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Man Told by an Officer That He Could Enter the Capitol on Jan. 6 Now Faces 20 Years in Prison
PJ Media ^ | 03/21/2022 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 03/21/2022 8:27:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

On Jan. 6, 2021, a protestor, 40-year-old Brady Knowlton, says that an officer at the Capitol told “You can go in, as long as you don’t break anything.” At 2:35 p.m., Knowlton did, entering through the Upper West Terrace doors. He looked around inside the building, walked through the Rotunda, lobby, and Senate chamber gallery, obeyed the officer’s injunction not to break anything, and left the building at 2:53 p.m. For that, Knowlton now faces twenty years in prison in Old Joe Biden’s vengeful banana republic.

On top of the possibility of being behind bars until 2042, Knowlton, a law student, has suffered numerous other consequences already. According to the Daily Wire, “his law degree has been withheld, his lawyers say, Airbnb has banned him and his wife, and, for reasons that remain undisclosed, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has stripped his Global Entry access.”

According to the charges filed against him in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Knowlton “did unlawfully and knowingly enter and remain in a restricted building and grounds.” He also “did knowingly, and with intent to impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, engage in disorderly and disruptive conduct in and within such proximity to, a restricted building and grounds, that is, any posted, cordoned-off, and otherwise restricted area within the United States Capitol and its grounds, where the Vice President and Vice President-elect were temporarily visiting.” He “willfully and knowingly engaged in disorderly and disruptive conduct within the United States Capitol Grounds. He “willfully and knowingly entered and remained in the gallery of either House of Congress, without authorization to do so.”

If Knowlton’s contention that a police officer said he could go in is true, it vitiates all these charges,

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: capitol; deminsurgency; jan6; january6; pelosiscoup; prison
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1 posted on 03/21/2022 8:27:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this really how USA is now? Disgusting!


2 posted on 03/21/2022 8:30:40 PM PDT by entropy12 (Blockade of Cuba by USA was OK by neocons, but Russia must tolerate NATO weapons on its border!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“For that, Knowlton now faces twenty years in prison in Old Joe Biden’s vengeful banana republic.”

Hate to be caught supporting this Administration on other crap.


3 posted on 03/21/2022 8:32:27 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: SeekAndFind

One well known figure didn’t even enter the Capital Building,
but they are trying to put him in prison for a long time.

This is a political witch hunt, way way way over the line.


4 posted on 03/21/2022 8:37:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge a llegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Political prisoner bump.


5 posted on 03/21/2022 8:37:01 PM PDT by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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To: SeekAndFind; BobL
The bottom line is:

The exchange is on video. And Pelosi the scum is hiding the video.

6 posted on 03/21/2022 8:39:44 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: entropy12
"Is this really how USA is now? Disgusting!"

Nice to see that you might have finally awakened to the six (6) decades-long slide into tyranny that has been happening in plain sight...

Unfortunately, you woke up far too late to do anything about it...
There are no avenues to undo this communist tyranny except one...

IAC, just be a good serf and follow our master's rules:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Get used to it or do something significant about it..

7 posted on 03/21/2022 8:39:55 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: kiryandil

“The bottom line is:

The exchange is on video. And Pelosi the scum is hiding the video. “

I figured that much. Glad I don’t support Pelosi on other issues.


8 posted on 03/21/2022 8:43:33 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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bkmk


9 posted on 03/21/2022 9:09:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (Buckhead of the Bikini)
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To: BobL
I don't support the drunken tyrant-hag either.

They have 14,000 hours of video. A search would take all of a day, if that, since he knows the time when he went in, and where.

10 posted on 03/21/2022 9:26:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind

He “willfully and knowingly engaged in disorderly and disruptive conduct within the United States Capitol Grounds. He “willfully and knowingly entered and remained in the gallery of either House of Congress, without authorization to do so.”

Makes him sound like he's a member of Code Pink(o)!

11 posted on 03/21/2022 9:33:52 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: ApplegateRanch

as soon as republicans retake house and presidency- i wanna see code pink brought up on charges, and to be called insurrectionists for doing exactly what the jan 6 protestors did-


12 posted on 03/21/2022 9:41:06 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

When Antifa and BLM were torching cities and blowing up federal facilities and court houses, the Republicans did nothing. It went on for decades. The Republicans didn’t hold hearings. They refused to investigate or prosecute. No one was held accountable.

The Democrats have persecuted the J6 protesters. They’ve held “bi-partisan hearings”. They’ve pressured all of the agencies to investigate and prosecute the J6 protesters. The J6 protesters civil rights have been blatantly violated. Only a handful of Republican representatives spoke up on behalf of the J6 protesters.

Tell me again. Why is the Republican party any better than the Democrat party?


13 posted on 03/21/2022 9:50:50 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: DoughtyOne

I seem to recall, It could have been Putin directly, but some political entity in Russia was calling out the United States for what they’re doing here, for making these political prisoners.


14 posted on 03/21/2022 10:05:48 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: kelly4c

MOSCOW, January 19. /TASS/. Speaker of the Russian State Duma
(lower house of parliament) Vyacheslav Volodin has said that
individuals who were tracked down and arrested after storming
the US Capitol in Washington DC will become genuine political
prisoners.

Thanks for the mention. Pretty close to home there.

Pretty bad when it's so obvious a foreign official gets it
before our puddin headed Republicans do.

LINK

15 posted on 03/21/2022 10:14:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge a llegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Yep. Never thought I’d see the day.


16 posted on 03/21/2022 10:20:37 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: BobL

Do you support Pelosi on this issue, the persecution of the Jan 6 protesters?


17 posted on 03/21/2022 10:20:41 PM PDT by Gigantor (Either the United States respects its Constitution, or there is no need for a United States.)
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To: kelly4c

Same here.


18 posted on 03/21/2022 10:25:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge a llegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Welcome to the U.S.S.A.


19 posted on 03/21/2022 10:45:54 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a clear violation of the 8th Amendment. Many of those charged should get a lawyer or legal organization to bring a class action suit on these grounds.


20 posted on 03/21/2022 11:02:45 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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