It’s like facial recognition, but focused on clothing details. He’s seen from the back pushing some cops. He’s in the company of BlackBallistic3P, HiHoSilverKnob, MississippiFlagGuy, NunezPB, and WildBossMan. Can one use that data to place him in a photo where his face is visible?
A thrifted black hoodie (no credit card details!) and a mask would provide better opsec.
Most of the Capitol’s windows were reinforced against bombs. The ones that were broken in the riots weren’t. How did the rioters know which windows to breach?
"Pressed on the timeline of the criminal referrals, Schiff said, “It will come very fast if people refuse to cooperate, have no basis for their refusal, it will come very fast. I think that’s all I can say.”
But 100 is a nice round number, and a large enough pool to understand the deals that prosecutors have offered in the months since the attack on the Capitol, who is taking them, and what both sides are getting in return. BuzzFeed News is publishing a database of documents filed in connection with these pleas, including the agreements that outline the terms and separate statements of the criminal conduct that defendants are admitting to.
he really can’t win fair and square. there are too many criminal and financial proceedings against him with merit
he can only win by obstructing or subverting the legal system, which we generally allow because he’s white, has money, has “friends” - but none of that is fair by any reasonable definition
These particular judges surely aren’t. They are saying what the rest of us have been saying.
‘There have to be consequences:’ Judge ups sentences for U.S. Capitol rioters
(excerpt): “There have to be consequences for participating in an attempted violent overthrow of the government, beyond sitting at home,” Chutkan said at one of the hearings. Chutkan is not the first judge to second-guess the Justice Department’s handling of the Jan. 6 prosecutions. Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the federal court in Washington, has suggested prosecutors were being too lenient in allowing some defendants to plead guilty to misdemeanor offenses. At a hearing in August, Howell said even defendants facing low-level offenses played a role in “terrorizing members of Congress” on Jan 6. During a plea hearing, the judge asked: "Does the government, in agreeing to the petty offense in this case, have any concern about deterrence?"
