The Capitol Rioters, A Year Later
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Justice Department’s criminal investigation into the January 6th insurrection is unprecedented. More than 700 rioters face charges, and federal prosecutors are still adding names to the pile. As cases work their way through the courts, judges are sparring over the proper approach to sentencing rioters. How do you hold an individual responsible for a collective event?
Guest: Zoe Tillman, senior legal reporter with BuzzFeed News.
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| 0:26.9 | Slack.com slash DHQ. Quick heads up. In today's show, we are talking about the capital |
| 0:35.3 | riot a year ago. There's a whole bunch of swearing that day. We quote it, we play tape |
| 0:40.6 | of it, we refer to it. You've been warned. Just about a year ago, Jack Griffith was getting |
| 0:52.5 | ready to make a trip to Washington. It was going to be a 600-mile journey, and we are not |
| 0:57.7 | exactly sure how he got there or who he stayed with once he arrived. What we are sure of |
| 1:04.2 | is that he was psyched. This is a bit of video of Griffith and his friends that just breached |
| 1:19.9 | the capital building on January 6th. They're all really excited. One of them says we're |
| 1:25.5 | in this bitch, another one screams we're going in, and then this guy literally just screams |
| 1:31.1 | because he's so excited. So no doubt he's happy to be there. He's happy to be there. |
| 1:41.2 | Buzzfeed news reporter Zoe Tillman wanted to talk about Jack Griffith's story because |
| 1:46.0 | to her what happened to Griffith, it'll tell you a little bit about some of the defendants |
| 1:50.5 | who have spent the last year reckoning with their actions at the capital. First of all, |
| 1:56.1 | a whole lot of these folks are not sorry. Afterwards we found that he had been promoting |
| 2:02.3 | a video game that he was building where it's like a first person Donald Trump shooter game. |
| 2:08.0 | These people are sick and deprived and will soon also be dead. The Donald Trump character |
| 2:15.7 | can shoot Dem zombies and Antifa. Hold it, he was designing that video game after January 6th. |
| 2:31.6 | That's right. That's right. After he got arrested, Griffith seemed to treat the whole thing |
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