This issue has a hodge podge of insurrectionists who were boastful, braggarts, liars, the “Oh so sorry!”, and just plain stupid.
Yes, I know. Those are standard features for all of the Jan 6th insurrectionists, but like snowflakes, each culprit is unique in his/her own way.
#TheWincer was sorry after getting a face full of mace. Can you help identify him?
Verden Nalley of Buford, GA was sentenced to two years probation as part of a plea deal with the government over his part of the Jan 6th insurrection.
Arrest and Later Plea Deal on December 2nd, 2021:
“You knew it was a restricted building? And you knew you didn’t have permission or lawful authority to enter that building?” U.S. District Court Judge Dabney L. Friedrich asked.
“Yes, ma’am,” Nalley said.
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When asked if he was pleading guilty because he was, in fact, guilty of the charge, Nalley said yes.
“I just want to put it behind me,” he said. “Yes, ma’am, I’m guilty of going into the Capitol.”…
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“The capital (sic) take over was planned I was there,” one of the posts unearthed by leftist activist group Atlanta Antifascists read. “We took it with no weapons and we will be back with guns in two weeks if that’s not fixed.”
Then the sentencing to two years of probation:
Verden Nalley, of Buford, told a federal judge that, "I made a huge mistake" that day and apologized in a brief statement.
"I'm sorry to my family, the court and you and the justice system," he said. "I made the mistake, just trying to move on."
The judge declined to give Nalley any prison time, feeling his role in the riots - in which the government did not present evidence of his assaulting any officers or damaging any property - was "less egregious" than other cases she had heard.
She said Nalley appeared to be on a "different path" and described his trespassing at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as an "unusual event in his otherwise law-abiding record."
Kevin Loftus, the Eau Claire man charged with entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riots, was sentenced Tuesday to three years’ probation.
Loftus pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol five months ago. Judge Dabney Friedrich also ordered Loftus to pay $500 in restitution.
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Loftus was arrested in Eau Claire less than a week after the riots. Federal agents traced him, in part, through his own social media posts. During the riots, Loftus posted that he was “One of 700 inside.” Later, after the New York Post published a set of photos from the riots, Loftus posted a link to the photos and identified himself as “second from the end, bottom row.”
I’m no legal expert, but there is a matter of whether or not a federal judge can do a “split sentence.” Judge Friedrich appears to believe she does not have the power to sentence someone to jail and probation for the crime that Loftus was charged with. But you might understand why the probation when you get a load of what Loftus said after Jan 6th.
Loftus spent less than five minutes in the building where he took several photos of himself. The next day, according to prosecutors, he bragged on Facebook that he was wanted by the FBI and wrote, “That is right folks some of us are in it to win it,” a statement that factored heavily in Cole’s sentencing argument.
Cole argued that despite a letter Loftus submitted to the court in January, in which Loftus apologized and recounted the negative effect his involvement in the Jan. 6 riot has had on his life, Loftus remains unrepentant.
In an online game chat in August, which was reported to the FBI, Loftus said he wasn’t worried about not being able to buy guns while he’s on probation because “i already bought my guns lol,” and bragged about the notoriety he received from his arrest. He wrote he was “standing up for all Americans,” and “you can’t pay for this kind of fame.”
“Locally im a hero,” he wrote. He also wrote, “i get to sue people when its over.”
It appears being that kind of hero did not impress his employer, who fired him from his machinist job. And poor old Loftus did not like the negative attention he was attracting after 13 months of dealing with is criminal conduct. Seems people were yelling at him in public. Loftus claims he is done with politics and “protests.”
Oh, by the way. Loftus is a Army veteran with six years of service.
Another in the “Oh So Sorry” category is Andrew Bennett of MD:
A federal judge sentenced a Maryland man who wore a “Proud Boys” hat while livestreaming himself storming the U.S. Capitol on Friday to three months of home confinement.
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Bennett was arrested in January after federal investigators say they received multiple tips alerting them to four videos Bennett had livestreamed on his Facebook page. The videos appeared to show him wearing a baseball hat with a Proud Boys motto on it while joining in chants of “break it down” during the Capitol riot. Court documents indicate Bennett may have been streaming nearby when Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed during an attempt to breach the Speaker’s Lobby.
Livestreamed on his Facebook page. Baseball hat with Proud Boys motto. Bennett checks all the right boxes for being a Jan 6th insurrectionist. So why the light sentence?
“I’d like to apologize to you and the country for entering the Capitol,” Bennett said. “I was not thinking clearly, pumped up on adrenaline as I was. What I did was wrong and I hold myself accountable for my actions.”
The Justice Department asked Boasberg to sentence Bennett to three months of home confinement. Though he ultimately did so, he first wanted to know why the department wasn’t asking for jail time like it had for two other misdemeanor defendants, Derek Jancart and Erik Rau, Boasberg had sentenced on Wednesday. The DOJ said Bennett had not expressed violent rhetoric and had actually tried to stop other rioters from attacking police.
The judge stated that he would have sent Bennett to jail, but he didn’t want to go above what the prosecutor had recommended in the plea agreement.
The FBI continues to seek the public’s assistance in identifying individuals who participated in unlawful conduct during the Capitol Insurrection. New images are added frequently...
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