Tarrio’s sentence is the longest so far among more than 1,100 Capitol riot cases.
By way too much of a margin. And not because his sentence was too long.
They all should have been at least this long considering that the punishment for treason doesn't exactly have a light touch.
That said, the fact that this guy gets 22 years and most of them get a couple of years makes me wonder what's different about his situation.
(Looks at picture) Oh. Really, it's that simple eh?
I think it has more to do with his involvement as an organizer, and he probably got of light because supposedly he used to be an FBI informant or something.
Iirc he wasn't even in DC at the time of the insurrection. However, he was nearby in Virginia (I think?) calling the shots and issuing orders.
It's entirely because of his actions as an organizer that he's getting charged.
One of the only Jan 6 insurrectionists to get a reasonably high jailtime is also one of the only nonwhite ones. I wonder why that is 🤔
Why are we updating a four month article as if it just happened? I'm noticing this happens fairly often on Lemmy.
Probably people who haven't seen it before and it's not exactly overshadowed because of how sparse posting is on lemmy compared to reddit.
I'm one of those!
Why not? Just because it's not the latest news doesn't mean it's not news.
Well that's not news, that'll be olds.
Only if you knew about it is it olds. It was news to me.
Agree, excited to see it but it does make it seem "current events".
Let's get some moon landing posts
I'm noticing this happens fairly often on {insert social media platform here}
What a beautiful thing
He should have gotten the full 33 year sentence.
Even if this event is a bit old, I think I see the point in reposting it. A right-wing liar will repeat a lie often enough, and that repetition will embed that idea in people's heads.
This is truth, and it is so incredibly relevant to our situation right now. Maybe it is a few months old, but we need to internalize on a visceral level that j6 participants are criminals who were brought before the law and rightfully punished for offenses against all of us. This needs to be publicised, and if it means we see this exact article (and hopefully similar ones for others involved) over and over again, then that's the way it has to be.
Sept 6 2023. Old news.
still good news
I'm guessing because Jan 6 was recent that they thought this needed brought up again. Shrug
Will he still be a proud boy senior citizen when he is released back to a world that has forgotten all about him?
Prosecutors sought 33 years.
Dumb fucking uncle Tom mother fucker. What the hell was that idiot thinking? The gqp would have turned on his ass quickly, given the wanted circumstances.
Can Afro-Cubans be Uncle Toms? How about when you're just half Afro-Cuban and half WASP?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 election, capping the case with the stiffest punishment that has been handed down yet for the U.S. Capitol attack.
Tarrio, 39, pleaded for leniency before the judge imposed the prison term topping the 18-year sentences given to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one-time Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean for seditious conspiracy and other convictions stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
Tarrio and three lieutenants were convicted in May of seditious conspiracy and other crimes after a months-long trial that served as a vivid reminder of the violent chaos fueled by Trump’s lies about the election that helped inspire right-wing extremists like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
Prosecutors had sought 33 years behind bars for Tarrio, describing him as the ringleader of a plot to use violence to shatter the cornerstone of American democracy and overturn the election victory by Joe Biden, a Democrat, over Trump, the Republican incumbent.
Tarrio wasn’t in Washington, D.C, when Proud Boys members joined thousands of Trump supporters, who smashed windows, beat police officers and poured into the House and Senate chambers as lawmakers met to certify Biden’s victory.
The backbone of the government’s case was hundreds of messages exchanged by Proud Boys in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that prosecutors say showed how the extremists saw themselves as revolutionaries and celebrated the Capitol attack, which sent lawmakers running into hiding.
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Tarrio wasn’t in Washington, D.C, when Proud Boys members joined thousands of Trump supporters, who smashed windows, beat police officers and poured into the House and Senate chambers as lawmakers met to certify Biden’s victory.
Of-fucking-course
Remember when being convicted of sedition meant a short drop and a sudden stop?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
This Pepperidge Farm must be absolutely haunted by the past.
Pepperidge Farms doesn't want to remember.
This is the finding out part.
What a dumbass. Can you imagine going to prison for the likes of Archie BunkerBitch?
"I'm going to prison for an NFT salesman."
---Baked Alaska, Unite the Right organizer and white supremacist terrorist shithead
Didn't that shithead get like 30 days or something? All of the terrorists that entered that building that day should be getting decades in prison. The slap on the wrist nonsense is just ridiculous.
Also, it still pisses me off that they knew for months ahead of time these asshats were planning on doing something in DC, and essentially did nothing. Probably because there are far too many fascist sympathizers in government. We all know that if BLM or Antifa had planned something like this in the open, that the National Guard would be there with shoot to kill orders. I just hope they have definite plans for 2024, for Pete's sake.
What is it these fascist terrorist fucks like to say again?
Oh yeah.
"fuck around and find out" fucker
I've never associated that saying with fascists.
Good. One less idiot on the road. Keep them coming. Prison is a good place for those people.
“It can’t happen again. It can’t happen again,” the judge repeated.
👏
I want to ask him one simple question: are you still proud?
And is he still going to be a white nationalist in prison as a brown man?
I wonder how he enjoys prison.
sucks to suck, traitor. when I get to hell, imma find you and spit on you.
Was this the Proud Boy that wanted to have his ass fucked to prove his heterosexuality, or was it one of the other ones?
that was dipshit #2, not dipshit #1, pictured here. I believe dipshit #1 replaced dipshit #2 after dipshit #2 stepped down.
