Another one of the participants in the 1/6 insurrection is going to jail, at least for a little while. This is another of the smallest offenders, charged only with “illegal picketing”, no violence or stealing souvenirs.
from the San Jose Mercury News (probably paywalled)
A federal judge sentenced a Gilroy woman to 45 days of incarceration Wednesday morning for her participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol, court records show.
Mariposa Castro, who also goes by Imelda Acosta and ran a yoga studio in the South Bay, wrote a letter to the court apologizing for her “regrettable lapse in judgment (that) has had a negative affect on my family, and all concerned.” She also said that she wasn’t meant to be taken literally when she yelled “this is war” as she and thousands of others stormed into the U.S. Capitol, demanding that former president Donald Trump be awarded a second term even though he lost the 2020 election.
Castro pleaded guilty last year to illegally picketing inside the U.S. Capitol, a federal offense. She is one of five Bay Area residents implicated in what has become the biggest prosecution in U.S. history, but with most defendants facing misdemeanor trespassing charges.
The San Francisco Chronicle story gives more detail on how she was drawn into Trumpism. I do not understand a Mexican immigrant being attracted to a candidate and party so hateful about immigrants, especially Mexicans.
She’s learned the lies, that’s for sure.
In a Feb. 9, 2021, interview with the FBI after her arrest, Castro falsely told investigators that the people who committed violence at the Capitol were Antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters, not Trump supporters.
Fucked around, found out.