A Capitol riot suspect is being 'shunned' by people in her small Indiana town and 'chastised on the

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

street,' lawyer says

A Capitol riot suspect has been "shunned" and "chastised" by her community since her arrest in February, her lawyer wrote in a sentencing memorandum seen by Insider.

On Tuesday, Dona Bissey, 53, from Bloomfield, Indiana, wrote a letter to the court pleading for leniency and asking for a sentence of 18 months of probation.

Bissey faces four charges, including entering and remaining in a restricted building, violent entry, and disorderly conduct in the Capitol.

In the sentencing memorandum, A. J. Kramer, a federal public defender, said the events of the insurrection had left Bissey with "deep regret, fear, shame, and remorse."

Bissey, who owns a hair salon, has lost a lot of customers since her arrest and is taking antidepressants, Kramer said.

"Ms. Bissey has been chastised on the street and her business shunned. She had to move her salon following huge losses from a drop in clientele and because the pandemic made rental space unaffordable," he wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-capitol-riot-suspect-is-being-shunned-by-people-in-her-small-indiana-town-and-chastised-on-the-street-lawyer-says/ar-AAPcezV

[OLDMDDEM]

1. Actions have consequences

I do not feel sorry for her. Lock her up.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

57. DOJ recommends

three years on probation, have to pay $500 in restitution and complete 40 hours of community service.

https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/indiana-woman-sentenced-to-probation-in-capitol-riot-case-dona-sue-bissey-anna-morgan-lloyd-bloomfield-indiana/531-63177c54-33a9-4a10-b445-ac69e34ebf12

[Sherman A1]

64. Far too lenient in my opinion

a few years in Gitmo would be much more likely to drive home the point, that this wasn't a particularly good idea.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

74. I agree it is too lenient, but

IMO Gitmo should be returned to Cuba...It has become a stain on our history.

[OLDMDDEM]

71. Obviously DOJ

is a bunch of wimps.

[gratuitous]

2. Gee whiz, you try just ONE TIME to violently overthrow the government

And it's like you're tagged for life! Sorry Dona, you fucked around and now you're finding out.

[PatSeg]

68. I know, it's not like she did it every week!

These totally clueless people are mindboggling. They really think they are above the law and shouldn't suffer the consequences of their law breaking. I am sure that they rarely show such leniency toward minorities when they break the law.

[Justice matters.]

82. But, but, but... she soooooo LUVS

Drumph the kitty grabber...

[crickets]

3. Boo hoo. nt

[calimary]

44. Beat me to it, crickets!

[Dawson Leery]

4. In the "good old days" that she lusts for, she would be hanged.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Gee, What To Say About This...

Yeah, that says it!

[Wingus Dingus]

6. I'm impressed that a small Indiana town (of all places) is shunning her.

Being so Trumpy and all. Or, maybe they've always wanted to shun her because she's an asshole, and now they finally have a concrete reason to do so.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Right, I was surprised by this as well.

Good for the small town!

[SallyHemmings]

47. This gives me some comfort

Maybe people get that you don't get to change the rules when you lose.

Time will tell as the Republicans try to destroy well everything.

[Irish_Dem]

77. I agree, I found it encouraging as well.

Maybe some regular conservatives understand that overthrowing the government and overturning a legal election is not a good thing.

Maybe there is some hope.

[Texin]

12. It does seem strange given Indiana is the birthplace of the KKK.

[plimsoll]

36. Hmmm? So that whole Nathan Bedford Forrest thing was just a hoax?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

92. The KKK had largely died out because of an 1871 anti-Klan law.

It was re-established around 1920, actually in Georgia, but it really took off in places such as Indiana and southern Illinois (an area I tend to think of as "North Kentucky&quot .

[GoCubsGo]

15. Or, maybe she's grossly exaggerating about her alleged "shunning."

I would like to believe that that what she's saying is true. But, I can't help but believe this is nothing but a ploy to garner sympathy and a lenient sentence.

[Escurumbele]

27. That was my though as well, I believe I have been conditions now to not believe anything these

people say.

republicans are liars by nature, I really don't believe any of them, and my feeling is that she is trying to play the victim, what she doesn't understand is that if she is, in fact, a victim, she is just ripping the fruits of her stupidity.

They all thought the buffoon was going to pay their legal bills, after they give him their paycheck of course.

[Cosmocat]

28. It is a natural ploy to any CONservative

because they live in a state of perpetual victimization.

[hibbing]

29. My first thought too

I thought she'd have even more customers.

