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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRioter 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
I wonder just what the percentage is of insurrectionists who had a previous criminal record.
Midnight Writer
Mar 2021
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LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)1. Hypocrites gotta hypocrite
Midnight Writer
(21,745 posts)2. I wonder just what the percentage is of insurrectionists who had a previous criminal record.
They strike me as the kind of people who just cannot accept rules.
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)3. Laws are for thee,.. but not for me,... said Ponder.
UpInArms
(51,280 posts)4. A "law" decider
Only the laws he wants are real
louis-t
(23,292 posts)5. I hope he gives himself a stroke in prison.
"I was robbed, I tell ya!"
Oh, and fuck his 'feelings'.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)6. Why is he not already in prison?
malaise
(268,930 posts)7. A gang of thieves, criminals, misfits and racists
led by the insurrectionist in chief - lock them up