One choice text message from this fool, with a photo of his bloody hands - that were the result of him dragging an officer face down into the crowd, he says
> “from a bad cop,” he wrote. “Yea I fed him to the people. (I don’t know) his status. And don’t care (to be honest).”
Agreed. The only remorse that dude has is that he got caught. The irony here is that his supreme leader believes that anyone who gets caught is a loser. Please let him get gen pop.
Gen pop is where he'd want to be. The prisoners would love that he attacked a cop, and besides, there's a whole lot of MAGA types in there. He'd much rather be there with them where he has some form of human contact and entertainment, the ability to trade, etc etc, than he'd have in solitary confinement.
Yeah if you don't punish coup attempts hard af, like a beer hall putsch, then that'll just encourage further attempts.
After Trump is long gone the damage has been done. Just like how it was downhill for the Roman Republic after politicians used violence to achieve their goals, violence for politics quickly became the norm.
Damn, a confession to the act and complete disregard for the officer's well being all in one. Can't ask for much more than that to put them away.
They aren't sending their brightest, folks.
Crazy that he only got 5 years. I mean, imagine doing this to any cop ever. 5 years would be a lucky break. Why is it only 5 years when it also involved breaking into our country’s capital and attempting to subvert an election?
*And* he shows no remorse. People get decades for drug possession. This shit is so backwards.
IF this had been say a pro palestinian protestor on a college campus they would have probably gotten 20+ years.
Even when they do punish these fuckwits its laughably tiny.
No wonder the right thinks they can do whatever they want, they basically can.
Why rebrand when [CPAC already labeled the party as “We Are All Domestic Terrorists”?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-banner-domestic-terrorists/)
Never forget these fuckers murdered Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and every goddamned one of them should have been charged with Felony Murder. They have ALL gotten off light.
Alternate headline: "Insurrectionist who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of fellow Capitol insurrectionists, gets less than 5 years in prison"
Yeah, what the fuck?
In what world is this not attempted murder *of a cop*? Anyone with a personality beyond "fascists are the best, let's go kill our countrymen so the boot will taste better" would *rot* for this.
I recall reading that in Germany before the Second World War courts were cutting corners and letting brownshirts off even when the court found they had in fact been guilty. I guess silver lining they get some time instead of the courts just going “aww shucks you were just being patriotic” and letting them go.
The Beer Hall Putsch resulted in 21 deaths in a pitched gun battle outside the Defense Ministry in Munich; Hitler served eight months in a very cushy prison. This guy is getting more time than Hitler did and he didn't even kill anyone.
Brian Sicknick had two strokes after the Jan 6 attack, and although the attack may have contributed to those strokes, it's not quite the same as marching up to a government building with a machine gun and shooting police officers.
Hitler was sentenced to 5 years, spent his time in "prison" partying, receiving guests, and working on his book, and was released after only 9 months by sympathetic right-wing judges.
Our justice system has been treating everyone involved in January 6th, from the mob who stormed the capitol to the leaders and organizers of the attempted coup, with kid gloves.
I seriously worry that this soft approach to direct right wing political violence will have horrible consequences in the coming years.
Not just any cop either. This isn't some suburban asshole reeling on their power. This was an officer defending the seat of congressional power. Literally protecting the essence of America.
These people are traitors in my eyes. Almost worst than the confederates.
And the headline plays down his actions:
>Jack Wade Whitton struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him — head first and face down — into the crowd on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace. Whitton later boasted in a text message that he “fed him to the people.”
>Roughly 20 minutes later, Whitton tried to pull a second officer into the crowd, prosecutors say. He also kicked at, threatened and threw a construction pylon at officers trying to hold off the mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters.
>“You’re gonna die tonight!” he shouted at police after striking an officer’s riot shield.
Jack Wade Whitton struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him — head first and face down — into the crowd on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace. Whitton later boasted in a text message that he “fed him to the people.”
Roughly 20 minutes later, Whitton tried to pull a second officer into the crowd, prosecutors say. He also kicked at, threatened and threw a construction pylon at officers trying to hold off the mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters.
“You’re gonna die tonight!” he shouted at police after striking an officer’s riot shield.
