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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 08:42 PM Oct 2021

Unvaccinated Capitol Rioter Pleads for Leniency Because She's Scared of Getting Covid in Prison

Dona Bissey doesn’t want to go to prison.

This is probably something the 53-year-old from Bloomington, Indiana, should have thought about before allegedly breaking into the United States Capitol on January 6th. Now, Bissey is one of at least 660 people who have been charged for their potential involvement in the insurrection. She’s staring down a prison sentence — and desperately pleading with a judge to give her 18 months of probation instead.

Her latest push for leniency, as NBC4’s Scott McFarlane uncovered on Friday, centers around the idea that Covid-19 has wrought havoc on the prison system. “She is extremely likely to suffer severe illness or even death” should she be incarcerated, Bissey’s lawyer wrote, adding that “she does not deserve to die for her bad behavior on January 6th.”

There’s a pretty big issue with this argument, though, as Bissey’s lawyer felt obligated to note: “Certainly, Ms. Bissey has not helped her chances of fighting the virus by remaining unvaccinated.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/unvaccinated-capitol-rioter-pleads-leniency-153633036.html

This is the woman who complained about her townsfolk treating her like crap for being in DC Jan. 6. Better get your fucking vaccination lady.

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Unvaccinated Capitol Rioter Pleads for Leniency Because She's Scared of Getting Covid in Prison (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
Vaccinate her ass and throw her in jail. roamer65 Oct 2021 #1
Tough s**t elleng Oct 2021 #2
👆👆👆👆👆Co sign. irisblue Oct 2021 #9
I'd laugh if the judge gave the option of home confinement only if she was vaccinated. LonePirate Oct 2021 #3
If I were that judge I'd offer her that, but I'd double the length of the sentence. Volaris Oct 2021 #13
fuck her hope she dies gopiscrap Oct 2021 #4
I think... Mike Nelson Oct 2021 #5
Whether or not she protects herself from Covid-related death is not the court's concern, nor RockRaven Oct 2021 #6
Should've thought about that before you committed sedition, Dona. sakabatou Oct 2021 #7
What about others who have done far less than her who are locked up Tribetime Oct 2021 #8
Unpossible! It's a hoax, remember? tanyev Oct 2021 #10
Gee, if only there was a free and highly effective vaccine Downtown Hound Oct 2021 #11
2 questions for Bissey: Ivermectin or Lysol injection? East-A-Squared Oct 2021 #12
Let her get vaccinated before incarceration, Crunchy Frog Oct 2021 #14

LonePirate

(13,417 posts)
3. I'd laugh if the judge gave the option of home confinement only if she was vaccinated.
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 08:49 PM
Oct 2021

Otherwise, lock her up as the deplorables are wont to scream.

Volaris

(10,270 posts)
13. If I were that judge I'd offer her that, but I'd double the length of the sentence.
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 11:51 PM
Oct 2021

3 years of keep your seditious ass in your house with your shot, or go to jail without it n take your chances.


Mike Nelson

(9,953 posts)
5. I think...
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 08:51 PM
Oct 2021

... we can accommodate her easily. Vaccinate her immediately and give her one of those ankle things for two weeks. She can start serving her sentence when the vaccine takes effect. Problem solved!

RockRaven

(14,959 posts)
6. Whether or not she protects herself from Covid-related death is not the court's concern, nor
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 09:10 PM
Oct 2021

should it be. She did the crime, she should do the time. She has ready access to the vaccine, as all Americans do. If she chooses to spurn it, that is her lookout. Fuck this kind of argument for leniency.

Tribetime

(4,685 posts)
8. What about others who have done far less than her who are locked up
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 09:12 PM
Oct 2021

Are they just peons and she's the privileged one

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
11. Gee, if only there was a free and highly effective vaccine
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 09:31 PM
Oct 2021

available that would drastically cut down on her chances of getting Covid and even more so reduce her chances of a serious infection if she were to get the disease.

Oh well. Maybe in the next life!

Crunchy Frog

(26,579 posts)
14. Let her get vaccinated before incarceration,
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 01:14 AM
Oct 2021

and let her wear masks in the big house.

If she won't get vaxxed, then she's clearly not that worried about dying.

Does she think that the other prisoners want to or deserve to die of Covid? Of course I'm sure she thinks that she's a speshul little snowflake, but she probably needs to learn the hard way that nobody else thinks so.

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