that we still have a Republic & a functioning justice system.
If the info in the article is true, we have neither.
Completely broken on so many levels & no end in sight. This situation, if accurate, is the worst I've read about so far, especially the requested sentencing & the trial venue.
I surely hope that if DJT is re-elected, all of this nonsense gets overturned, but that very questionable to happen.
MM
More on J6 DefendantI don't know anything about the case the DOJ has against Ronald McAbee, I do know your link doesn't say what what he was charged with or found guilty of, it simply glosses over those things.
Is the info in this article this true? Did he actually punch police officers while wearing gloves with reinforced knuckles?
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...d-mcabee-convicted-felonies/71154771007/Ronald Colton McAbee, a former Williamson County deputy, was convicted Wednesday of five felonies for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Video footage previously reported on by The Tennessean showed McAbee, donning both a Three Percenters patch and a patch identifying him as a sheriff's deputy, punch and drag police officers into a mob of people in the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol building.
A federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found McAbee, 29, of Unionville, guilty of all charges. The charges are for assaulting, resisting or impeding officers; civil disorder; and three charges related to being in a restricted building with a deadly weapon: one for entering the building, one for participating in disorderly and disruptive conduct, and one for engaging in violence.
McAbee pleaded guilty to two other charges on Sept. 25: a separate felony charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding an officer, and a misdemeanor charge for an act of physical violence on Capitol grounds.
Prosecutors say just before 4:30 p.m. on the day of the riot, McAbee pulled a downed police officer into a crowd inside the Capitol. When another officer tried to assist the downed officer, McAbee "swung his arms and hands towards the officer’s head and torso," making contact while he was wearing gloves with reinforced knuckles.
McAbee then returned his attention to the downed officer and lifted him up by the torso and shoulders, causing the two to slide down a flight of stairs with McAbee falling on top of the officer. Once they reached the bottom of the stairs and were among another crowd, McAbee laid on top of the officer while other rioters assailed him for more than 20 seconds.
The officer was taken to a hospital and treated for a concussion, head laceration, elbow injury, and cuts and bruising.