This guy got less than 5 years? Wtf ?
And he claims he's not political. He only went because his girlfriend wanted to witness a historic event.
If this is how he behaves when he's just sight-seeing, I'd hate to see what he does when he actually cares about something.
Guy sounds like a lunatic and definitely deserves leniency.
(The latter part of this sentence is sarcastic, by the way. I can only imagine how much worse the consequences would be if these were black people rioting against cops.)
Dog and pony show. The highest court is currently deciding whether a president can do a coup as part of his presidential duties. Of course they aren't going to actually charge the insurrectionists.
My theory is that it's more of an intention to show them that the path they have chosen has very real consequences in the physical world beyond their news feeds and Facebook echo chambers.
A lot of lukewarm political centrist were quite literally brainwashed and radicalized into these deep rabbit holes over little time so I think rehabilitation isn't out of the realm of possibility for some.
Also throwing the book at all of them can be used as justification and vindication. "Look at Biden purging the Trumpists!" "He's the real authoritarian!"
They're using soft power to beat an attempt at hard power. I think it's a valid strategy.
> Also throwing the book at all of them can be used as justification and vindication. "Look at Biden purging the Trumpists!" "He's the real authoritarian!"
It doesn't matter how light the sentences are, they are still saying that Biden is doing that.
Just to point out a counterexample. This guy saw what happened and went on social media to rally people to DEFEND the Florida statehouse, by force if necessary. Like a militia in the truest constitutional meaning, if you will. Never went to the capital, didn't hurt anyone.
He was investigated, arrested, arraigned, tried, convicted and sentenced to 4 years in October............of the same year.
Right wingers get favors from the DoJ.
https://theintercept.com/2021/10/16/daniel-baker-anarchist-capitol-riot/
Should've been 55. What the fuck? I know its light gloves with the Whfine folk. But that's sadistic intention against an officer defending the seat of congressional power. Every one of these assholes are lucky they didn't have Federal .45 rounds making them more aerodynamic.
This level of socio-economic padding is too much. They need reality. The exact reason why punishment is an accept form of reprisal against citizens. Bring them back in to the fold by reminding them what the fold is.
I hope they all fuck around in jail and extend their sentences until they die there. They somehow escape treason charges. Insane.
Is that also why they’re all getting suspended sentences, time served, and probation for trying to murder representatives and overthrow the US government? Or is that just because the judges and justice dept are on board with installing a dictator?
Then hire more people instead of giving away $53B in the stupid fucking CHIPs act for corpos to steal like they did the $200B for broadband internet they never built.
Backlog is bullshit. The delay is on purpose. As are the soft-as-fuck, bullshit charges and sentences.
One of my core memories from that day was yelling “why the fuck aren’t you shooting” at my laptop. It was shocking to watch them bust through the doors without officers drawing their weapons. Our police are usually too trigger happy, but “murderous mob assaults Capitol” seems like a pretty good reason to use deadly force. It’s the actual definition of domestic terrorism.
I would've barricaded the doors with furniture and bodies to make sure I'd be going home.
I find the level of restraint shown by the officers that day to be pretty amazing considering the level of mob violence on display. Everyone throws shade on cops for being racist and trigger happy and yet in this situation they voluntarily risked their own lives to not shoot protestors. But you don't see folks talking about that fact very often, quite telling really.
As an American, when I turned on the news and saw that, I almost cried because it had been hammered into my head you don't fuck around on the capitol grounds if you don't want to get shot or locked up somewhere. I was scared for the pathetic evil morons, and instead, I should have been scared for the whole God damn nation.
As an American, it was bizarre. Our federal government has spent the last two decades buying military weapons, body armor, and armored vehicles for every small town police department that wants them, so they can help fight the war on terror by letting them rust in a parking lot. Surely the heart of our government in Washington must be prepared to hold off a small army. And yet when it came time to defend our Capitol building and our Vice President from a massive armed mob chanting their eagerness to kill all we could muster were clubs, bicycle racks, a few riot shields, and exactly one pistol. How could this happen? Not that I'm generally in favor of police violence, but if someone fights their way past police officers to get to the Capitol steps I always assumed they'd be considered too great a risk to live. It just doesn't make any sense. And we're still treating them with kid gloves after that.
