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A federal judge on Wednesday said he would order corrections officials to provide the Capitol rioter known as the "Qanon Shaman" with organic food, hours after his lawyers said that he had gone nine days without eating. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said during a hastily convened hearing Wednesday that the Bureau of Prisons should abide by Jacob Chansley's religious dietary restrictions.
Chansley, who also goes by Jake Angeli, practices shamanism and believes "that non-organic food, which contains unnatural chemicals, would act as an 'object intrusion' onto his body and cause serious illness if he were to eat it," according to an emergency motion filed by his lawyer Wednesday morning.
A Bureau of Prisons representative told Lamberth at Wednesday's hearing that Chansley's dietary request had been denied because corrections officials could not find any evidence that an all-organic diet is one of the tenets of shamanism.
Albert Watkins, Chansley's attorney, had asked in his emergency motion that the court either order jail officials to provide him with organic food or otherwise release him entirely because of the danger he was in without sustenance. Watkins said at Wednesday's hearing that he would drop his request that his client be released in light of the judge's order. Lamberth said that a written order would be forthcoming on Wednesday.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/537229-judge-to-grant-request-from-q-shaman-for-organic-diet-in-jail
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Chow down, Shaman-boy!
Cirque du So-What
(25,927 posts)I dare you.
Geechie
(864 posts)for a 100% organic shit sandwich
(wouldnt be gluten free, though)
Goonch
(3,607 posts)louis-t
(23,292 posts)Asshole.
XanaDUer2
(10,643 posts)the Right would laugh at, right?
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Deuxcents
(16,185 posts)A menu of organic food for insurgents? What is next? Bad back n need Tempurpedic mattress?
marble falls
(57,075 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Paladin
(28,252 posts)theneworiginal
(302 posts)And how about a better cable package and a remote for everyone?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,321 posts)If we're going to warehouse people, we should keep the warehouses civilized. That includes protecting the people we put in there from each other and accommodating reasonable requests.
liberal_mama
(1,495 posts)problem with them giving him his organic food, but what did he think was going to happen when he was jailed?