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kpete

(72,145 posts)
Mon Oct 4, 2021, 02:43 PM Oct 2021

1/6 sentencing Judge: "He went to the capital in support of one man, not in support of our country."

HAPPENING NOW: At sentencing hearing for Jan. 6 misdemeanor defendant Carl Mazzocco, Judge CHUTKAN sharply rejects comparison between 1/6 rioters and George Floyd protestors.

"I flatly disagree," she said.

"To compare the actions of people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights to those of a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government is a false equivalency," Chutkan said.

Chutkan also references Trump: "He went to the capital in support of one man, not in support of our country. "


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