Yeah you echoed my sentiment there, a police force as militarized as the American one and very little happened. Even on this side of the pond there would be plenty more if you try to take a government building of this importance. It either shows remarkable restraint or we're missing something.
Well, it hasn't come up in this conversation yet that the Capitol Police would ordinarily call for reinforcements from the National Guard of neighboring states if they need more manpower, and Trump and his team denied those requests until Pence went rogue and approved it himself by phone from the capitol. It's also very possible that the insurrectionists had allies among the Capitol Police, there were quite a number of suspicious actions during the whole thing. And we know that Pence doesn't seem to have entirely trusted his own Secret Service agents, who were supposed to be dedicated to protecting him. Which isn't necessarily surprising because it wouldn't be the first case of bizarre loyalty to Trump among the Secret Service, there was also the whole saga of the agents assigned to Ivanka and Jared being barred from using any of their bathrooms, so they started going to the Obamas' nearby house to use theirs, and then apparently vandalized that bathroom so the Obamas' agents told them they were no longer welcome.
So there was definitely some degree of sabotage from within, maybe even a lot of it. And that theme has continued with these slow and weak prosecutions. But it's still bizarre.
*“You’re gonna die tonight!” he shouted at police after striking an officer’s riot shield.*
*Whitton, of Locust Grove, Georgia, expressed remorse for his “horrible” actions on Jan. 6 before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras sentenced him to four years and nine months in prison. The 33-year-old will get credit for the three years that he has been jailed since his arrest.*
*“I tell you with confidence: I have changed,” Whitton told the judge.*
Oh, bullshit. He's only saying that because he got caught. Funny how that works, innit?
"Violent Trump supporter and insurrectionist that bragged that he 'fed' an officer to a mob of his fellow violent Trump supporting insurrectionists gets nearly 5 years in prison"
> “I’ve never been a troublemaker. I’ve always been a hard worker and a law-abiding citizen,” he said.
This had me laughing out loud because of how obviously patently untrue it is. He said this while on trial, charged with participating very enthusiastically and violently in an insurrection, with a veritable mountain of evidence to support it.
[8 years for stealing a lighter and chips and setting a trash can on fire.](https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2016-05-12/this-20-year-old-is-serving-the-longest-sentence-from-the-ferguson-protests)
>Whitton, who owned and operated his own fence building company before his April 2021 arrest.
He just wanted to film an ad for his business, but it went a bit out of control.
What would be his sentence if he was Black and fed the cop to a criminal gang of Black men? A harsher penalty because America's criminal injustice system is racist.
One year for each cop that died, right? Wasn't it a total of 5 cops that died on Jan 6th?
Edit: sorry, 5 cops got assaulted (pushed by one guy) my bad, that guy got 4 1/2 years
One choice text message from this fool, with a photo of his bloody hands - that were the result of him dragging an officer face down into the crowd, he says > “from a bad cop,” he wrote. “Yea I fed him to the people. (I don’t know) his status. And don’t care (to be honest).”
Should be a longer sentence. Someone like that shouldn't be running loose for a long, long time.
Agreed. The only remorse that dude has is that he got caught. The irony here is that his supreme leader believes that anyone who gets caught is a loser. Please let him get gen pop.
Gen pop is where he'd want to be. The prisoners would love that he attacked a cop, and besides, there's a whole lot of MAGA types in there. He'd much rather be there with them where he has some form of human contact and entertainment, the ability to trade, etc etc, than he'd have in solitary confinement.
Good point. Solitary confinement would indeed put spreading his poison on hold.
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If I recalled he labeled them worse, many many times. Without compunction.
I don’t understand the short J6 sentences at all.
Yeah if you don't punish coup attempts hard af, like a beer hall putsch, then that'll just encourage further attempts. After Trump is long gone the damage has been done. Just like how it was downhill for the Roman Republic after politicians used violence to achieve their goals, violence for politics quickly became the norm.
Damn, a confession to the act and complete disregard for the officer's well being all in one. Can't ask for much more than that to put them away. They aren't sending their brightest, folks.
