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DOJ calls for 8 years in prison for Jan. 6 rioter dubbed ‘bullhorn lady’
The Hill ^ | 10/12/2023 | LAUREN SFORZA

Posted on 10/12/2023 12:07:47 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The Justice Department is seeking 8 years in prison for a Pennsylvania woman accused of directing Jan. 6 rioters into the Capitol building with a bullhorn.

Federal prosecutors said in a sentencing memo Wednesday that they are seeking eight years in prison for Rachel Marie Powell, 41, who was convicted of all charges brought against her in July. Obstruction of an official proceeding, destruction of government property, entering a restricted area with a weapon and engaging in violence on Capitol grounds were among her charges.

The prosecutors said that they are seeking the eight-year sentence due to “her conduct on January 6, 2021, including her violent altercations with law enforcement at the West Plaza, her smashing of a window at the Lower West Terrace with an ice axe and a cardboard pole, her encouragement and instructions to other rioters on how to ‘take’ the U.S. Capitol, and for her utter lack of remorse.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

The JaySixers still haven’t announced any sentences for the Muslim Terrorists in the U.S. Congress. Those boyz better get busy or the terrorist Ivy Leaguers are going to destroy their FAR LEFT DEMOCRAZY.


21 posted on 10/12/2023 12:33:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Make America FIRST Again. FJB)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The horrible “Fort Apache Israel” terrorist attack last weekend will only strengthen the police and security state here in the USA that led us from September 11th to January 6th.


22 posted on 10/12/2023 12:34:23 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: 1Old Pro

23 posted on 10/12/2023 12:35:12 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I will just refer to a small group here:
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A 22-year-old man has been sentenced in connection to the shooting death of his 16-year-old girlfriend, according to court records.

Alexander Valenzuela was sentenced to 90 days in the Harris County Jail and six years of deferred adjudication community supervision. He has also been ordered to attend an Intermediate Sanctions Facility for cognitive behavioral treatment for at least 45 days, court records show.

Valenzuela was initially charged with murder in the death of Ciana “Cici” Castro in April 2021. Her mother, Dulce Rodriguez, told ABC13 she was shocked by what she called a “light” sentence and explained she was so surprised when Judge Jason Luong handed it down on Dec.13 that she had to be quieted. Castro’s father had to be escorted out.
abc13.com
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Federal Crime:
18 USC § 1658(b); Preventing escape from a sinking vessel OR holding out false light, or
extinguishing a true light with intent to cause distress to a sailing vessel.
10 year sentence.
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non federal....
https://www.fox9.com/news/victims-family-outraged-by-sentence-in-deadly-minneapolis-crash

As part of a plea agreement, Vaughn pleaded guilty to one count of criminal vehicular homicide and was sentenced to a presumptive, guideline sentence of 48 months in prison.

In exchange for his plea, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office dropped a second count of criminal vehicular homicide.


24 posted on 10/12/2023 12:36:14 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When Trump gets elected these people are going to have to pay for the outright revenge politics they are visiting upon the January 6 protestors.

This is utter madness. Not one government official was actually harmed - the only person killed was murdered by a leftist Capitol Police Officer.


25 posted on 10/12/2023 12:39:38 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Jacquerie

RE: Not being part of the congressional guilt....

Between Reagan and Trump the Presidential races were bad vs. worse. So many today ruminate over their vote for Romney.

When Ilhan Omar was running someone in Minnesota posted here “They’re portraying her as cute, cuddly and with dimples answering questions shyly. She is dangerous and we are in trouble if she wins.” (paraphrased)

“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.”
-——source under controversy but attributed to Mark Twain.


26 posted on 10/12/2023 12:42:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The country is completely upside down!


27 posted on 10/12/2023 12:43:43 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
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To: EinNYC

Apparently he gets special treatment!!


28 posted on 10/12/2023 12:44:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: 1Old Pro

Bowman, as former public school principal, probably wouldn’t know what a fire alarm is. Nor would he be familiar with reading English.


29 posted on 10/12/2023 12:46:14 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: EinNYC

Exactly!


30 posted on 10/12/2023 12:55:55 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

with the hamonsters, murder is quick. with our MiniTru, it’s slow via DC run gulags.


31 posted on 10/12/2023 1:05:40 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What about bullhorn Ray Epps? Numerous vids exist showing Epps with bullhorn encouraging protester to storm Capitol Bldg.


32 posted on 10/12/2023 1:28:26 PM PDT by chopperk (i)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rachel Marie Powell ...sounds like Antifa or Robert Creamer hired agitator or some of that ilk. Who but a leftwing nut goes to a speech with an ice axe?


33 posted on 10/12/2023 1:37:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

While Tlaib is a member of Congress and did not condemn Hamas on the beheadings of babies. And flies the Palestinian flag outside her congressional office.


34 posted on 10/12/2023 1:39:15 PM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: PGR88

Not necessarily... she can always be pardoned.


35 posted on 10/12/2023 1:40:26 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wonder who she was with? I doubt she went by herself.


36 posted on 10/12/2023 1:47:17 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Then Ray Epps should get 80 years.


37 posted on 10/12/2023 1:56:39 PM PDT by MAAG (The LORD does not choose sides, HE is a side.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
She claims she broke the window to "save lives" near that tunnel. see: "Rachel Powell’s life has been living Hell since she broke a window to “save lives” near the tunnel where Roseanne Boyland died on Jan. 6. With her upcoming sentencing hearing in October, Powell fears she may be sentenced to years in prison because of the decisions she made that day." (from another thread.) But she didn't say how she came to have an ice axe, and IF she was recorded shouting into the bullhorn essentially the same thing as CNN's agent provocateur Sullivan of Insurgenceusa USA, then she may be lying about her reasons.

The only people who could have and did benefit from the riot were the Democrats and antitrumpers. Trump could not have benefited in any way from it even if he was a wannabe revolutionary (which he isnt) and even if the rioters had taken the Capitol, which they most certainly were not equipped to do. That's what makes me think everyone who was there instead of down the mall listening to his speech was an actor working for the Dems, the whole point being to prevent Trump's case from being made.

38 posted on 10/12/2023 2:03:25 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: high info voter; Jim Robinson; GOPJ
“Unfortunately, the only way this is probably capable of being fixed is bloodshed because I’m not so sure our government can be fixed the political way anymore either,” she wrote.

For many years I have seen posts similar to this on FR. By themselves, I don't think such statements prove violent intent, but if you are ever in the general area where violence occurs, federal prosecutors like to use such posts in criminal trials like that of Rachel Marie Powell. And it is possible for DC jurors, for example, to take such posts as evidence to convict you.

I don't know all the facts in this case, and part of that reason is the government has not released the video.

39 posted on 10/12/2023 2:05:15 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: piasa
Thanks. Can you post a link about the ice axe? I have not been able to find anything like that in the articles I have seen.

That's what makes me think everyone who was there instead of down the mall listening to his speech was an actor working for the Dems

"everyone who was there?" I don't think that is fair. Maybe that is true for some of those present, but it's unlikely to be "everyone."

See #39.

40 posted on 10/12/2023 2:17:46 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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