Judge rejects comparison between Jan. 6 riot and George Floyd unrest

Politico ^ | Nov 5 | By JOSH GERSTEIN and KYLE CHENEY

[RandFan]

A judge playing a central role overseeing the criminal cases stemming from the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol building has forcefully rejected claims from many alleged rioters that they’re being treated more harshly than people who broke the law during the widespread protests that arose last year in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

Speaking during a sentencing hearing for Capitol riot defendant Glenn Croy, Chief Judge Beryl Howell disputed the notion that participants charged in last year’s unrest were treated leniently. She also insisted that the motivations of those involved rendered the Jan. 6 attack a far more grave event.

“For people to say people who participated in the protests of the summer of 2020 got no jail time, that’s not my experience in my court,” said Howell, who added that she’d sentenced a man to more than a year for breaking a bank window and walking inside.

“He took nothing. I gave him 16 months,” said Howell, an appointee of President Barack Obama. She added: “He wasn’t disrupting a constitutionally mandated process. ... My experience was felony prosecutions in this court and lots of jail time.”

“The goal of a lot of protests in 2020 was to hold police accountable and politicians accountable for police brutality — and murder, in George Floyd’s case — and to improve our political system. What happened on Jan 6 is in a totally different category from that protest. It was to stop the government from functioning at all to stop the democratic process and it worked,” Howell said.

“They’re not comparable.”

[nicollo]

14th Amendment here,
14th Amendment there,
14th Amendment
wherever the Judge bothers to care

[Kazan]

So, unarmed protesters that were allowed instead the Capitol Building were worse than rioters than burned down police precincts, set police cars on fire, assaulted police officers and, in Seattle, held six city blocks hostage for several days?

[mcenedo]

So, unarmed protesters that were allowed instead the Capitol Building were worse than rioters than burned down police precincts, set police cars on fire, assaulted police officers and, in Seattle, held six city blocks hostage for several days?

My thoughts exactly!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

It’s the Leftist thinking way in DC, Jim. And with a tinge of racism thrown in for shits and grins!

[SunkenCiv]

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[Robert A Cook PE]

I do believe she just earned herself a “prejudicial misconduct” mistrial, did she not?

SHE has just declared publicly that SHE HAS ALREADY judged ALL of the ones who appear in front of her court guilty!

[SunkenCiv]

Sounds good, but regardless, she's unfit for the bench.