If the left weren't hypocrites about EVERYTHING they'd be conservatives.
This will be where the yapping monkeys will cry JAN 6TH JAN 6TH JAN 6TH JAN 6TH!!!!!!!!
Do you know they're so pathetic that they actually believe that we don't know the violence was committed by ANTIFA posing as MAGAat the behest of the democrats/pelosi?
Wait they actually believe it was actual conservatives. That's how dumb we all know they all are.
First rioter to enter U.S. Capitol in Jan. 6 insurrection is sentenced Michael Sparks, 47, A Kentucky man
Authorities assert Michael Sparks was among the group that confronted Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman.
Prosecutors said Sparks was part of a group of rioters — including one clutching a Confederate flag and another holding a sharpened spear — who came close to Vice President Mike Pence as Pence was being hustled out of the building for safety. The group confronted U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who diverted them away from an area Pence had just passed through. Rioters had earlier chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” after his refusal to heed President Donald Trump’s demand that he head off the electoral college count.
Sparks’s attorney, Scott T. Wendelsdorf with the federal public defender service in Louisville, argued...Wendelsdorf noted that it was a member of the Proud Boys, whose leader is serving 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy for leading the riot, who used a stolen police riot shield to break a window on the Capitol’s west side. It was that window that Sparks climbed through as authorities said another rioter was simultaneously breaking an adjacent window with a two-by-four beam.
The defense attorney argued in court papers that assertions that his client was the “first to enter the building” are
“technically true
in a timeline sense,” but that Sparks “did not lead the crowd into the building or cause the breach through which he and others entered. Actually, there were eight different points of access that day separately and independently exploited by the protesters.”
... remember: August 28, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/08/28/capitol-riot-sentence-trump-insurrection/
Sparks was driven to anger and extremes through social media and religious fervor, according to an account of his actions published in The Washington Post a month after the insurrection. That article notes that in his booking photo, he wore a T-shirt inscribed with “Armor of God” and quotes from a Bible verse about standing “against the devil’s schemes.”
Prosecutors said in their sentencing memorandum that Sparks entered the Capitol despite warnings from people behind him not to, and that his actions “acted like a green light for everybody behind him. … One might say Sparks helped light the fire that day using preparation and planning — including his protective body armor — to steel himself against officers attempting to hold back the mob.”
Prosecutors said Sparks and others entered the Capitol one floor above where Pence and senators were in session. In a criminal complaint, the FBI said a video published by The Post shows Sparks with a group of protesters inside the Capitol.
The group with Sparks encountered the lone Goodman at the bottom of a staircase, “standing in a doorway, trying to fend off a mob of armed rioters from further penetrating the building,” according to the sentencing memorandum filed by prosecutors.
Goodman testified their chants were deafening as they demanded, “Where they counting the f------ votes? Where they counting them votes at?” the sentencing memo states.
Prosecutors said that the group, with Sparks, advanced even after Goodman threatened to shoot and ultimately chased him up the stairs. “Sparks not only refused to leave, he shouted back at the police. Pointing at Goodman, Sparks shouted: ‘No, we’re here for you. We’re here for you guys,’” prosecutors wrote.