What Next - The Capitol Rioters, A Year Later
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
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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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| 0:00.0 | Quick heads up. In today's show, we are talking about the Capitol Riot a year ago. |
| 0:07.3 | There's a whole bunch of swearing that day. We quote it, we play tape of it, we refer to it. You've been warned. |
| 0:19.0 | Just about a year ago, Jack Griffith was getting ready to make a trip to Washington. |
| 0:25.0 | It was going to be a 600-mile journey. |
| 0:27.2 | And we are not exactly sure how he got there or who he stayed with once he arrived. |
| 0:32.6 | What we are sure of is that he was psyched. |
| 0:37.3 | We're in this bitch. |
| 0:39.0 | We're going in. |
| 0:41.4 | In the Capitol. |
| 0:43.2 | This is our house. |
| 0:44.8 | We pay for this shit. |
| 0:46.4 | This is a bit of video of Griffith and his friends that just breached the Capitol building on January 6th. |
| 0:53.0 | They're all really excited. |
| 0:54.9 | One of them says, we're in this bitch. |
| 0:56.7 | Another one screams, we're going in. |
| 0:58.9 | And then this guy literally just screams because he's so excited. |
| 1:03.0 | So no doubt he's happy to be there. |
| 1:05.2 | He's happy to be there. |
| 1:15.8 | BuzzFeed news reporter Zoe Tillman wanted to talk about Jack Griffith's story, |
| 1:20.9 | because to her what happened to Griffith, it'll tell you a little bit about some of the defendants who have spent the last year reckoning with their actions at the Capitol. |
| 1:25.5 | First of all, a whole lot of these folks are not sorry. |
| 1:29.6 | Afterwards, we found that he had been promoting a video game that he was building, |
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