He shot an unarmed woman at point blank range. No charges? None?
Open season on MAGA Supporters.
Capitol Police Told to ‘Stand Down’ Ahead of Jan. 6 Uprising
A new inspector general’s report further shredded already debunked leftist narratives about the Jan. 6 uprising at the US Capitol.
Capitol Police Inspector General Michael A. Bolton submitted the 104-page document titled “Review of the Events Surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Takeover of the U.S. Capitol” in advance of testimony before the House Administration Committee on Thursday.
Even the New York Times was forced to acknowledge after reviewing the report that the mostly peaceful protest was not spontaneously incited by President Donald Trump.
https://headlineusa.com/capitol-police-told-stand-down/
America may soon have a front-row seat to view the relationship between taxes and Black lives because of the newly filed tax felony charges brought against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Michael Chauvin.
He has been charged with murder in the death of George Floyd, which sparked a wave of national protests. The juxtaposition of the tax and criminal charges may be an acknowledgment of the sad reality that it will still be exceedingly difficult to convict a police officer of what amounts to a heinous crime caught on video — or that the prosecutors may be able to pursue a longer sentence for white-collar tax crimes.
Nearly two months after Floyd’s death, the scrutiny of Chauvin has entered new territory, seemingly much removed from the immediate assault.
On July 22 Washington County Attorney Pete Orput announced that Chauvin and his wife had been charged with nine tax-related felonies stemming from $21,853 in taxes owed to the state of Minnesota, which the prosecutor’s office said would be the focus of the tax case.
According to the county attorney’s office, “[Minnesota Department of] Revenue investigators initiated a review into the Chauvins in June 2020 for failure to timely file Minnesota individual income tax returns from 2016 to 2019, and fraudulently filing tax returns from 2014 to 2019.” Each of the nine tax felony charges carries a sentence of up to five years.
If convicted of second-degree murder under Minnesota Statute 609.19.2(1), Chauvin could face up to 40 years in prison. If convicted on all tax charges under Minnesota statutes 289A.63.2(a) and 289A.63.1(a), which are considered nonviolent white-collar crimes, Chauvin could face up to 45 years in prison.
However unlikely it is that he would receive such a sentence, in theory Chauvin could spend more time in jail for a relatively small tax fraud than for slowly choking to death a handcuffed Black man in front of a large crowd for the alleged use of a counterfeit $20 bill.
I am not a criminal attorney, but as a tax professional and former Treasury and IRS official who knows that a prison sentence is an available penalty for tax law violations, I think the tax-related charges are a separate insurance policy to ensure some sort of conviction against Chauvin.