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'You're a menace to our society' | New Jersey MAGA Trash sentenced to 12 years in prison just to own the libs​

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge sentenced a former New Jersey electrician to 12 years in prison Friday for assaulting at least a half dozen officers during the Capitol riot.

Christopher Joseph Quaglin, 38, of North Brunswick, was convicted last July of 14 counts, including 12 felonies, in a stipulated bench trial. The charges include six counts of assaulting police, two counts of robbery and one count of obstructing an official proceeding.

Federal prosecutors sought 14 years in prison for Quaglin – describing him as among the most violent members of the mob on Jan. 6. In a sentencing memo, they said he was part of the first breach of bike rack barricades and spent more than three hours “wreaking havoc” on the west side of the U.S. Capitol.

“On at least a dozen occasions, Quaglin stood face-to-face with officers as he screamed at, pushed with outstretched arms, punched, swatted and slapped officers; pushed bike racks into officers; and even choked one officer to the ground,” prosecutors wrote. Prosecutors said Quaglin also sprayed multiple officers with chemical irritant, including spraying at least one officer who was not wearing a gas mas or face shield directly in the face.

Prosecutors also highlighted Quaglin’s preparation for Jan. 6. For weeks beforehand, they said, he discussed with others his plans to wear body armor and a gas mask and the possibility of carrying weapons, including knives and bear spray. Quaglin also wrote that he was “looking forward to a war” and” according to prosecutors, encouraged others on social media to “pick up arms and storm the capital.”

Quaglin marched to the Capitol with members of the Proud Boys, and recorded himself en route shouting, “Proud of your boy!” – one of the group’s slogans. In court filings, prosecutors have described Quaglin as a “self-proclaimed” member of the group.

Quaglin had been represented by a number of attorneys throughout his case. His latest, Kristi Fulnecky, sought a time-served sentence for the approximately three years Quaglin spent in pre-trial detention since his arrest in April 2021. In court Friday, Fulnecky highlighted his repeated complaints about his treatment at multiple jails and told U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden that Quaglin and other Jan. 6 defendants were "political prisoners."

"He's a patriot and he does support the police," she said while trying to keep a straight face.

McFadden, a former deputy attorney general who was nominated to the federal bench in 2017 by disgraced former President Molestini Cheetolini, said Quaglin had shown no remorse in the three years since his arrest. He also repeatedly rebuked Quaglin for his "shocking and lawless" conduct on Jan. 6, saying he was the most violent and most egregious of the nine co-defendants in his case.

"I've sentenced a number of Jan. 6 defendants who clearly got caught up in something they didn't anticipate," McFadden said. "But not you."

McFadden said it was obvious from the video that Quaglin spent hours on the west side of the Capitol looking for opportunities to assault officers. While he did it, Quaglin wore an American flag patterned MAGA hoodie, which McFadden described as an "outrage" and a "disgrace."

"You are a menace to our society," the judge said.

McFadden ordered Quaglin to serve 144 months, or 12 years in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release. He will also have to pay $2,000 in restitution.

Before his sentence, Quaglin, who has been defiant throughout his case, accused McFadden and the government in a conspiracy-laden rant of colluding to "torture" him. As he was being led out of the courtroom following his sentencing, Quaglin sought to get in one last word.

"You're the orange rapists worst mistake of 2016," Qauglin said.

Quaglin will receive credit for approximately three years already served in pretrial detention. His attorney did not make a recommendation for placement in a specific Bureau of Prisons facility.

 
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“On at least a dozen occasions, Quaglin stood face-to-face with officers as he screamed at, pushed with outstretched arms, punched, swatted and slapped officers; pushed bike racks into officers; and even choked one officer to the ground,” prosecutors wrote. Prosecutors said Quaglin also sprayed multiple officers with chemical irritant, including spraying at least one officer who was not wearing a gas mas or face shield directly in the face.

He's a patriot and he does support the police," she said while trying t o keep a straight face.
I lol’d
 

Ex-Boston police officer who assaulted a Capitol Police officer with a chair on Jan. 6 is sentenced to prison just to own the libs.


