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Archae

(46,318 posts)
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 04:05 PM Mar 2021

Rioter yelling about voters being "robbed" is a bank robber himself...



Convicted Bank Robber Charged in Capitol Riot Case Says He 'Can't Take' Stolen Election

Mark Ponder, who admitted to robbing a bank and a taxi driver, told the FBI that he believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen and he participated in the riot because he couldn't stand for the American people being robbed.

Ponder is one of 400 people who have been charged in the Capitol riot and is accused of assaulting a federal officer with a pole. Emotions were running high that day, according to Ponder, and he was frustrated that former Attorney General William Barr and the Supreme Court didn't step in to investigate and hear the case of a stolen election.

"I really feel as though it was stolen," Ponder told the FBI, according to court filings. "You cannot stand if someone is going to take it from you. If you are going to get robbed. And you go to work every day, and you go outside and somebody robs you. That's something you can't take, right?"

A decade before Ponder qualified his behavior as being based on a belief that a person can't stand for being robbed, he was convicted on two separate robbery offenses. In 2008, he admitted to entering a PNC bank, demanding money and walking out with $2,469. A week later, he admitted to stealing a taxi after he forced the driver and a passenger out of the vehicle, according to court documents.

https://www.newsweek.com/convicted-bank-robber-charged-capitol-riot-case-says-he-cant-take-stolen-election-1577815
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Rioter yelling about voters being "robbed" is a bank robber himself... (Original Post) Archae Mar 2021 OP
Hypocrites gotta hypocrite LakeArenal Mar 2021 #1
I wonder just what the percentage is of insurrectionists who had a previous criminal record. Midnight Writer Mar 2021 #2
Laws are for thee,.. but not for me,... said Ponder. magicarpet Mar 2021 #3
A "law" decider UpInArms Mar 2021 #4
I hope he gives himself a stroke in prison. louis-t Mar 2021 #5
Why is he not already in prison? rickyhall Mar 2021 #6
A gang of thieves, criminals, misfits and racists malaise Mar 2021 #7

Midnight Writer

(21,745 posts)
2. I wonder just what the percentage is of insurrectionists who had a previous criminal record.
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 04:16 PM
Mar 2021

They strike me as the kind of people who just cannot accept rules.

louis-t

(23,292 posts)
5. I hope he gives himself a stroke in prison.
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 05:26 PM
Mar 2021

"I was robbed, I tell ya!"

Oh, and fuck his 'feelings'.

malaise

(268,930 posts)
7. A gang of thieves, criminals, misfits and racists
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 07:31 PM
Mar 2021

led by the insurrectionist in chief - lock them up

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