Lol. Get fukt. Trump next, plz.
By way too much of a margin. And not because his sentence was too long.
They all should have been at least this long considering that the punishment for treason doesn't exactly have a light touch.
That said, the fact that this guy gets 22 years and most of them get a couple of years makes me wonder what's different about his situation.
(Looks at picture) Oh. Really, it's that simple eh?
I think it has more to do with his involvement as an organizer, and he probably got of light because supposedly he used to be an FBI informant or something.
Iirc he wasn't even in DC at the time of the insurrection. However, he was nearby in Virginia (I think?) calling the shots and issuing orders.
It's entirely because of his actions as an organizer that he's getting charged.
One of the only Jan 6 insurrectionists to get a reasonably high jailtime is also one of the only nonwhite ones. I wonder why that is 🤔
Why are we updating a four month article as if it just happened? I'm noticing this happens fairly often on Lemmy.
Probably people who haven't seen it before and it's not exactly overshadowed because of how sparse posting is on lemmy compared to reddit.
I'm one of those!
Why not? Just because it's not the latest news doesn't mean it's not news.
Well that's not news, that'll be olds.
Only if you knew about it is it olds. It was news to me.
Agree, excited to see it but it does make it seem "current events".
Let's get some moon landing posts
I'm noticing this happens fairly often on {insert social media platform here}
What a beautiful thing
He should have gotten the full 33 year sentence.
Even if this event is a bit old, I think I see the point in reposting it. A right-wing liar will repeat a lie often enough, and that repetition will embed that idea in people's heads.
This is truth, and it is so incredibly relevant to our situation right now. Maybe it is a few months old, but we need to internalize on a visceral level that j6 participants are criminals who were brought before the law and rightfully punished for offenses against all of us. This needs to be publicised, and if it means we see this exact article (and hopefully similar ones for others involved) over and over again, then that's the way it has to be.
Sept 6 2023. Old news.
still good news
I'm guessing because Jan 6 was recent that they thought this needed brought up again. Shrug
Will he still be a proud
boysenior citizen when he is released back to a world that has forgotten all about him?Prosecutors sought 33 years.
Dumb fucking uncle Tom mother fucker. What the hell was that idiot thinking? The gqp would have turned on his ass quickly, given the wanted circumstances.
Can Afro-Cubans be Uncle Toms? How about when you're just half Afro-Cuban and half WASP?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 election, capping the case with the stiffest punishment that has been handed down yet for the U.S. Capitol attack.
Tarrio, 39, pleaded for leniency before the judge imposed the prison term topping the 18-year sentences given to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one-time Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean for seditious conspiracy and other convictions stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
Tarrio and three lieutenants were convicted in May of seditious conspiracy and other crimes after a months-long trial that served as a vivid reminder of the violent chaos fueled by Trump’s lies about the election that helped inspire right-wing extremists like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
Prosecutors had sought 33 years behind bars for Tarrio, describing him as the ringleader of a plot to use violence to shatter the cornerstone of American democracy and overturn the election victory by Joe Biden, a Democrat, over Trump, the Republican incumbent.
Tarrio wasn’t in Washington, D.C, when Proud Boys members joined thousands of Trump supporters, who smashed windows, beat police officers and poured into the House and Senate chambers as lawmakers met to certify Biden’s victory.
The backbone of the government’s case was hundreds of messages exchanged by Proud Boys in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that prosecutors say showed how the extremists saw themselves as revolutionaries and celebrated the Capitol attack, which sent lawmakers running into hiding.
The original article contains 1,057 words, the summary contains 265 words. Saved 75%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Of-fucking-course
Remember when being convicted of sedition meant a short drop and a sudden stop?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
This Pepperidge Farm must be absolutely haunted by the past.
Pepperidge Farms doesn't want to remember.
This is the finding out part.
What a dumbass. Can you imagine going to prison for the likes of Archie BunkerBitch?
"I'm going to prison for an NFT salesman."
---Baked Alaska, Unite the Right organizer and white supremacist terrorist shithead
Didn't that shithead get like 30 days or something? All of the terrorists that entered that building that day should be getting decades in prison. The slap on the wrist nonsense is just ridiculous.
Also, it still pisses me off that they knew for months ahead of time these asshats were planning on doing something in DC, and essentially did nothing. Probably because there are far too many fascist sympathizers in government. We all know that if BLM or Antifa had planned something like this in the open, that the National Guard would be there with shoot to kill orders. I just hope they have definite plans for 2024, for Pete's sake.
What is it these fascist terrorist fucks like to say again?
Oh yeah.
"fuck around and find out" fucker
I've never associated that saying with fascists.
Good. One less idiot on the road. Keep them coming. Prison is a good place for those people.
👏
I want to ask him one simple question: are you still proud?
And is he still going to be a white nationalist in prison as a brown man?
I wonder how he enjoys prison.
sucks to suck, traitor. when I get to hell, imma find you and spit on you.
Was this the Proud Boy that wanted to have his ass fucked to prove his heterosexuality, or was it one of the other ones?
that was dipshit #2, not dipshit #1, pictured here. I believe dipshit #1 replaced dipshit #2 after dipshit #2 stepped down.