Posted on 12/14/2021 4:58:48 PM PST by Coronal
A Georgia man who drove cross-country with an assault rifle and threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to 28 months behind bars in an emotional hearing on Tuesday.
Cleveland Meredith Jr. pleaded guilty in September to sending threatening communications. Though he missed the January 6 rally because of car troubles, Meredith was one of the first people charged in relation to the Capitol riot after his mother reported concerning texts to the FBI on January 7. Agents found Meredith in a hotel one mile from the Capitol with thousands of rounds of ammunition, a handgun and an assault rifle stashed in his trailer.
“Let the record be crystal clear that it is not patriotism, it is not justified to descend on the Capitol at the behest of a candidate who lost an election and terrorize others,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson said, calling the riot the “definition of tyranny.”
She added, “Canceling the votes of others at the point of a gun is the antithesis of what this country stands for.”
He will get credit for the 11 months he has already spent behind bars.
Meredith is one of several Capitol riot defendants who hurled threats at lawmakers, but only the second to be sentenced to related charges.
Many of these defendants — including Meredith — believed in the QAnon conspiracy theory and false claims of election fraud that are still a driving force behind violent rhetoric, even towards the judges who are overseeing the hundreds of January 6 cases as they make their way through the justice system.
According to the plea agreement, Meredith texted a friend the day after the riot that he was thinking of attending an event with Pelosi and “putting a bullet in her noggin on Live TV.”
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How are they going to jail and feed the other 75 million who also believe the election was stolen?
“Judge Amy Berman Jackson”
A fascist always working to oppress Americans...
Apparently she doesn't know the definition of tyranny.
She can merely look in the mirror.
24months, and the Jan6 have been in political prison for 8 already? for PRADING???
He should have taken Tuco’s advice.
If not for a dead battery (or whatever) the riot may have indeed been turned into an armed insurrection.
one side was armed.
That same side shot a women in cold blood.
Maybe that “cop” would have thought twice had he known fire would be returned.
With the price and scarcity of ammo what it is, who in their right mind would waste it on something useless like that??? /s
Would it be a punishable thought crime to rejoice IF he were successful?? What would be the penalties??? /s
Judging from this article, he deserves to go to prison.
However, where are the charges against all of people who threatened to kill President Trump?
Maybe, but probably the patriotic protesters would have stopped him.
Headline reads: “Man who threatened to shoot Pelosi sentenced to more than two years in prison”
Should be 56 months, because he didn’t.
Kathy Griffin was unavailable for comment.
he had a machine gun??
Is holding the severed head of President still funny...?
Asking for a friend.
I stopped reading at “Judge Amy Berman Jackson.”
I don’t have a problem jailing this guy if he had actually made threats and tried to carry them out.
But I’ll point out again that BLM and AntiFa have done the same and aren’t even being investigated or given slaps on the wrist.
And nothing when leftists said the same to Republicans.
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