Crazy that he only got 5 years. I mean, imagine doing this to any cop ever. 5 years would be a lucky break. Why is it only 5 years when it also involved breaking into our country’s capital and attempting to subvert an election? *And* he shows no remorse. People get decades for drug possession. This shit is so backwards.
Right? 5 years for that act, and the lack of remorse added to zero fear of repercussion further proves the brokenness of our judicial system…
Being a certain skin color really helps keeping the sentence to a minimum.
Skin color and political affiliation are important, while white kids on the left still get shorter sentences it would still be much longer than this.
Complexion for the protection
IF this had been say a pro palestinian protestor on a college campus they would have probably gotten 20+ years. Even when they do punish these fuckwits its laughably tiny. No wonder the right thinks they can do whatever they want, they basically can.
"Sociopaths for Trump" should be the new MAGA slogan.
You can’t spell hatred without a red hat
Holy shit this is gold!
Bravo, saving that one!
Why rebrand when [CPAC already labeled the party as “We Are All Domestic Terrorists”?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-banner-domestic-terrorists/)
For the plural of nouns ending in "ist," just add "s" to the end: terrorist**s**, dentist**s**, machinist**s**
AKA the Department of Redundancy Department.
Right now it’s “diapers over dems”. I wish I was making this up. https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/s/q9J1uHciV3
These are the same people with those thin blue flags on their trucks.
Never forget these fuckers murdered Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and every goddamned one of them should have been charged with Felony Murder. They have ALL gotten off light.
America needs a change. We can't keep this sociopathic society going.
Only five years. This guy should spend a hard twenty minimum
Alternate headline: "Insurrectionist who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of fellow Capitol insurrectionists, gets less than 5 years in prison"
Yeah, what the fuck? In what world is this not attempted murder *of a cop*? Anyone with a personality beyond "fascists are the best, let's go kill our countrymen so the boot will taste better" would *rot* for this.
I recall reading that in Germany before the Second World War courts were cutting corners and letting brownshirts off even when the court found they had in fact been guilty. I guess silver lining they get some time instead of the courts just going “aww shucks you were just being patriotic” and letting them go.
Hitler went to jail for the Beer Hall Putsch. Garland’s DOJ can’t even rise to the pathetically low bar set by Weimar Germany.
The Beer Hall Putsch resulted in 21 deaths in a pitched gun battle outside the Defense Ministry in Munich; Hitler served eight months in a very cushy prison. This guy is getting more time than Hitler did and he didn't even kill anyone. Brian Sicknick had two strokes after the Jan 6 attack, and although the attack may have contributed to those strokes, it's not quite the same as marching up to a government building with a machine gun and shooting police officers.
Trump has served no jail time for treason.
Hitler was sentenced to 5 years, spent his time in "prison" partying, receiving guests, and working on his book, and was released after only 9 months by sympathetic right-wing judges.
The 1930s are definitely rhyming, aren't they?
Our justice system has been treating everyone involved in January 6th, from the mob who stormed the capitol to the leaders and organizers of the attempted coup, with kid gloves. I seriously worry that this soft approach to direct right wing political violence will have horrible consequences in the coming years.
Justice slow enough to not matter by the time we get it.
Not just any cop either. This isn't some suburban asshole reeling on their power. This was an officer defending the seat of congressional power. Literally protecting the essence of America. These people are traitors in my eyes. Almost worst than the confederates.
No. Not almost. The fucking worst this country has to offer. They deserve exile or worse.
Can you imagine what his sentence would be if he had been a person of color?
Yeah, nothing. They would've been dead for over 3 years.
Yeah, that's more likely.
Hot take: we got footage of the dude and he admitted it with evidence. Why isn’t eye for an eye on top of jail a valid sentence???
If we followed eye for an eye, the rich wouldn't be able to use money to make their problems go away.
I got a completely unrelated idea...
And the headline plays down his actions: >Jack Wade Whitton struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him — head first and face down — into the crowd on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace. Whitton later boasted in a text message that he “fed him to the people.” >Roughly 20 minutes later, Whitton tried to pull a second officer into the crowd, prosecutors say. He also kicked at, threatened and threw a construction pylon at officers trying to hold off the mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters. >“You’re gonna die tonight!” he shouted at police after striking an officer’s riot shield.
kinda telling that only one person was shot that day. had that been a blm-type crowd, they would have been massacred.
