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Nah, you’re operating under a myth here
https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-sentences-second-new-york-lawyer-molotov-cocktail-case-2023-01-27/
One year sentence, for attempting to burn police officers to death.
J6 trespassing grannies get decades long sentences by comparison
There is no argument here, the double standards are incredibly obvious
Nah, but we had liberal mayors ordering police to stand down. Kind of hard to make arrests when you’re not even allowed to do so, crazy how that works
Oh, who was raising funds for their bail by the way?
Just to point out the police car they molotoved was empty as your own link states in the first paragraph. Still bad but not murdering police officers bad.
Did they know it was empty?
Presumably, it had already been vandalized with the windows smashed out as mentioned in the linked article. Seems unlikely from the facts described they wouldn't know it was empty.
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Can you link me any non-violent Jan 6er, granny or otherwise, who got one decade or more?
Edit: I'm asking this in good faith, and I will preemptively agree that anyone getting 10 years for walking around the capital on Jan6 is completely tucked and a travesty.
Jason Barnett was a 60 year old who got 4 years for being photographed with his feet on Nancy pelosis desk
Thomas J Patterson was a cop in off duty who got 7 years for basically the same thing as Barnett, being photographed in the capitol, ie trespassing
Possibly excessive. Definitely not a "decade". Not sure why you think exaggeration helps your point. I was genuinely sitting here thinking "Holy shit, they gave J6ers 10 years for trespassing? That's insane. Wtf." Now I'm left thinking "Don't believe the **** J6 supporters say."
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