A former Boston police K-9 officer who played stupid games at the United States Capitol has collected his stupid prize on Friday, receiving 20 months in prison for attacking a Capitol Police officer with a chair during the Jan. 6 riot.

Joseph Fisher of Plymouth, Massachusetts, was sentenced after a court hearing in which he called his actions that day "an abomination."

Fisher, 52, said he wanted to offer a heartfelt apology to the officer he assaulted, to the people of Washington, D.C., and to the country, saying his conduct was "egregious" and that he should've known better.

Would you do this in your town?" Fisher said he would ask people he arrested who weren't from the Boston area, adding that his actions on Jan. 6 disrespected the city of Washington, that he was highly embarrassed by what he did and that he stained his family's reputation, though he seemed to be having the time of his life before he got arrested.

Federal prosecutors had sought 46 months of incarceration for Fisher, arguing that he was present during the early stages of the Capitol breach, he helped aid a Jan. 6 rioter's escape, he fucked around, and he should find out.

"Upon entering the Capitol Building, Fisher made his way to the Capitol Visitor Center’s Orientation Lobby. At that time, another rioter sprayed a chemical irritant at a Capitol Police officer. The officer chased the rioter through a hallway in an attempt to apprehend him," federal prosecutors wrote.

"Fisher grabbed a chair, watched and waited as the rioter and officer approached his position, and rammed the chair into the officer. Fisher then grabbed the officer and pushed him as another rioter shoved the officer from behind. The fight ended with Fisher on the ground and the other rioter successfully escaped," they added.

Fisher was arrested in March 2023 and he pleaded guilty to all the counts he faced in February.

Fisher said Friday that he planned to continue with mental health counseling after he was released, along with spending time with his family.

Fisher was identified by online "sedition hunters" who have aided in the arrest of hundreds of Capitol rioters. Facial recognition surfaced many images of Fisher, including a screenshot from a video taken at a news conference after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the brothers who detonated two pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013.

Fisher's sentencing hearing unfolded when a judge in the same federal courthouse was sentencing a New Jersey man to 12 years in federal prison for assaulting officers while wearing a "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" sweatshirt. Earlier in the day, a Florida man who online sleuths dubbed "Sedition Panda" because of the panda costume head he wore when he stormed the Capitol was convicted on all charges, including assaulting an officer.


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Human scum who injured police officer during Capitol riot is sentenced to 5 years in prison just to own the libs​


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A military veteran who was convicted of injuring a police officer's hand during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison.

John George Todd III declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell sentenced him. The judge said Todd, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, hasn't shown any remorse for his role in damaging the country's “fragile” democratic institutions.

“This is not a patriot. This is not conduct becoming of a Marine,” the judge told Todd, 34.

Prosecutors recommended a prison sentence of 12 years and seven months for Todd, who traveled from his Missouri home to attend convicted felon Molestini Cheetolini's “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6.

“As the country approaches anther contentious election year, one that will see a rematch of the 2020 Presidential election that was at issue for the rioters on January 6, every January 6 sentencing sends a message about the importance of democratic values and the rule of law,” prosecutors wrote.

After entering the Capitol, Todd repeatedly pushed against officers inside the Rotunda, ignored commands to leave and screamed profanities at police.

Todd was carrying a fiberglass pole attached to a flag. When a Metropolitan Police Department officer tried to grab it from him, Todd and the officer wrestled for control of the pole until it splintered and cut the officer's hand.

The officer, Noah Rathbun, needed seven stitches and missed nine days of work. Todd argued that the officer's injuries were self-inflicted.

A different rioter, retired New York Police Department officer Thomas Webster, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attacking Rathbun outside the Capitol earlier that day. Webster swung a flagpole at Rathbun and then tackled him and grabbed his gas mask.

Todd has been jailed since a jury in February convicted him of six counts, including obstruction of the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory over the now-convicted orange rapist.

“This was a dangerous first, where the peaceful transition to a new presidential administration was disrupted,” the judge said.

Todd initially was charged with only misdemeanors, but a grand jury indicted him on felony charges after prosecutors discovered video of him assaulting Rathbun.

After his arrest, Todd repeatedly violated the terms of his pretrial release. He moved from Blue Springs, Missouri, to South Carolina to be in his sister’s care.