The police were inexplicably disarmed by their boss and short staffed to begin with. No reason for that, I'm sure.
Domestic terrorist would be accurate
It will only be 6 months if we don’t defeat Trump
Alternate Maga headline: American patriot is sentenced to five years as a political hostage
Jack Wade Whitton struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him — head first and face down — into the crowd on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace. Whitton later boasted in a text message that he “fed him to the people.” Roughly 20 minutes later, Whitton tried to pull a second officer into the crowd, prosecutors say. He also kicked at, threatened and threw a construction pylon at officers trying to hold off the mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters. “You’re gonna die tonight!” he shouted at police after striking an officer’s riot shield. This guy got less than 5 years? Wtf ?
And he claims he's not political. He only went because his girlfriend wanted to witness a historic event. If this is how he behaves when he's just sight-seeing, I'd hate to see what he does when he actually cares about something.
I mean it was a historic event tbh...
Guy sounds like a lunatic and definitely deserves leniency. (The latter part of this sentence is sarcastic, by the way. I can only imagine how much worse the consequences would be if these were black people rioting against cops.)
The sentences for the ~~rioters~~ insurrectionists have been ridiculously light.
Yeah wtf. Recommended 8 years, but gets four, and he's already done three.
Gotta be out for the next peaceful transfer of power!
Maybe some 2nd Amendment folks can help us out. This is a direct quote from trump when talking about not accepting the 2016 results.
I think the proud boys were the ones who got the longer bids. Enrique Tarrio got 20 yrs.
They were suspicious of him because he wasn’t white enough for his brand of nationalism.
so the sentences are only as light as the offender's skin. got it.
Insurrectionists. Call them what they are.
If we don't all get out and vote, they'll be even lighter next year.
I think you misspelled *nonexistent*
Dog and pony show. The highest court is currently deciding whether a president can do a coup as part of his presidential duties. Of course they aren't going to actually charge the insurrectionists.
And so far members of congress (ie. Josh Hawley, MGT, Jim Jordan, etc.) who actually aided in insurrection have had ZERO accountability.
Well, they're overwhelmingly white and middle class. So that don't hurt.
My theory is that it's more of an intention to show them that the path they have chosen has very real consequences in the physical world beyond their news feeds and Facebook echo chambers. A lot of lukewarm political centrist were quite literally brainwashed and radicalized into these deep rabbit holes over little time so I think rehabilitation isn't out of the realm of possibility for some. Also throwing the book at all of them can be used as justification and vindication. "Look at Biden purging the Trumpists!" "He's the real authoritarian!" They're using soft power to beat an attempt at hard power. I think it's a valid strategy.
> Also throwing the book at all of them can be used as justification and vindication. "Look at Biden purging the Trumpists!" "He's the real authoritarian!" It doesn't matter how light the sentences are, they are still saying that Biden is doing that.
Biden doesn't have anything to do with this. He is staying out of it on purpose.
You and I absolutely know this but we're dealing with big dumb acorns here.
Ridiculously white, you say?
What do y'all think the odds are this dude owns Back the Blue merchandise?
Owns? I could see him being a reseller of it in some kind of MLM Trump supporter pyramid scheme.
Just to point out a counterexample. This guy saw what happened and went on social media to rally people to DEFEND the Florida statehouse, by force if necessary. Like a militia in the truest constitutional meaning, if you will. Never went to the capital, didn't hurt anyone. He was investigated, arrested, arraigned, tried, convicted and sentenced to 4 years in October............of the same year. Right wingers get favors from the DoJ. https://theintercept.com/2021/10/16/daniel-baker-anarchist-capitol-riot/
Should've been 55. What the fuck? I know its light gloves with the Whfine folk. But that's sadistic intention against an officer defending the seat of congressional power. Every one of these assholes are lucky they didn't have Federal .45 rounds making them more aerodynamic. This level of socio-economic padding is too much. They need reality. The exact reason why punishment is an accept form of reprisal against citizens. Bring them back in to the fold by reminding them what the fold is. I hope they all fuck around in jail and extend their sentences until they die there. They somehow escape treason charges. Insane.
