Capitol rioter who stole officer's badge will await trial from home

[douglas9]

WASHINGTON (CN) — A New Yorker who has taken great lengths to distinguish himself from fellow insurrectionists jailed after storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 persuaded a federal judge Tuesday to grant him pretrial release.

"I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, which I think you've earned,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson told defendant Thomas Sibick at a hearing in Washington this morning. “Please understand, Mr. Sibick, that you will get only one chance."

Citing concern about the “toxic environment” in the Washington jail where Sibick has been held since his arrest in March, Jackson ordered the defendant's release to his parents' home in upstate New York while he awaits trial.

Defense attorneys described the efforts of their client in jail to separate himself from the so-called “Patriot Wing,” where about 40 men who tried to overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6 are alleged to be continually radicalizing each other, circulating a handwritten newsletter and singing the national anthem every night.



https://www.courthousenews.com/capitol-rioter-who-stole-officers-badge-will-await-trial-from-home/

[MagickMuffin]

1. They should be in solitary confinement like most traitors

Instead they are treated with the upmost honor.

WEIRD