Peace

[judesedit]

85. Exactly. Lawyer's tactics. Boo hoo

[Progressive Jones]

17. My Mom's family is from IN. That State is a mixed bag.

My relatives are moderate to liberal. So are most of their friends and associates who I've known over the years.

There are a lot of rednecks, but as a whole, it's not like other red holes.

[Sylvarose]

60. Yep plus Bloomfield isn't that far from Bloomington

....Bloomington is one of the big liberal areas of the state. It's the home of IU and leans heavily blue but the cost of living is really high due to the student population. Bloomfield is about 30 minutes away, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of folks who work at IU but live in that small town.

[karynnj]

72. Yeah, but that county voted 75 percent for Trump in 2020 and 74 percent in 2016

I went to IU decades ago and I do not think I ever heard of the town. Even back in the 1960s and 1970s, there were areas we knew were not happy with our liberal oasis. Looking at the county's voting record, I suspect that there are many people who voted as she did, but were disgusted with the riot.

Brown County on the east side of Monroe County was notorious back when I was in college as a place, gorgeous as parts of it are, that students should avoid. Brown County was only 64 qnd 63 percent respectively for Trump.

Statistics from Wikipedia entry for Green and Brown County indiana.

[Sylvarose]

75. Good Sleuthing

...I don't get to Green County much but not surprised. I'd like to say Brown county isn't so bad but there were some horrible incidents this summer that say otherwise. Just go to the state park and Nashville. Otherwise enjoy the scenery.

[radical noodle]

84. I lived in Greene County for 49 years

The thing is that Bloomfield is a very small town and everyone knows everyone else. I can see people there, even trump supporters, thinking she went too far by participating in that horror show on Jan 6th... or at least that she got caught. Mainstream people there are not cool with being arrested.

[karynnj]

90. Thanks - That makes a lot of sense and is somewhat reassuring on some levels

It also fits with observations that many people in uniformly conservative areas in their own lives can be very good people, helping each other etc. It is reassuring that they might have watched the coverage and been disgusted - as everyone should have been.

[Crunchy Frog]

18. Yes, that kind of surprised me. nt

[msfiddlestix]

21. Right? I'm thinking is the part of her losing business due to 1/6 close to accurate?

As it happens once upon a whole life time ago, I was engaged to a fellow who grew up in a small town in Indiana and where I spent a few weeks at their family farm. way back in the very olden days. It's where I first encountered (and learned the existence of) Amish and Mennonite people who were a part of the population and surrounding community.

I've tried really hard to remember the name of this little town, but I can barely remember my former fiance's full name. LOL.

One thing I feel like is pretty accurate, it was quaint an interesting, but typical small town in rural America. I've no idea if it was mostly conservative or liberal or a little bit of both.

I do remember joining them attending a Presbyterian Church service which I liked a whole better than the Southern Baptist church right across the street from my house in N.C. which I was pressured to attend.

But these past few decades, I haven't seen elected politician's from Indiana, of moderate liberal leanings representing constituents in Congress or the U.S Senate.

And then there's Pence which is indicative of bat shit cray cray..

I'm curious just how accurate this story is as regards "shunned" and drop in business. I hope it's a fairly accurate portrayal.

I'll take it as a hopeful sign.

[Botany]

32. Indiana used to have some progressive to moderate...

... people outside of the cities but those days are gone. The Pence family had a string of convient store/gas stations across Southern Indiana that went belly up and they left the state of Indiana to pay for their clean ups and they still elected Mike's brother to congress.

[msfiddlestix]

35. Right. Refresh my memory please.. Wasn't Pence's Brother caught up in the Russian Money Laundry

scheme, but of course was never indicted or charged.

I do recall a Russian Oligarch closely connected to Pence's brother during TFG's reign of terror and insanity.

The story would pop up quietly and then quickly disappear on a couple of occasions, but I haven't heard anything more recently.

[Botany]

40. I think it was Cummings Diesel.

Btw Paul Manafort picked Mike Pence to be v.p. and
Manafort worked for Putin. Google Newsweek Pence Manafort.

But if these were stories about a few idiots following somebody into a restroom they would have gotten lots of coverage.

[msfiddlestix]

78. ahh yes, but I think there is another Russian oligarch tied into money laundering "businesses"

bankrolling Pence's brother. at some point that whole story with identities will re-surface.

But like you said:

if these were stories about a few idiots following somebody into a restroom they would have gotten lots of coverage.

so effing true.

