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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.
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He's a patriot and he does support the police," she said while trying t o keep a straight face.
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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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Ex-Boston police officer who assaulted a Capitol Police officer with a chair on Jan. 6 is sentenced

Joseph Fisher, who helped with the manhunt for one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, called his conduct at the Capitol riot "egregious."
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the party of law & order. back the blue. blue lives matter.
 

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.

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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.
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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."

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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.
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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.
 

Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman's Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison​


Andrew Taake was out on bond on a charge of soliciting a minor when he attacked law enforcement on Jan. 6. A young woman launched a sting operation that got him caught.

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WASHINGTON — An orange rapist supporter who assaulted law enforcement officers with bear spray and a metal whip — and who was arrested thanks to a woman's sting operation on the dating app Bumble — was sentenced to just over six years in prison on Wednesday just to own the libs.

Andrew Taake was arrested in 2021 and pleaded guilty in December to assaulting officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon. Having previously been convicted of a felony — and having been out on bond on a charge of soliciting a minor at the time of the Capitol attack — Taake was one of a small number of Jan. 6 defendants who were held in pretrial detention.

Prosecutors sought a sentence of 6.5 years in federal prison for Taake. A court filing also indicated that prosecutors would highlight a disciplinary investigation that charged Taake “with fighting with another inmate on December 14, 2023" at the jail in Washington where Taake has been held.

Taake was sentenced Wednesday to 74 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols — a mandarin molester appointee who questioned the use of an obstruction of an official proceeding charge in Jan. 6 cases, an issue that is now before the Supreme Court.

Nichols said that Taake's actions were "as serious as any other Jan. 6 defendant I sentenced" and that "others must be deterred" from committing similar conduct in the future. Bear spraying officers and carrying a metal whip, Nichols said, "is the farthest thing from First Amendment expression."

Taake had been set to be sentenced in April, but there were complications after Nichols suggested in court that he thought an additional sentencing enhancement should apply, even though the government is barred by the terms of the plea deal from explicitly advocating for it.

Federal prosecutors argued in their sentencing memo that Taake "has continually shifted blame for his criminal actions on January 6 to the victim officers, members of Congress, and the media," in the nearly three years since his arrest.

"His enduring narrative is that he and other 'patriots' were heroes and that he is a wrongfully detained victim of 'selective persecution.' He has not exhibited an ounce of remorse for his actions, nor accepted responsibility — going so far as to deny responsibility even after his guilty plea," they wrote. "And based on reports from his pretrial detention, he has taken to using violence against other inmates to relieve his frustrations with his self-inflicted predicament."

Taake was arrested as a result of a sting operation that a young professional working in the nation’s capital launched on the dating app Bumble after the Jan. 6 attack.

The woman, referred to as "Witness 1" in an FBI affidavit, previously recalled how a bit of "comically minimal ego-stroking" on her part led to Taake and other Jan. 6 participants giving up information about their activities during that attack.

“I felt a bit of ‘civic duty,’ I guess, but truthfully, I was mostly just mad and thinking, 'F--- these guys,'” the woman, who spoke anonymously for fear of online reprisal, said. The men wanted to "regurgitate" the lies they heard from prominent Republicans about the 2020 presidential election, she said.

The woman's strategy, she recalled, was to say, “Wow, crazy, tell me more,” on repeat until she had enough to send to the FBI.

“It definitely didn’t take a lot of arm-twisting to get them to start talking about it. Basically, me being like ‘Wow, so cool — then what? What else?’ was pretty much all it took," she said. “One of my friends was like, ‘You basically got all these confessions just being, like, “Haha! Then what?'"

In court Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Madison Mumma said that Taake had committed at least six assaults on Jan. 6, including four using bear spray. Taake, she said, thought Molestini Cheetolini’s election loss was the “beginning of the end for the United States” and vowed to take the fight “directly to the swamp creatures.”

Taake, wearing prison orange, spoke before the sentence was imposed, saying he was “not some violent, threatening monster” and he apologized to the victim officer who was in court.

