Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

First Jan. 6 Protester to Enter US Capitol Is Sentenced to More Than 4 Years in Prison
The Epoch Times ^ | August 28, 2024 | Bill Pan

Posted on 08/29/2024 5:09:55 PM PDT by linMcHlp

A Kentucky man who was the first known person to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.

Michael Sparks, 47, was convicted in March by a federal jury in the District of Columbia on all six charges that he faced, including two felony offenses of obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder.

On Aug. 27, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Sparks to 53 months in prison and fined him $2,000.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2020; 20210106; 202101061413; arresttimothykelly; brokenwindow; capitol; capitolwindow; doxanddestroy; doxtimothyjkelly; election; enemieslist; enemyjudge; j6; jan6; jan6th; judicialsedition; michaelsparks; mikesparks; politicalprisoners; sparks; timothyjkelly; timothykelly
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-79 last
To: Kleon
Because you are a clown. A five second search could show you the damage done to the Capitol that day. But you won't look. You will cover your eyes and put your fingers in your ears and stomp your fat feet and scream "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

You are the worst kind of sheep. No independent thought. You just suck down what is fed to you. Disgusting.

61 posted on 08/30/2024 6:15:00 AM PDT by thefactor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: thefactor

The FEDsurrectionists broke the windows. All a honey trap for patriots.


62 posted on 08/30/2024 6:43:09 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: linMcHlp

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS


63 posted on 08/30/2024 7:05:20 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: linMcHlp

Has he been in prison for 3 years already?


64 posted on 08/30/2024 7:32:00 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: thefactor

“So what you’re saying is, no doors or windows were broken, no protestors used bear spray, and no police were assaulted? (None were killed, we know that.)
Is that what you’re saying? People just opened up unlocked doors and walked into the Capitol that day? That’s what happened?”

What happened was the deep state government goons, like in the Federal Bureau of Instigators, embedded within the MAGA crowds (a fact that we know now), people like Ray Epps, instigated and encouraged the crowd into doing things that they shouldn’t have done. But it was the left using the emotions of the day to get their opposition to screw up and act out. The ones that were inside the building and just walking around that I saw were waved in by police. They didn’t “”break in””. They were invited in.


65 posted on 08/30/2024 8:31:48 AM PDT by Danie_2023
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: thefactor

Many entered peacefully and are on video doing so. If this man entered through a broken window that is different. Four years is insane and disproportionate though.


66 posted on 08/30/2024 8:31:55 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: piasa

“Those who were involved in the vandalism were the ones who didn’t go to the Trump speech but were there from the beginning, like the Black Lives Matter videographer than CNN paid, etc. It would be interesting to know if this guy had any connection to Epps or had been in protests elsewhere in the country on either side.”

You can bet that our corrupted, compromised “intel” agencies know exactly who the ones that have been arrested and jailed without due process had connections with. Nobody associated with the left, IOW. And you can also bet that none of the ones jailed without due process had ANY connections to any real anarchists. The real anarchists (Read: Deep State plants and Antifa, BLM, etc.) skated free.


67 posted on 08/30/2024 8:36:59 AM PDT by Danie_2023
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Fireone

“This guy used poor judgement, which shouldn’t get you 4 years.”

Even if he had been caught “on camera” breaking a window to get in, that’s vandalism that never got any Antifa or BLM members jail time.


68 posted on 08/30/2024 8:43:52 AM PDT by Danie_2023
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: linMcHlp

Was he in jail this whole time dreading his trial? Or outside this whole time dreading his trial? So, eight years for entering the building.


69 posted on 08/30/2024 9:09:00 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Propaganda keeps only governments in business, not corporations. —John Nolte)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: thefactor

The first ones didn’t but many others did.


70 posted on 08/30/2024 10:07:38 AM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: linMcHlp
...“impaired the availability or integrity” of records, documents, or other objects used in an official proceeding...

Like Pelosi's ripping up Trump's SOTU speech?

71 posted on 08/30/2024 11:20:11 AM PDT by CDB (Retreat Hell! We're attacking in a different direction.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: linMcHlp
FBI Agent: "Were you there at the Insurrection on January 6th?"

Trump Supporter: "No. I wasn't even in DC that day."

FBI Agent: "Did you watch the Insurrection on TV?"

Trump supporter: "Yes, some of it. It was on every TV station and you couldn't get away from it!"

FBI Agent: "Comrade, you are under arrest. Get on your knees and place your hands behind your head!"

72 posted on 08/30/2024 12:04:32 PM PDT by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gritty

If you vote[d] for Trump, you are an enemy of the Administrative State.


73 posted on 08/30/2024 12:11:48 PM PDT by linMcHlp
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 72 | View Replies]

To: linMcHlp

Did he enter through the 2 ton magnetic-lock doors that could only be opened from inside?


74 posted on 08/30/2024 12:31:04 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Governor Dinwiddie

Goes back to the old saying, you steal a dollar, I steal a dime, you write a book and I do the time🤬🤬


75 posted on 08/30/2024 1:16:31 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Laiken Riley is my daughter!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: linMcHlp

The government always wants its pound of flesh.


76 posted on 08/30/2024 3:43:17 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: xoxox

That has always been my thought on this. The Congressional building is owned by the public. So wants wrong with going inside?


77 posted on 08/30/2024 3:44:28 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: linMcHlp

Anyone remember the insurrectionists who tried to stop Trumps inauguration in 2017? Pass this around: ALL charges dropped for ALL involved, this is never ever talked about......

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/government-drops-charges-against-all-inauguration-protesters-n889531


78 posted on 08/30/2024 6:17:36 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda
GJMY, tx for reminder:

"insurrectionists who tried to stop Trumps inauguration in 2017? Pass this around: ALL charges dropped for ALL involved, this is never ever talked about . . ."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/government-drops-charges-against-all-inauguration-protesters-n889531

BTTT

79 posted on 08/31/2024 3:23:14 AM PDT by linMcHlp
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-79 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson