'We're done with that lifestyle': Jessica Watkins, Ohio woman charged in Capitol riot, renounces...

[DonViejo]

'We're done with that lifestyle': Jessica Watkins, Ohio woman charged in Capitol riot, renounces Oath Keepers

Marc Kovac
The Columbus Dispatch

An Ohio woman ordered held in jail pending trial on charges in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol told a federal judge late Friday that she has disbanded her armed group in Ohio and plans to cancel her membership in the Oath Keepers.

Jessica Watkins, 38, of Champaign County, told U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta in the District of Columbus that she was appalled and humiliated by the events of Jan. 6.

"As soon as I’m out, whether acquittal or release, I’m canceling my Oath Keepers membership," she said. "I have no desire to continue with people who say things like that."

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"We’re done with that lifestyle," Watkins said. "We’ve got a struggling small business. I did it out of the love of my country, but I think it’s time to let all of that go … I don’t intend to read social media for amusement or political purposes. I think it’s just time for me to focus on my business."

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. 'lifestyle?'

[lapfog_1]

2. I'll remember this

next time I rob a bank...

"But judge, I renounce the lifestyle of assaulting the police while I try to rob the banks... sorry about the cop that was killed, so... can you let me go this time?"

[BeyondGeography]

3. What the judge said

Watkins' pronouncements didn’t sway Mehta, however, as the judge declined to release her from federal custody pending a trial.

"I've thought about this quite hard, Miss Watkins," the judge said. "And I think, at the end of the day, I just can't get there. I don't think putting you on home detention would ensure the safety of the community ... You are an active participant, organizer, leader of others in engaging in this kind of conduct. The material found at your home certainly suggests further potential for organizing and further potential for violence."

[PatSeg]

4. Good for that judge

Mehta said, "There is a continued risk, it seems to me, that once you are released, that you will reaffiliate yourself with these groups and these people." Obviously, there is no reason to believe that Watkins changed overnight and releasing her could be a great risk to the public.

[dalton99a]

5. She renounced her lifestyle of criminal acts. She even apologized. Let her go

[Turbineguy]

6. Yes.

Go back to unprotected sex with strangers.

[rickyhall]

7. I never really thought of sedition as a lifestyle. Unless you're a pirate, I guess.

And why did it take an arrest for you to discover this, Ms. Watkins?

[Midnight Writer]

8. I reckon her lifestyle has already changed radically, regardless of what she wants.

Starting with prison food.

[Demobrat]

9. I quit drinking, judge.

Said the drunk driver who killed 4 people.

[WhiteTara]

10. I believe her new lifestyle includes orange

as in prison wear.

[keithbvadu2]

11. What war crimes or insurrection? I'm a peacenic now.

What war crimes or insurrection? I'm a peacenic now.

I renounce the damage and killing that I was part of.

You can just let me go home now.

[OnDoutside]

12. Plans to cancel her membership in the Oath Keepers. That's nice...

Is she intending to pray for world peace too? Oh by the way, Judge, don't send me to jail....

Yeah sure, honeym

[samnsara]

13. i love my country too but i didnt storm the capital

....at 38 shes gonna spend the best part of her looks behind bars...

[pecosbob]

14. Cool...good luck with the lifestyle change

Your parole officer says you have to come in and pee in a bottle as soon as you get out of the halfway house.

[soothsayer]

15. "About that oath I said I'd keep..."

[Volaris]

20. Threadwinner lol

[soothsayer]

21. Yay!

[MurrayDelph]

16. Daffy Duck: I will never draw another mustache on a painting

I'm onto beards now.

[Withywindle]

17. What happened to "Where we go one, we go all"?

Sounds like her "principles" never did mean much.

[brewens]

18. Boy Howdy! You have no idea how done you are. She's real sorry the Q-Coup didn't work and she

got caught. Fine with me. I'm all for her being sorry for several years.

[jpak]

19. Lock her up

Yup

[Grammy23]

22. Seems to me she had her

Come to Jesus moment just a little bit too late.