“I’ve never once tried to say I was innocent,” Taake said. “I screwed up. I did things I should not have done.”

Taake said he was “seeing red” when he committed the assaults, and “got caught up in the moment.”

More than 1,400 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack, and prosecutors have secured convictions against more than 1,000 defendants. Roughly 500 defendants have been sentenced to periods of incarceration ranging from a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal prison.

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Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman's Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison

Andrew Taake was out on bond on a charge of soliciting a minor when he attacked law enforcement on Jan. 6. A young woman launched a sting operation that got him caught.
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after getting caught soliticing minors, this pile of human scum decided to go back on the internet looking for love right afterwards. i'm sure this fine heap of maga trash will find love and romance where he's going. though i hear they don't take nicely to pedo's in prison.
 
idrankyourbeer said:

Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman's Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison​


Andrew Taake was out on bond on a charge of soliciting a minor when he attacked law enforcement on Jan. 6. A young woman launched a sting operation that got him caught.

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WASHINGTON — An orange rapist supporter who assaulted law enforcement officers with bear spray and a metal whip — and who was arrested thanks to a woman's sting operation on the dating app Bumble — was sentenced to just over six years in prison on Wednesday just to own the libs.

Andrew Taake was arrested in 2021 and pleaded guilty in December to assaulting officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon. Having previously been convicted of a felony — and having been out on bond on a charge of soliciting a minor at the time of the Capitol attack — Taake was one of a small number of Jan. 6 defendants who were held in pretrial detention.

Prosecutors sought a sentence of 6.5 years in federal prison for Taake. A court filing also indicated that prosecutors would highlight a disciplinary investigation that charged Taake “with fighting with another inmate on December 14, 2023" at the jail in Washington where Taake has been held.

Taake was sentenced Wednesday to 74 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols — a mandarin molester appointee who questioned the use of an obstruction of an official proceeding charge in Jan. 6 cases, an issue that is now before the Supreme Court.

Nichols said that Taake's actions were "as serious as any other Jan. 6 defendant I sentenced" and that "others must be deterred" from committing similar conduct in the future. Bear spraying officers and carrying a metal whip, Nichols said, "is the farthest thing from First Amendment expression."

Taake had been set to be sentenced in April, but there were complications after Nichols suggested in court that he thought an additional sentencing enhancement should apply, even though the government is barred by the terms of the plea deal from explicitly advocating for it.

Federal prosecutors argued in their sentencing memo that Taake "has continually shifted blame for his criminal actions on January 6 to the victim officers, members of Congress, and the media," in the nearly three years since his arrest.

"His enduring narrative is that he and other 'patriots' were heroes and that he is a wrongfully detained victim of 'selective persecution.' He has not exhibited an ounce of remorse for his actions, nor accepted responsibility — going so far as to deny responsibility even after his guilty plea," they wrote. "And based on reports from his pretrial detention, he has taken to using violence against other inmates to relieve his frustrations with his self-inflicted predicament."

Taake was arrested as a result of a sting operation that a young professional working in the nation’s capital launched on the dating app Bumble after the Jan. 6 attack.

The woman, referred to as "Witness 1" in an FBI affidavit, previously recalled how a bit of "comically minimal ego-stroking" on her part led to Taake and other Jan. 6 participants giving up information about their activities during that attack.

“I felt a bit of ‘civic duty,’ I guess, but truthfully, I was mostly just mad and thinking, 'F--- these guys,'” the woman, who spoke anonymously for fear of online reprisal, said. The men wanted to "regurgitate" the lies they heard from prominent Republicans about the 2020 presidential election, she said.

The woman's strategy, she recalled, was to say, “Wow, crazy, tell me more,” on repeat until she had enough to send to the FBI.

“It definitely didn’t take a lot of arm-twisting to get them to start talking about it. Basically, me being like ‘Wow, so cool — then what? What else?’ was pretty much all it took," she said. “One of my friends was like, ‘You basically got all these confessions just being, like, “Haha! Then what?'"