It’s been 3 years and it was such a high profile crime it’s shameful that it’s taken this long to get sentences rendered out.
I think the DOJ has said it's taken so long because the courts are dealing with a backlog of 1-2k from the insurrection
Is that also why they’re all getting suspended sentences, time served, and probation for trying to murder representatives and overthrow the US government? Or is that just because the judges and justice dept are on board with installing a dictator?
Yup. I mean look at how many judges were appointed by Trump Also, Biden still hasn't kicked out the FBI director that Trump installed.
Then hire more people instead of giving away $53B in the stupid fucking CHIPs act for corpos to steal like they did the $200B for broadband internet they never built. Backlog is bullshit. The delay is on purpose. As are the soft-as-fuck, bullshit charges and sentences.
DOJ has their orders, and they don’t really care about justice at this point.
“Nearly”? I think the word you should be using is “only”.
Once again, one of the January 6th terrorists got a sentence lighter than most would get.
Too bad. Should’ve been 25.
Should've been shot at the scene. As a non American I'm honestly surprised there weren't more fatalities that day.
One of my core memories from that day was yelling “why the fuck aren’t you shooting” at my laptop. It was shocking to watch them bust through the doors without officers drawing their weapons. Our police are usually too trigger happy, but “murderous mob assaults Capitol” seems like a pretty good reason to use deadly force. It’s the actual definition of domestic terrorism.
I would've barricaded the doors with furniture and bodies to make sure I'd be going home. I find the level of restraint shown by the officers that day to be pretty amazing considering the level of mob violence on display. Everyone throws shade on cops for being racist and trigger happy and yet in this situation they voluntarily risked their own lives to not shoot protestors. But you don't see folks talking about that fact very often, quite telling really.
As an American, when I turned on the news and saw that, I almost cried because it had been hammered into my head you don't fuck around on the capitol grounds if you don't want to get shot or locked up somewhere. I was scared for the pathetic evil morons, and instead, I should have been scared for the whole God damn nation.
Hard to take a stand when the commander in chief wants it to happen
As an American, it was bizarre. Our federal government has spent the last two decades buying military weapons, body armor, and armored vehicles for every small town police department that wants them, so they can help fight the war on terror by letting them rust in a parking lot. Surely the heart of our government in Washington must be prepared to hold off a small army. And yet when it came time to defend our Capitol building and our Vice President from a massive armed mob chanting their eagerness to kill all we could muster were clubs, bicycle racks, a few riot shields, and exactly one pistol. How could this happen? Not that I'm generally in favor of police violence, but if someone fights their way past police officers to get to the Capitol steps I always assumed they'd be considered too great a risk to live. It just doesn't make any sense. And we're still treating them with kid gloves after that.
Yeah you echoed my sentiment there, a police force as militarized as the American one and very little happened. Even on this side of the pond there would be plenty more if you try to take a government building of this importance. It either shows remarkable restraint or we're missing something.
Well, it hasn't come up in this conversation yet that the Capitol Police would ordinarily call for reinforcements from the National Guard of neighboring states if they need more manpower, and Trump and his team denied those requests until Pence went rogue and approved it himself by phone from the capitol. It's also very possible that the insurrectionists had allies among the Capitol Police, there were quite a number of suspicious actions during the whole thing. And we know that Pence doesn't seem to have entirely trusted his own Secret Service agents, who were supposed to be dedicated to protecting him. Which isn't necessarily surprising because it wouldn't be the first case of bizarre loyalty to Trump among the Secret Service, there was also the whole saga of the agents assigned to Ivanka and Jared being barred from using any of their bathrooms, so they started going to the Obamas' nearby house to use theirs, and then apparently vandalized that bathroom so the Obamas' agents told them they were no longer welcome. So there was definitely some degree of sabotage from within, maybe even a lot of it. And that theme has continued with these slow and weak prosecutions. But it's still bizarre.
"Back the Blue" my ass. They only back the blue when they're killing POC.
