I'm at work and can't address this properly but I can leave you with this.
Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters
But... did you even read that article? Here's a fairly representative snippet:
"Just this month, a man was sentenced to four years behind bars and ordered to pay what his attorney said is likely to exceed $1.5 million in restitution after pleading guilty to inciting a riot last spring in Champaign, Illinois.
"Shamar Betts, who was 19 at the time, posted a flyer on Facebook on May 31, 2020, that said “RIOT @ MarketPlace Mall” at 3 p.m. and instructed people to bring “friends & family, posters, bricks, bookbags etc.” He participated in the looting, went live on Facebook during the riot and bragged about starting it, authorities said. More than 70 stores were looted, and the riot caused $1.8 million in damage, prosecutors said.
"Betts’ lawyer, Elisabeth Pollock, said Betts was frustrated about police brutality across the U.S., had lost his job because of the coronavirus outbreak and never intended to hurt anyone. Prosecutors pushed for the maximum punishment of five years in prison and the maximum restitution amount for Betts, who had no criminal history, she said.
“They took into account not a single mitigating factor: nothing about how he grew up, nothing about about how the George Floyd protests had affected the community, nothing about how the pandemic had affected Shamar personally and the community. There was absolutely no quarter given to him at all,” his attorney said in an interview.
"In another case this month, an Illinois man was sentenced to nearly nine years behind bars for lighting a Minneapolis cellphone store on fire in June 2020. A Charleston, South Carolina, man who livestreamed himself looting a store downtown was sentenced to two years in prison.
"In the Capitol riot, dozens of defendants have been charged only with misdemeanors, and a standard plea deal has allowed many to plead guilty to a single count of demonstrating in the Capitol.
"An Indiana woman who admitted illegally entering the Capitol but didn’t participate in any violence or destruction avoided jail time, and two other misdemeanor defendants got one and two months of home confinement. Two other people who were locked up pretrial were released after pleading guilty to misdemeanors and serving the maximum six-month jail sentence.
"Only one defendant convicted of a felony has received his punishment so far. Paul Hodgkins, who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag, was ordered to serve eight months behind bars."
I mean, the examples examples for BLM are literally a man who organized a riot... as in ADVERTISED and successfully gathered people to riot, and then when that riot that he organized actually happened he participated in the looting, and live streamed it... an arsonist, and someone who (again) livestreamed as he looted someone else's business.
The people they compared them with from Jan 6 are people who entered the capitol and didn't participate in any violence and a man who went into the chamber carrying a Trump flag.
Do you honestly not see these comparisons as strikingly different? I say I want to see something comparable and you give me arson?
And that's not even getting into the whole paragraph on "mitigating factors" for the dude who organized a riot, balanced up against the report about the man entering the chamber including the fact that he was holding a Trump sign as though it's an aggravating factor... which it could only possibly be, from a legal perspective, if you believe that the politics of the rioter is supposed to be relevant in our perception of the crime and the sentencing that it should receive.
Which is exactly the point I was making. You whole article proves exactly the point I was making.
Edit: Still reading. Gawd.
Look at how this article ends:
"On the same day in May, Kelsey Donnel Jackson traveled to downtown Charleston, South Carolina, with a cousin to join a protest over Floyd’s killing. Hours later, as other protesters began flipping tables and taunting police officers, Jackson lighted a shirt on fire and tossed it onto the trunk of a vandalized police car.
"Jackson also vandalized businesses and public property, assaulted two people and streamed a video of himself on Facebook Live in which he held a handgun and made threatening statements about police, according to prosecutors.
"He was sentenced this summer to two years in prison after pleading guilty to maliciously damaging a police vehicle with fire."
"Jackson’s lawyer wrote in court documents before his sentencing that many people who stormed the Capitol “with the clear intent to disrupt a session of Congress and overturn a lawful election” were charged only with misdemeanor offenses.
"“We do not make reference to unrelated conduct in other jurisdictions in order to minimize (Jackson’s) conduct and culpability, but rather to point out that similar (and more egregious) conduct that was very obviously intended to intimidate law enforcement and interfere with government operations has been treated in a less heavy-handed manner elsewhere,” his attorney wrote."
You literally can't be serious. You just can't be.