[maxsolomon]

67. Mike Pence was a Congressman in that district prior to Greg Pence.

The 6th, where my sister lives.

Indianucky.

[mobeau69]

38. Bloomfield is Amish country.

Those folks know how to shun!

[reACTIONary]

79. Remember, that's her lawyer talking. nt

[Skittles]

81. yes

I have a feeling she has never been....popular

[stopdiggin]

86. I'll go further and actually question

the degree of 'shunning' that this person encountered in that 'small Indiana town.' Let's remember that this is a sentencing plea cooked up by her lawyer. Plenty of other small businesses are having problems these days. Has nothing to do with shunning.

[rpannier]

88. Bloomfield is part of the Bloomington, IN area (IU is in Bloomington)

It is mostly an urban area
She's being shunned in an urban University town

[dchill]

7. "I love it when a plan comes together!"

[BumRushDaShow]

31. To reiterate

[dchill]

45. What I'm sayin'!

[RockRaven]

8. Society reacts negatively to anti-social behavior... Whodathunkit?

I don't see what bearing that has on the criminal justice proceedings though. That line of talk is just a manipulative pity-party.

Social consequences already suffered have fuck-all to do with deserving criminal justice leniency. Has she already served time or paid fines? Has she made amends to the victims? Has she fully and candidly cooperated with investigators? Has she reformed herself such that the same errors won't be repeated? Those things are more relevant.

[lagomorph777]

9. Appropriate Opprobrium

[bahboo]

11. good for the town....

[Initech]

13. Excuse my lack of sympathy for these traitorous scumbags.

[Ocelot II]

16. I'm surprised she isn't being hailed as a hero in her small Indiana town.

[Sylvarose]

62. Not all areas of IN are red

....and not all Hoosiers are conservative....but yeah I'm surprised she's doesn't have more support. There's a house in Martinsville that flies a confederate flag next to a turnip 2020 flag.

[dawn5651]

19. she wants sympathy...perhaps she should beg forgiveness for her idiot actions on january 6 then fade

away back in to her qanon hole.

[Wounded Bear]

20. I'm tired of playing 'nice' to the willfully ignorant and intentionally rude and mean...

play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Maybe she shouldn't have bragged about her treason on Instagram.

[C_U_L8R]

22. "Gee, no one told me treason would be so unpopular"

Assclown magat is lucky her town hasn't run her out on a rail.

[Escurumbele]

23. All I can say to everyone, and what I repeat to myself and my kids every day

THINK BEFORE YOU ACT, ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

We all know that republicans have no concept of consequences, that is why they are the crap they are.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

24. Have you noticed, Dona....

That your Fearless Leader hasn’t said a thing, hasn’t raised a single adulterous pinky in your defense? Your life is ruined and he walks away and leaves you ruined. You’re the cheapest of dates, Dona.

[fierywoman]

25. Is the loss of business really shunning or simply fallout from Covid?

[NCjack]

26. Get off depressants! There are hair salon customers waiting for you in prison.

[usaf-vet]

30. Let's just let emojis speak

[Mickju]

33. No sympathy whatsoever

I hope she also gets prison time. That wouldn't be good for her business either. Boo-hoo

[Botany]

34. She drove 600 + miles to DC and crossed police lines .

... lines, broke into the US Capitol, failed to leave the grounds when told to, and the bragged about her actions


FUCK HER. 12 months minimum.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. Lock this idiot up

[NQAS]

39. This is how they should all be treated. . .

Shunned, shamed, etc.

Before they go to jail and after they are released.

I'm sure more sensitive souls - and maybe even more practical ones - might argue that we should embrace them to our bosom. Hate the sin, love the sinner. To embrace the shunning/shaming approach is to contribute to the further radicalization of these domestic terrorists. After all, they're not going to be "rehabilitated" in prison. They are going to connect up with the Aryan Brotherhood (and its female counterpart if there is one) and come out far angrier and much better connected to like minded terrorists.

On balance, what say you all? Shaming/Shunning or Embracing/Converting?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

41. Most of these cases will be textbook examples of inequality in our system of justice.

Most of these MAGATs are relatively well off, at least enough so to afford making that trip on Jan. 6th as well as taking time off work and buying lots of tRump paraphernalia.

Would these same folks show compassion and pity toward a low-income or out-of-work POC father caught stealing food for his kids? Many poor people like that suffer serious jail time over relatively minor crimes after getting trapped in the system 'cause they can't afford a good attorney or the fines and court costs, or miss court dates due to no transportation.

