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BumRushDaShow

(143,031 posts)
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 02:55 PM Nov 3

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-president’s election lies was sentenced to prison for participating in what his sentencing judge described as “a direct attack on the nation’s 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.
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Days before the election, DOJ continues to prosecute new Jan. 6 cases (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 3 OP
Keep it up and elect VP Harris to keep them behind bars. bottomofthehill Nov 3 #1
I sure hope we win this and.... wolfie001 Nov 3 #2
Nobody went to The Capital with love of country in their hearts. czarjak Nov 4 #3
NOBODY!!! PortTack Nov 4 #5
They love what they thought the country was. markodochartaigh Nov 4 #6
Well said -- a perceptive summation of the modern American reactionary mindset. (nt) Pinback Nov 4 #7
Might makes right is an age-old misconception. czarjak Nov 4 #8
Maybe I'll send him some soap-on-a-rope MadMike47 Nov 4 #4

bottomofthehill

(8,840 posts)
1. Keep it up and elect VP Harris to keep them behind bars.
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 03:31 PM
Nov 3

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)
2. I sure hope we win this and....
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 05:38 PM
Nov 3

....fire that spineless weasel MG on day 1!!!! Maybe have him hand in his resignation just after the election.

markodochartaigh

(2,171 posts)
6. They love what they thought the country was.
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 05:33 AM
Nov 4

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.

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