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According to the Tennessee Star, the jail where some rioters /trespassers are kept, houses 1,500 inmates. They are confined to their jail cells 22 hours per day, an increase of one hour over what it was last month. They are prohibited from going outside.
SOME ONLY TRESPASSED, OTHERS ARE HELD AND HAVEN’T BEEN CHARGED
As to those being held for being present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, many are being held in pretrial detention on charges ranging from knowingly entering or remaining in restricted grounds (trespassing) without authority to conspiracy, assault, and obstruction of an official proceeding.
Some haven’t been charged with anything.
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Many participants in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots are being held in solitary confinement in Washington, D.C.'s city jail, a situation that's drawing scrutiny from Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bob Casey and the American Civil Liberties Union.
D-Senator Warren Criticism Of Treatment Of Those Placed in Prolonged Solitary Confinement:
- "I do not believe in solitary confinement for extended periods of time for anyone.”
The American Civil Liberties Union, which has recently drawn criticism for favoring liberal causes over its tradition of representing unsympathetic clients and causes, is also weighing in on the side of Trump protesters being held alone:
-- "Prolonged solitary confinement is torture and certainly should not be used as a punitive tool to intimidate or extract cooperation." (- Tammie Gregg, deputy director of the ACLU National Prison Project)
“Nobody should be detained indefinitely in America for domestic law purposes. So they deserve their day in court”
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Americans who were arrested, participated in no violence, and were eventually charged with a misdemeanor were forced to wait 6 months before getting a court date. Such abuse / incompetence violates Americans' right to a speedy trial.
Also, despite claiming the treatment of these people was NOT partisan, (liberal) Prosecuting Attorneys withheld 'deferred prosecution agreements'- an agreement that says if defendants stay out of trouble - from 1/6 defendants who merely waked through the Capitol without engaging in any violence, while these agreements were abundantly / readily given to domestic terrorists Antifa and BLM members who participated in highly destructive riots across the country last summer that caused BILLIONS of dollars in damages to democrat-run cities across the US.
Defendants held for prolonged periods of time that exceeded legal time limits people can be held without being charged with a crime, Americans being placed in prolonged / excessive Solitary Confinement (according to Democrats like D-Warren and the ACLU, defendants treated / charged differently than liberal / Let-Wing domestic criminals / terrorists....
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Video evidence shows, before the violence began on 1/6, Sullivan inciting violence, celebrating when he gets those around him to join in, and shows him encouraging / continuing to whip up the mob mentality DURING the violence...
...and you still post the OPINION that if the Conservatives/pro-Trump attendees had not allowed themselves to be whipped up into a mob-mentality frenzy and violence by Sullivan, had not allowed themselves to be egged-on by Sullivan .... in an attempt to excuse / minimalize what Sullivan was caught on video doing....the violence on 1/6 would have been prevented.
On this, I agree with you. In the end people are responsible for their own actions, and those who engaged in violence on 1/6 should be and have excessively been held accountable for their actions....but snowflakes can NOT escape the part Sullivan played in making sure it happened. The video of Sullivan initiating the violence, whipping it up, inciting it, and egging it on out-weigh your biased OPINION.
There ya go, Tiger....
ROTFLMAO!
I'm in the odd position of thanking you for this link..another cogent NPR report--which, BTW, I imagine you never read..or listened to?
I recommend this article to all~
The partisan cherry-pickers will have a ball..but taken as a whole..a lot of info.
Allow me to quote:
The attack on the Capitol is something most Americans watched on TV or Facebook or Twitter, from the police battered in hand-to-hand combat on the stairs, to the fatal shooting of a woman just outside the House chamber.
In the weeks afterward, there was a general sense that the Jan. 6 cases would be of the slam-dunk variety. After all, the events took place not just before our eyes but also at a time when the endless selfies, livestreamed video and GPS locations were easily vacuumed up for use in court later. But attorneys working for the defense describe prosecutors as overwhelmed by the evidence and struggling to build cases.
"The evidence is significantly more complicated for them than they thought it was going to be, that's clear," Greg Hunter, a defense attorney who is working on a dozen Jan. 6 cases, told NPR. "Every one of those people was carrying a smartphone, every one of them, and they're all taking pictures and videos and all that evidence has actually slowed everything down."
Twenty-five people have pleaded guilty so far, which leaves a good 550 more cases left to resolve.
Three categories of defendants
The Justice Department has created a kind of framework for prosecutions, dividing the Jan. 6 defendants into three categories. The first includes people such as Ianni who went inside the Capitol and allegedly walked around but aren't charged with property damage or assaulting police.The shorthand used to describe these people (both among some Justice Department insiders and defense attorneys) is "the tourist cases" — a nickname derived from the words of Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., who rather infamously said, "If you didn't know the TV footage was a video from Jan. 6, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit."
The second category of defendants includes those who broke into the Capitol, damaged property and attempted to stop the certification of the 2020 election. They are facing charges of civil disorder and assault and include people such as Tampa, Fla., crane operator Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38.
Hodgkins pleaded guilty in June to one count of obstructing an official proceeding, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Prosecutors asked for 18 months. This month, U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss sentenced him to somewhat less than that: eight months because, the judge said, he pleaded guilty early and seemed remorseful about what he had done. Some two dozen others have also pleaded guilty in recent weeks.
And finally there is a category that prosecutors have yet to define precisely. These are the people investigators believe are connected to right-wing extremist groups such as the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters. Officials are investigating whether or not there is hard evidence that shows the assault was planned in advance. Illuminating that would go a long way toward clarifying what actually took place that day.
Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security in the Obama administration, said the Justice Department has decided to play hardball with Jan. 6 defendants — hoping to prevent future attacks. It has opted for a legal strategy in the mold of shock and awe: Arrest everyone, charge everyone.
"You start with the FBI and the investigations that are going on, and you keep them coming," she said. "And every jurisdiction has these cases, and if I sound harsh, good, because this was an attempt to undermine a valid American election."
The Justice Department announced in early July that the arrests and charges aren't over. It expected to round up hundreds more people in the coming months.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys NPR talked to agreed about one thing: The best way for the nation to understand what took place Jan. 6 is to present evidence in court that shows what happened. Collectively, America has yet to decide whether Jan. 6 was a protest that went off the rails or a calculated plan to launch a coup. A full hearing may help provide a more satisfying answer.
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