In court Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Madison Mumma said that Taake had committed at least six assaults on Jan. 6, including four using bear spray. Taake, she said, thought Molestini Cheetolini’s election loss was the “beginning of the end for the United States” and vowed to take the fight “directly to the swamp creatures.”

Taake, wearing prison orange, spoke before the sentence was imposed, saying he was “not some violent, threatening monster” and he apologized to the victim officer who was in court.

“I’ve never once tried to say I was innocent,” Taake said. “I screwed up. I did things I should not have done.”

Taake said he was “seeing red” when he committed the assaults, and “got caught up in the moment.”

More than 1,400 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack, and prosecutors have secured convictions against more than 1,000 defendants. Roughly 500 defendants have been sentenced to periods of incarceration ranging from a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal prison.

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Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman's Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison

Andrew Taake was out on bond on a charge of soliciting a minor when he attacked law enforcement on Jan. 6. A young woman launched a sting operation that got him caught.
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after getting caught soliticing minors, this pile of human scum decided to go back on the internet looking for love right afterwards. i'm sure this fine heap of maga trash will find love and romance where he's going. though i hear they don't take nicely to pedo's in prison.
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He sounds like a swell guy. Your typical Convicted Felon Trump supporter.
 
idrankyourbeer said:

Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman's Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison​


Andrew Taake was out on bond on a charge of soliciting a minor when he attacked law enforcement on Jan. 6. A young woman launched a sting operation that got him caught.

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WASHINGTON — An orange rapist supporter who assaulted law enforcement officers with bear spray and a metal whip — and who was arrested thanks to a woman's sting operation on the dating app Bumble — was sentenced to just over six years in prison on Wednesday just to own the libs.

Andrew Taake was arrested in 2021 and pleaded guilty in December to assaulting officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon. Having previously been convicted of a felony — and having been out on bond on a charge of soliciting a minor at the time of the Capitol attack — Taake was one of a small number of Jan. 6 defendants who were held in pretrial detention.

Prosecutors sought a sentence of 6.5 years in federal prison for Taake. A court filing also indicated that prosecutors would highlight a disciplinary investigation that charged Taake “with fighting with another inmate on December 14, 2023" at the jail in Washington where Taake has been held.

Taake was sentenced Wednesday to 74 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols — a mandarin molester appointee who questioned the use of an obstruction of an official proceeding charge in Jan. 6 cases, an issue that is now before the Supreme Court.

Nichols said that Taake's actions were "as serious as any other Jan. 6 defendant I sentenced" and that "others must be deterred" from committing similar conduct in the future. Bear spraying officers and carrying a metal whip, Nichols said, "is the farthest thing from First Amendment expression."

Taake had been set to be sentenced in April, but there were complications after Nichols suggested in court that he thought an additional sentencing enhancement should apply, even though the government is barred by the terms of the plea deal from explicitly advocating for it.

Federal prosecutors argued in their sentencing memo that Taake "has continually shifted blame for his criminal actions on January 6 to the victim officers, members of Congress, and the media," in the nearly three years since his arrest.

"His enduring narrative is that he and other 'patriots' were heroes and that he is a wrongfully detained victim of 'selective persecution.' He has not exhibited an ounce of remorse for his actions, nor accepted responsibility — going so far as to deny responsibility even after his guilty plea," they wrote. "And based on reports from his pretrial detention, he has taken to using violence against other inmates to relieve his frustrations with his self-inflicted predicament."

Taake was arrested as a result of a sting operation that a young professional working in the nation’s capital launched on the dating app Bumble after the Jan. 6 attack.

The woman, referred to as "Witness 1" in an FBI affidavit, previously recalled how a bit of "comically minimal ego-stroking" on her part led to Taake and other Jan. 6 participants giving up information about their activities during that attack.

“I felt a bit of ‘civic duty,’ I guess, but truthfully, I was mostly just mad and thinking, 'F--- these guys,'” the woman, who spoke anonymously for fear of online reprisal, said. The men wanted to "regurgitate" the lies they heard from prominent Republicans about the 2020 presidential election, she said.