I'm doubtful about the truthfulness of this woman's statements about why she's losing business. Being in red Indiana, it more likely due to COVID and her not being consistently available for appointments, and that's caused by much time spent dealing with her legal issues.

KY........

[LuckyLib]

42. January 6th was the highlight of her life!

Sorry, honey. Was the excitement worth it?

[Takket]

43. I'd like a forensic accountant to verify her claims

I’d like to see just how bad her salon is actually Doing. She is a MAGAt. I don’t buy for a second that she is suffering as much as she says.

[IronLionZion]

46. Indiana voted for Obama in 2008

so there are some sensible people living there.

I lived in Indianapolis for 8 months and it is not my favorite state.

[Sylvarose]

63. Yep...

There are pockets of blue. It's a mixed bag. It can be trying on families though. My one surviving aunt and I stopped talking during the Turnip years. It was the final straw to a painful history, but he was like throwing gas on it. I'm grateful my father goes against every stereotype and never drank the Koolaid. He worked a blue-collar job all his life, only had a high school education and is in his 70's. Can't stand the orange narcissist. Doesn't understand why his peers can't see him for the snake oil salesman that he is.

[karynnj]

73. True, but not that county

In 2008, I was with friends in Boston. When it was reported that Indiana was close, I was very happy to tell them we could well win because Democratic Lake County always was last to come in because they alone in the state were on Chicago's central time and they are a populous County.

[Bristlecone]

48. Schadenfreude never gets old.

She’d do it all over again if given the chance and thought she could get away w it.

[lpbk2713]

49. "But all I did was to try to overthrow the govt by force."

Stupidity has its consequences.

[NBachers]

50. Shave her head bald

[ZonkerHarris]

53. It's always about themselves and how hard a time they are having.

[captain queeg]

54. I'm guessing she thought she'd get a presidential medal of freedom

A lot of those idiots were thinking their god-king would reward them if they managed to destroy America. Even if they had been successful they'd never get their reward. The presidential medal only went to TFG's friends and wealthy donors. I'd almost feel sorry, but I don't, that people ae so delusional.

[RussBLib]

56. Trump's Chumps

Some of them will never learn. Too many turned off their brains to support the Large Orange One.

[Demobrat]

55. I don't believe her hair salon closed because her customers shunned her.

Like they didn’t know she was a Trump Humper before January 6th.

Because of Covid, yes. Because she went to the capital and bragged about it, no.

Hair salons are social places. Her customers knew what she was.

[Shrike47]

58. I hope very bad things happen to her and she realizes what an unpatriotic thing she did.

[Scalded Nun]

59. Cry me a fucking river.

After the insurrection is not the time for reflection. Maybe you can learn a little about risk assessments while your ass is locked up, you fucking idiot.

[The Jungle 1]

61. Her stupid business will have a real hard time when she is in PRISION.

[whopis01]

66. She won't go to prison

The DOJ is recommending 3 years probation, 40 hours of community service, and $500 restitution. No prison time.

[bucolic_frolic]

65. Defendants don't get to set their own sentences

[Seinan Sensei]

69. Capitol building is MY house

Capitol building is MY house
You came into MY house and
broke stuff,
stole things,
smeared shit on the walls
Now you’re banned? Shunned?
Sorry, not sorry.

[marble falls]

70. Nothing happens in a vaccuum. Everything has ripples and repercussion. Maybe if she took the ...

...45 poster in the window down after 45 lost the election?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

76. .

[niyad]

80. I don't believe a word of it, especially the remorse and regret part.

[keithhs28]

83. Cry me...

...an effin river!

[yardwork]

87. She probably received a lot of COVID relief checks from the government she hates.

I'm pleasantly surprised she's being shunned. I kind of doubt it, though. She's probably lying.

[Smackdown2019]

89. France 1890s

Let's see....

A noose was displayed and their attempts was to over throw the government by violent means.

1890s French revolution, such violent overturn government led to public executions.

.........

If such criminals do not want to have the current government and went by means to overthrow it by violence. Then, they are considered traitors.

They are lucky that there is a law to prevent their execution, but they should be expelled from the country after their sentences are carried out.

[Wednesdays]

93. The French Revolution began in 1789. nt

[Smackdown2019]

94. May 5, 1789 - Nov 9, 1799

OK, but the actual beheading did not come into 1892.

May 5, 1789 – Nov 9, 1799

I said the 1890s. Pretty much sums up the French revolution lasted a decade, in off the cuff statement about the French revolution.

[evolves]

91. Boo effing hoo