Days before the election, DOJ continues to prosecute new Jan. 6 cases
Source: NBC News
Nov. 3, 2024, 8:00 AM EST
WASHINGTON Standing inside a sparsely filled federal courtroom in Washington on Friday afternoon, another Donald Trump supporter who committed crimes on Jan. 6, 2021, because he believed the then-presidents election lies was sentenced to prison for participating in what his sentencing judge described as a direct attack on the nations democracy.
Wearing a blue suit as he shook, sniffled and fought back tears, 38-year-old Troy Weeks talked extensively about his rough childhood, bragged that he refused to take part in a walkout when he was in high school, quoted scripture and apologized to one of the few people in the courtroom gallery: former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, a military veteran who was repeatedly assaulted while protecting the Capitol nearly four years ago.
I feel ashamed, said Weeks, who pleaded guilty in May to two felonies, including assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers, as well as several misdemeanors. The judge sentenced him to 21 months in federal prison.
In their sentencing memo, prosecutors sought more than two years in prison for Weeks, writing that he encouraged other rioters to push against the police, pushed up against the police himself, and tried to grab a can of OC spray from a Metropolitan Police Department Officer.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/new-jan-6-arrests-sentences-ahead-2024-election-rcna178505
There were 6 others arrested as well, noted later in the OP linked article.
bottomofthehill
(8,840 posts)And thanks to USCP Sgt Gonell (forced to medically retire from his injuries on 1/6) for continuing to show up and ensure Justice is served.
wolfie001
(3,748 posts)....fire that spineless weasel MG on day 1!!!! Maybe have him hand in his resignation just after the election.
czarjak
(12,459 posts)markodochartaigh
(2,171 posts)A Darwinian, Randian paradise where the strongest crush the weak. Where the whiter you are, the righter you are. Where the more money you have, the more god loves you. Where deviation from the norm is evil, and where freedom means free to conform to the norm. Where power and respect flow up and responsibility to obey is for the weak. Where Adam is in charge and Eve in thrall. This country does exist, and not only in their rigid, unyielding minds. It exists in great swaths of the US map colored red, where opportunity for the working class long ago fled to the areas colored blue.
Pinback
(12,898 posts)czarjak
(12,459 posts)It's not everlasting.