Punishing the Capitol Rioters
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🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Six months after the Capitol riot, plea deals from cases against the rioters have begun to trickle in. Will the courts be able to do what Congress couldn’t, and insist on a shared version of events on January 6th?
Guest: Zoe Tillman, senior legal reporter at BuzzFeed News.
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| 0:00.0 | For the last six months, Zoe Tillman has been keeping a growing list of all the people facing charges for storming the capital back in January. |
| 0:14.7 | You've said there are 535 people, maybe more, who have been charged at this point? |
| 0:20.3 | It's more. As of today, my list is up to |
| 0:23.1 | close to 550. So every day, we get new cases. More get unsealed. Zoe reports for BuzzFeed, |
| 0:34.1 | says these cases fall into a couple of categories. |
| 0:40.5 | They're the people facing misdemeanors, just for being there. |
| 0:43.4 | And then there are the people facing felonies. |
| 0:47.6 | This latter group, some of these folks hurt police officers. |
| 0:52.1 | Others simply rifled through lawmakers' desks on the Senate floor. |
| 0:55.4 | All of this was, of course, documented. |
| 1:06.8 | This is from a video a New Yorker writer took on January 6th. |
| 1:13.9 | It shows rioters who are unsure of exactly what to do with themselves once they breach the Capitol's inner sanctum. |
| 1:20.6 | A few minutes in, you see a guy in a black t-shirt with long, dark hair, milling in the foreground. |
| 1:28.3 | You never hear him speak, but you see him pat his chest as another man offers a prayer through a megaphone. Thank you for allowing us to get rid of the communist, the globalists, and the traitors within our government. |
| 1:33.3 | We love you and we thank you. In Christ's holy name, we pray. |
| 1:36.3 | Amen! |
| 1:37.3 | And I won it! |
| 1:39.3 | He was walking around with a flag. |
| 1:42.3 | He salutes at one point because folks are reciting prayers and |
| 1:48.7 | demonstrating from the dais. And he seemed to be in support of that. This guy's name is Paul Hodgkins. |
| 1:58.0 | And earlier this week, he became the first person to face prison time for what he did that day. |
| 2:04.4 | Though what he did still seems to be a matter of some dispute. |
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