Posted on 12/11/2022 1:40:22 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
December 10, 2022 - WASHINGTON – A Florida man was found guilty in the District of Columbia yesterday of felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
Bradley Weeks, 44, of Macclenny, Florida was found guilty of five charges in total, including one felony. The verdict followed a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan. Weeks was found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a capitol building; parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
According to the government's evidence, Weeks traveled to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and recorded video of the crowd on the Capitol lawn. Upon reaching the Upper West Terrance of the Capitol Building, Weeks set the camera to record himself declaring "We've reached the steps. We've had to climb scaffolding. We've had to climb ladders. We've had to break things to get through, but we've gotten through. We've gotten through, and we are taking back the Capitol! We're taking back our country! This is our 1776! This is where it's gonna happen! This is where Tyranny will fall! This is where America will rise! Look at this, America! Look at this!" He then turned the camera back toward the lawn. Weeks then illegally entered the Capitol building.
Sentencing will be scheduled at a later date. The felony obstruction charge carries a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison and potential financial penalties. The misdemeanor offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds each carry a statutory maximum of one year of incarceration. The misdemeanor offenses of disorderly conduct in a capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building each carry a statutory maximum of six months. The Court will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Valuable assistance was provided by U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Valuable assistance was provided by the FBI’s Jacksonville Field Office and the U.S. Capitol Police.
In the 23 months since Jan. 6, 2021, nearly 900 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including over 275 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. The investigation remains ongoing.
Anyone with tips can call 1-800-CALL-FBI (800-225-5324) or visit tips.fbi.gov.
Source: DOJ Release
Obstruction of what?
Also, the possible sentences for the misdemeanor charges seem awfully harsh to me.
He was guilty of interfering with a coup de ta in progress.
Just how many times has the left obstructed an official proceeding?
It is not possible to obtain a fair trial in Washington, D.C..
Time to annex the district to Prince George’s county, and if possible, saw the whole mess off and set it adrift in the Chesapeake bay.
Everyone should photoshop themselves into the January 6th crowd and post it on Facebook. Everyone!
I remember when I felt terrible for the Beltway residents during the Hood Rat snipers chaos.
“ It is not possible to obtain a fair trial in Washington, D.C..”
Exactly why the rally shouldn’t have been held - or at least not in DC. I told people they were running a risk by going.
“Weeks set the camera to record himself declaring “We’ve reached the steps. We’ve had to climb scaffolding. We’ve had to climb ladders. We’ve had to break things to get through, but we’ve gotten through. We’ve gotten through, and we are taking back the Capitol! We’re taking back our country! This is our 1776! This is where it’s gonna happen! This is where Tyranny will fall! This is where America will rise! Look at this, America! Look at this!””
Not a smart move. Then the government takes two years to prosecute the case? What a mess.
The risk was in entering the Capitol, not in going to DC. I went to DC, but not into the Capitol. I did get a visit from the FIBs, but nothing came of it.
“Just how many times has the left obstructed an official proceeding?”
Many, many times. But they are protected / favored.
We have to stand up to government tyranny. We have the unfettered right to redress a grievance with our government.
I was at January 6 and not fearful.
I have a question about “breach of the Capitol”.
On November 15, 1969, I got off a bus in West Potomac Park at 5:30AM , when it was 9 degrees, to join what eventually became about 500,000 people on and around the Mall to express negative feelings about our SE Asia policy.
It was an interesting day. Maybe I will post about that another time.
This post is to relate that security was tight all over town, EXCEPT at the Capitol, which was open 24 hours a day, even on this day. I already loved the Capitol, I was 19 years old and I could have given a guided tour.
But - you could walk in through any entrance, or walk into one of the office buildings and ride the Capitol subway over. Majority Leader Mansfield and Speaker McCormack were in their offices, you could knock on the door, sit on a couch, and sometimes they would come out and talk to the uninvited visitors.
The White House was surrounded by a triple ring of buses and the National Guard. But the Capitol - which belongs to us, last time I looked - was unguarded and wide open the whole day. Oh, and those concrete bollards that surround the building now and sit in the middle of all the walkways and stairways? They didn’t exist back then.
I don’t think the Senators and Representatives of 1969 were filled with fear like the ones we have today. Ours now must have guilty consciences.
The wicked flee where no man pursueth.
I’m curious, how did they know you were there... Facebook posts?
Alyssa Milano and her fellow pro-abortion protesters dressed as Handmaids during the Kavanaugh hearings come to mind.
“ The risk was in entering the Capitol, not in going to DC. “
Based on the past leftist violence against Trump rallies in DC, there was risk in simply being at the main rally. As it happens, this time the left brought the damage at the Capitol, but that was their strategy this time; it could have played out at the main rally - like after Trumps 2020 speech accepting the GOP nomination, when audience members were mugged trying to walk back from their hotels, or like at his 2017 inauguration parade when violence was pervasive and cars were set on fire.
I’m glad antifa the left didn’t descend in the main crowd this time and you had a safe time. But I’m sad for the folks who marched to the Capitol and had their lives turned upside down
Bottom line, there should be no future Trump rallies in DC without assurances of major national guard protection
You mean like THIS?
Glad the founders of this country didn't use that weak strategy.
Persons charged with crimes, felony or misdemeanor, should be able to select the jurisdiction of their trial.
The rally played into the lefts hands and ironically increased tyranny in America, giving the DOJ and FBI opportunity/excuse to go full authoritarian against MAGA supporters - and accomplishing nothing to get the election results reviewed let alone overturned. Just opposite - the rally drew attention away from the planned debate in Congress over evidence of election irregularities, and the riot after the rally (planned by the left?) shut down that debate altogether. I’m sorry, but this was all forseeable. The rally and March to the Capitol gave the left an enormous opportunity and the left seized it effectively.
Glad you stayed safe. So glad I didn’t go.
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