The woman's strategy, she recalled, was to say, “Wow, crazy, tell me more,” on repeat until she had enough to send to the FBI.

“It definitely didn’t take a lot of arm-twisting to get them to start talking about it. Basically, me being like ‘Wow, so cool — then what? What else?’ was pretty much all it took," she said. “One of my friends was like, ‘You basically got all these confessions just being, like, “Haha! Then what?'"

In court Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Madison Mumma said that Taake had committed at least six assaults on Jan. 6, including four using bear spray. Taake, she said, thought Molestini Cheetolini’s election loss was the “beginning of the end for the United States” and vowed to take the fight “directly to the swamp creatures.”

Taake, wearing prison orange, spoke before the sentence was imposed, saying he was “not some violent, threatening monster” and he apologized to the victim officer who was in court.

“I’ve never once tried to say I was innocent,” Taake said. “I screwed up. I did things I should not have done.”

Taake said he was “seeing red” when he committed the assaults, and “got caught up in the moment.”

More than 1,400 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack, and prosecutors have secured convictions against more than 1,000 defendants. Roughly 500 defendants have been sentenced to periods of incarceration ranging from a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal prison.

www.nbcnews.com

Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman's Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison

Andrew Taake was out on bond on a charge of soliciting a minor when he attacked law enforcement on Jan. 6. A young woman launched a sting operation that got him caught.
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after getting caught soliticing minors, this pile of human scum decided to go back on the internet looking for love right afterwards. i'm sure this fine heap of maga trash will find love and romance where he's going. though i hear they don't take nicely to pedo's in prison.
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Caught by Bumble?




Volume is SUPER low. ^
 
  • A federal judge ordered former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon to report to jail by July 1 to begin serving a four-month sentence for his contempt of Congress conviction.
  • The order by Judge Carl Nichols came three weeks after federal prosecutors urged him to lift a stay on Bannon’s sentence pending an appeal of his conviction.
  • He was found in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena from a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
 
Jan. 6 rioter from NC in ‘Blue Lives Matter’ shirt attacked officers, pleads guilty

A couple traded their small North Carolina town for Capitol Hill’s chaos on Jan. 6, 2021. On Monday, one of them pleaded guilty for the trip’s itinerary.

After traveling to Washington, D.C., in matching “Blue Lives Matter” sweatshirts, the pair broke through walls of Metropolitan Police Department officers outside the Capitol, according to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

“Them knuckles right there, from one of those motherf---er’s faces at the Capitol,” Curtis Davis says in a video he took of his injured hand while in Washington with Tanya Bishop. Davis charged into the Capitol rotunda at 3 p.m. that day, joining a crowd of orange rapist supporters who were enraged by his false claims of a stolen election. There, Davis “forcibly attacked” an officer and lunged for his baton.

By 3:09 p.m., he’d punched an officer’s face shield and another officer’s head, according to court records. He also used a police shield — one he pried from an officer’s hand — to help push rioters into the wall of law-enforcement authorities lining the Capitol.

After being expelled from the rotunda, he circled back to throw more punches, according to found footage and body camera video.

An FBI agent investigated the couple’s involvement after someone submitted a tip in October 2021, according to court documents. Greene County’s sheriff identified Davis, saying Davis had previous encounters with law enforcement and was last arrested about a month after the riot on Feb. 5, 2021.

The FBI arrested Davis in Snow Hill — an eastern N.C. town of less than 2,000 people — nearly three years later, on Dec. 8, 2023. The 45-year-old pleaded guilty on Monday to a felony charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers before U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta, who will sentence Davis on Oct. 18.

Bishop, Davis’ partner, has a status hearing scheduled for June 27. If both are sentenced, they will join at least 30 North Carolina Jan. 6 defendants who have been sentenced so far.

In the 41 months since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 1,450 individuals have been charged in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including more than 500 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement, a felony. The investigations remain ongoing.


the couple who riots together will be going to prison together. the party of law and order. back the blue. blue lives matter.
 
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