Capitol rioter gets prison as feds reach 100 sentencings

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

ASeattle man who punched two police officers during last year's riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to six months imprisonment on Thursday, as the Justice Department reached a milestone in one of the largest federal investigations in American history.

Mark Leffingwell, a 52-year-old military veteran who was wounded in Iraq, is at least the 100th person to be sentenced after pleading guilty to a Capitol riot-related charge, according to an Associated Press review of court records.

The judge who sentenced Leffingwell pushed back on a recent Republican National Committee resolution that accused the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack of leading a “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson also lamented that mainstream news outlets are still amplifying the lie that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate and stolen from former President Donald Trump.

"And, worse, it has become heresy for a member of the former president’s party to say otherwise,” the judge said. “It needs to be crystal clear that it is not patriotism, it is not standing up for America, it is not legitimate political discourse and it is not justified to descend on the nation’s capital at the direction of a disappointed candidate and disrupt the electoral process.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/capitol-rioter-gets-prison-as-feds-reach-100-sentencings/ar-AATHZBH

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[Emile]

1. Was he charged with a felony?

[Botany]

2. The Judge Berman Jackson said this when sentencing, "it is not legitimate political discourse"

[Cha]

4. RNC & US m$$$$$m is NOT Fooling

Judge Amy Berman Jackson!

[Botany]

6. If you can stomach watch the whole clip wear the anchor person with her $400 hair cut, style, and

... color has to get in a dig @ President Biden @ the end about his low poll #s.

[Cha]

8. TY but I can't.. I stopped waatching those

zombie media ****** in November 2002.

I hate the GD IDIOTS.

PJB WON in Spite of their SHIT.

[Botany]

9. Smart

n/t

[Cha]

22. TY.. I had DU.

[LakeArenal]

5. Meaning no firearms and no voting, right?

No hanging out with other felons.

That would be some good stuff!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Cha]

3. TY & Judge Amy Berman Jackson!

The judge who sentenced Leffingwell pushed back on a recent Republican National Committee resolution that accused the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack of leading a “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson also lamented that mainstream news outlets are still amplifying the lie that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate and stolen from former President Donald Trump.

"And, worse, it has become heresy for a member of the former president’s party to say otherwise,” the judge said. “It needs to be crystal clear that it is not patriotism, it is not standing up for America, it is not legitimate political discourse and it is not justified to descend on the nation’s capital at the direction of a disappointed candidate and disrupt the electoral process.”

RNC is Not Fooling Judge Jackson and neither is the US m$$$$$m

[ancianita]

7. He was an early arrestee; arrested Jan 7 2021, indicted by Jan 11, and convicted by Oct 26.

MSN says he's the hundredth, but sedition tracker says only 87 have been sentenced. Maybe they've got some updates to do. Six months in prison puts him in the company of about five or six others, one, I think that Qanon shaman guy who got 41 months.

Dear leader

[DENVERPOPS]

10. Wow, a whole SIX months..............

Go up and punch any two cops in your city and see if you get off with a mere six months........???????????

[Rebl2]

12. Exactly!

Seems like a slap on the wrist to me😡

[DanieRains]

14. Probably Got Credit For Military Service

I would imagine.

[pnwmom]

18. The judge mentioned something about that. n/t

[DENVERPOPS]

19. Then, he should be getting a longer sentence

He knew better especially because he was a vet........

[Rebl2]

21. Exactly

[Tumbulu]

16. To me too!

This is not a sentence that will deter anyone!

I’m with you- furious!

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. If you were Black, you'd be shot dead before you punched the second cop.

[lagomorph777]

23. If you survive, it'd be 15 years at least.

[Wuddles440]

11. Oh, boo-hoo!!!

The judge decides to depart from the sentencing guidelines and ignore the recommendations of the DOJ prosecutors because a longer period of incarceration could adversely impact his veteran's benefits??!! Well this POS should have considered such consequences before traveling to D.C. to participate in an attempted coup and assaulting two police officers! If he had done such as a member of BLM or "antifa", he'd receive at least 6 years if not more. Such leniency only emboldens those plotting the next coup.

[Rebl2]

13. So true

Only encourages this behavior in future coup attempts.

[Tumbulu]

15. It does!

OMG!!!!!

Only 6 months?

I cannot believe what nothing sentences these insurrectionists are getting!

[rockfordfile]

17. 6 months? These pos will be right-back at doing the same thing.

52 year old?

[riversedge]

24. The rioter punched 2 police officers and ONLY got 6 months. whow. whow

[GregariousGroundhog]

25. Federal sentencing guidelines called for 24-30 months, and the judge only gave him six?

This rioter got off light.

[dalton99a]

26. His sentence is a joke and a perversion

[The Grand Illuminist]

27. You think that is bad.....

Just wait til 2025 when the vast majority will get statute off scot free.

[ck4829]

28. Kick