Rage and consequences

[ThatOwlWoman]

A very good read from a reporter who has covered the criminal justice realm for decades, from Mafia trials to El Chapo's day in court to far-right extremists. Now he's covering the January 6 trials and hearings.

Rage and consequences

How did you become the reporter who covers these hearings?

I’ve covered courts and crime for over 20 years: murders, mafia and police corruption trials and the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo. I’ve also spent a lot of time covering far-right extremist groups. As I watched the Jan. 6 attack on TV, I actually recognized people in the crowd. As people started getting arrested, I did what I’ve always done: track documents and set up a database of the now 850-plus cases.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

A very good read from a reporter who has covered the criminal justice realm for decades, from Mafia trials to El Chapo's day in court to far-right extremists. Now he's covering the January 6 trials and hearings.

Rage and consequences

Jan. 6, Trump stoked a ragtag, armed assemblage. The mostly white mob was fueled by perceived grievances — they were not oppressed like Birmingham’s Black citizens. They stormed the U.S. Capitol, embracing the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. The police eventually quashed the seditionists with relative gentility. By contrast, the Birmingham police ordered the Birmingham Fire Department to bombard peaceful protesters, including children, with fire streams that cartwheeled them down the street, careening into buildings. Police directed vicious German Shepherds to maul protesters.

King wrote that an individual who defies a law that their conscience tells them is unjust, willingly accepting prison to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, expresses the highest respect for the law. The Jan. 6 mob disdained that high ground. During his Arizona rally last weekend, Trump railed that whites are discriminated against in receiving COVID-19 treatments. King would say, “No lie can live forever. Truth crushed to earth will rise again.”

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Jan. 6, Trump stoked a ragtag, armed assemblage. The mostly white mob was fueled by perceived grievances — they were not oppressed like Birmingham’s Black citizens. They stormed the U.S. Capitol, embracing the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. The police eventually quashed the seditionists with relative gentility. By contrast, the Birmingham police ordered the Birmingham Fire Department to bombard peaceful protesters, including children, with fire streams that cartwheeled them down the street, careening into buildings. Police directed vicious German Shepherds to maul protesters.

King wrote that an individual who defies a law that their conscience tells them is unjust, willingly accepting prison to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, expresses the highest respect for the law. The Jan. 6 mob disdained that high ground. During his Arizona rally last weekend, Trump railed that whites are discriminated against in receiving COVID-19 treatments. King would say, “No lie can live forever. Truth crushed to earth will rise again.”

Lovely. So he's out stoking racial hatred and fear again, eh?

In great contrast to Dr. King, who peacefully did his time in prison, we have convicted MAGATs whining and crying and sobbing and begging for mercy. So much for standing up for what they thought was right.