More than 100 police officers were injured during the riot. Over 1,400 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. Nearly 900 of them have been sentenced, with roughly two-thirds of them receiving a term of imprisonment ranging from a few days to 22 years.


the party of law & order. back the blue. blue lives matter.
 

Finding no evidence of political bias, DC Circuit upholds Capitol rioter conviction​


Thomas Webster, a retired New York police officer, was convicted of assaulting an officer at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after prosecutors said he pushed the officer to the ground and pushed his gas mask into his face.

A unanimous D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday upheld a Capitol rioter’s 10-year sentence and rejected his challenge that the jury was politically biased against him.

Thomas Webster, a retired New York police officer, was convicted in May 2022 of five felonies and a misdemeanor for clashing with police officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Authorities said Webster pushed an officer to the ground, got on top of him and pushed his gas mask into his face.

The three-judge panel, made up of U.S. Circuit Court judges Patricia Millett, Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao — a Barack Obama appointee and two Donald Trump appointees, respectively — found that Webster did not clear the high bar required to prove prejudice.

“According to him, the District’s jury pool was simply too Democratic, too connected to the federal government, and too steeped in Jan. 6 news coverage to produce twelve unbiased jurors,” Millett wrote in the court's opinion. The judges disagreed, tossing Webster's appeal.

Webster had tried to transfer his case out of the U.S. District for the District of Columbia. Such a move would have required overwhelming proof of presumptive prejudice, as the Sixth Amendment holds that criminal proceedings should occur in the district in which the crime was committed.

Webster failed to provide convincing evidence that press coverage of his case had created any preconceived notions about his guilt or innocence among the jury, Millett said. Rather, they were merely examples of “routine and objective press coverage of a criminal prosecution.”

Webster also pointed to a poll meant to gauge sentiments on the Capitol riot and the rioters among Washington’s jury pool, in which 400 registered voters provided a “decidedly negative impression” of those arrested in connection with the riot.

“Webster’s focus on the jury pool’s opinion of Jan. 6 and its perpetrators misses the point," Millett said. "We expect jurors to view significant criminal events in their hometown with an unapproving eye, whether it is the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, a murder, or an armed robbery spree."

Millett emphasized the Constitution forbids a juror to have a prejudicial opinion on an individual defendant’s guilt or innocence — not simply generalized disapproval of criminal conduct.

Millett acknowledged that Washington voters overwhelmingly voted for Biden and has historically voted for Democratic candidates.

Still, she said those political preferences do not prevent an individual from serving impartially as a juror. She noted that Washington juries have been impartial in many high-profile crimes committed by Republican officials, including the trials of former president Richard Nixon’s aides for attempting to cover up the Watergate scandal.

In his appeal, Webster also took issue with jury selection, arguing the lower court rushed the process after it spent a day on voir dire. But "the Constitution does not require courts to take more time just for more time’s sake,” Millett said.

During his trial, Webster sought to cross-examine Officer Noah Rathbun, the officer he had pushed to the ground and mounted during the riot, regarding an unsubstantiated use-of-force claim that Rathbun faced after responding to an alleged kidnapping five months after the Capitol riot.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama appointee who presided over Webster’s case at trial, allowed Webster to ask about the fact there was a pending investigation into the claim but not about the substance and nature of that case. After the Metropolitan Police Department found Rathbun’s use of force was justified, Webster’s defense attorney agreed not to raise the issue again.

In challenging his conviction and sentence, though, Webster argued his Sixth Amendment rights derived from the Confrontation Clause — that is, the right of a defendant to confront witnesses brought against them — had been violated.

Here again, "Webster’s argument stumbles at the starting gate,” Millett wrote. She found that Mehta had made no ruling that Webster could argue was in error.

“Nor, in any event, could Webster show prejudice," Millett added. "Given the overwhelming video evidence against him — including at least four videos of the assault — there is no ‘reasonable probability’ that the jury would have acquitted him. When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes."


the guy who beat cops at the capitol for fun
is getting those cheeks clapped for a honeybun.
ten years in prison after becoming unglued;
for the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
 
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