentenced to 52 months in prison for injuring two police officers with a fire extinguisher during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot (see video below, and read story here). That’s longer than most people need to complete [...]
Little waif blowing in the wind
It’s not the defense attorney’s fault. Making excuses for his client’s criminal behavior is his job. Riley Williams (photo, left), 24, is a high-profile Capitol rioter described by prosecutors as “an ‘accelerant’ of the mob” who “‘gleefully direc[...]