by Tristan Justice
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly began handing down sentences for “Proud Boy” defendants convicted in the turmoil of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Joseph Biggs, who led dozens of demonstrators at the Capitol, was given a 17-year sentence by the judge on Aug. 31. Two more Proud Boy activists were sentenced to a combined 28 years on Friday. Ethan Nordean, the leader of a Seattle chapter, was given an 18-year sentence, and Dominic Pezzola was sentenced to 10 years.
The latest sentence came down on Tuesday for Proud Boy Chairman Enrique Tarrio who the judge gave 22 years.
Federal prosecutors used terrorist enhancements to extend the convicts’ sentences over a riot where the only fatal victims were pro-Trump demonstrators. Biggs’ 17-year stay was enhanced over the defendant’s destruction of a fence on Capitol grounds.
😡 Proud Boys member Joe Biggs got 17 years for doing this to a bike rack in DC.
Antifa and BLM did the same, burned down buildings, and tried to kill people yet weren’t prosecuted.
TWO-TIERED JUSTICE!!pic.twitter.com/oVM0Yor1n5
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) September 1, 2023
Judge Kelly justified the lengthy prison terms during his court address to Nordean and Pezzola by declaring the Capitol riot a “national disgrace.”
The decades-long prison sentences, however, represent a radical departure from how domestic terrorists were treated after far-left revolutionaries catalyzed the most destructive explosion of civil unrest in decades. The riots for social justice that became routine throughout 2020 cost more than 66 times the inflated estimates of the Capitol carnage. That’s just accounting for the two-week aftermath of the riots over George Floyd’s death alone.
Residents in Kenosha, Wisconsin, were still recovering last year from the devastation of the 2020 riots stemming from a police shooting of an armed 29-year-old black man.
Far-left demonstrators went largely unpunished for the carnage that wrecked mainstreets across the nation throughout the presidential election year while Democrats and the corporate press downplayed the damage.
Former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, who enabled the complete takeover of a city neighborhood to become known as Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), labeled the turbulent “summer of love.” CNN made a mockery of the network when the channel covered the Kenosha riots as “mostly peaceful” while a car lot burned in the background. Vice President Kamala Harris even encouraged followers to deliver bail money to those arrested for crimes related to the Minneapolis riots. As it turns out, many of the defendants Harris encouraged people to bail out were repeat offenders with violent histories.
The sentences eventually handed down over the eruption of far-left terrorism paled in comparison to the decades in prison given to Jan. 6 demonstrators. A Minnesota man, for example, was sentenced to just four years for lighting the Minneapolis police station on fire.
While standing in front of the burning police headquarters, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi tried to sell the riots around him as not “generally speaking, unruly.”
"This mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly.
But fires have been started."
MSNBC reporter says protests in Minneapolis are not "generally speaking, unruly" as buildings burn in the background. pic.twitter.com/IzzEmKgxhM
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 29, 2020
In January, a federal judge sentenced a pair of disbarred attorneys to just more than a year in prison for setting ablaze a New York City police car with a Molotov cocktail. While prosecutors similarly used terrorist enhancements to recommend longer prison sentences, the requested term was only for 18-24 months for ex-lawyer Colinford Mattis in contrast to the decades sought for Jan. 6 defendants.
Given the contrast between Jan. 6 prisoners and left-wing anarchists, it should come as no surprise that the most vitriolic of the D.C. judges to preside over Capitol riot defendants is also assigned to former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case.
In the real world, attorneys fire bombing police cars would get a harsh sentence merely due to the fact that they, above all others, should know better. But, they get the leftist exemption.
ANTIFA laid siege to a FEDERAL courthouse in 2020 for a week. Who is in jail for 22 years for that? ANTIFA tried to barricade cops in their headquarters and burn them to death. Who is in jail for that?
Anyone who committed any crime on January 6th should pay the price (and that would include Michael Byrd), but it should be relative to the crime itself, not exaggerated to discourage anyone else from opposing government corruption.
Precisely, except to encourage more of the same the left attempts to normalize actions committed by the left. They should employ the broken window policing for everyone not just those not on the left.
I meant right, damn editing dysfunction.
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So, Hillary should be facing years in prison by this logic.
Why hasn’t John Sullivan been arrested, tried and imprisoned? He broke into the Capital, carried a knife and incited violence.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/known-capitol-riot-leader-spent-one-day-in-jail-while-80-others-languish-in-dc-gulag
They will not punish their own.
Democrats take an oath to protect the guilty.