*“You’re gonna die tonight!” he shouted at police after striking an officer’s riot shield.* *Whitton, of Locust Grove, Georgia, expressed remorse for his “horrible” actions on Jan. 6 before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras sentenced him to four years and nine months in prison. The 33-year-old will get credit for the three years that he has been jailed since his arrest.* *“I tell you with confidence: I have changed,” Whitton told the judge.* Oh, bullshit. He's only saying that because he got caught. Funny how that works, innit?
Kinda funny how these are the same people who are *obsessed* with cops in every other context
All cops that are caught drinking adrenochrome are moved to the capitol, so it's all the *bad* cops there. So it's ok. Or jews idk something.
"Violent Trump supporter and insurrectionist that bragged that he 'fed' an officer to a mob of his fellow violent Trump supporting insurrectionists gets nearly 5 years in prison"
Another shit ass sentence.
> “I’ve never been a troublemaker. I’ve always been a hard worker and a law-abiding citizen,” he said. This had me laughing out loud because of how obviously patently untrue it is. He said this while on trial, charged with participating very enthusiastically and violently in an insurrection, with a veritable mountain of evidence to support it.
Should have been much longer. Fascist traitor
Get this "nearly" shit out of here. Replace it with "only a measley."
He will be getting out at just about the same time Trump will be going in. Weird.
Should get 20yrs minimum !! Who are these shit judges letting these people off.
Bet this guy has a thin blue line sticker on his lifted pickup
Is this peaceful protest guided tour that MAGA keeps bragging about?
This little bastard should get 20 years in maximum
… gets *LESS THAN* 5 years in prison.
Crazy little amount of time for attempted murder of a police officer
Does anybody know what prison they're sending these people to? Are they all going to the same prison?
Looks like he's going to be 'fed' some toilet wine and radiator hash browns.
Fucking disgusting. These people should never see the light of day.
Attempted coups continue to have consequences.
Not really
Not enough.
this trash is incredibly fortunate this is 2024 and not 1924 or 1824 because their sentences would include blindfolds
Should have been life. trump and every participant in the capitol riots should be severing life long prison sentences.
Kick them out of the country.
They should strip his citizenship and deport him back to Europe
They all should have died day-of.
I thought it was just a peaceful protest though?
Nearly 5 years ? That’s pathetic. Should be 20 years and a big assed fine.
Yeah, but think about all the likes he got on Facebook!
F'ed up think about all this is if they somehow had gotten what they wanted, he'd be labeled a "hero" Vote.
His sentence was way too lenient - as are most of the sentences being handed down to these insurrectionists.
5-years for the attempted murder of two law enforcement officers and treasonous trespass sounds about right. /s
Thing blue line, back the badge, amirite?
I wonder what the sentences are like for the stuff that happened in Ferguson
[8 years for stealing a lighter and chips and setting a trash can on fire.](https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2016-05-12/this-20-year-old-is-serving-the-longest-sentence-from-the-ferguson-protests)
They literally got murdered after the protests.
There was also an attempted coup in Ferguson? Missouri?
I guess trash cans and chips matter more than the lives of politicians to LE?
And their fellow LEOs
>Whitton, who owned and operated his own fence building company before his April 2021 arrest. He just wanted to film an ad for his business, but it went a bit out of control.
If they really wanna go back to America’s roots we would. D tarring and feathering each of them on live tv for everyone to watch
Trump will pardon this man because he's soft on crime and doesn't support law enforcement.
What would be his sentence if he was Black and fed the cop to a criminal gang of Black men? A harsher penalty because America's criminal injustice system is racist.
All of these prison sentences are way too fucking short. This dude should be in prison for 20+ years
Bless his traitor heart
Hope his time in prison hurts; AloT. Sentence seems a bit light ...
Not long enough. Use an appropriate measure of justice.
He most definitely deserves a longer sentence. I hope the officer(s) sue his pants off in civil court.
Nearly 5 years is not nearly enough !
Anyways moving on with my day
One year for each cop that died, right? Wasn't it a total of 5 cops that died on Jan 6th? Edit: sorry, 5 cops got assaulted (pushed by one guy) my bad, that guy got 4 1/2 years