The Justice Department’s renewed focus to beat the clock on Jan. 6 prosecutions added concerns of waste to the cries of politicization.
An example of government efficiency at its finest, nearly four years after the U.S. Capitol was breached, the DOJ appeared to suggest a lack of priority in their arrests. According to a report from NBC News, now, ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, they intend to focus on the “most egregious” Jan. 6 offenders.
The victory for the once and future president came with the promise of ending political persecutions by the federal government and the intent to “make pardon decisions on a case-by-case basis” for defendants and the convicted alike.
Acknowledging a tight deadline before Jan. 20, 2025, NBC News detailed that federal prosecutors in the DOJ’s Capitol Siege Section were instructed to oppose delay requests from defendants and, with regard to new arrests, “focus on the most egregious conduct and cases until the end of the administration.”
“We didn’t spend the last four years tracking these criminals down just to have dozens of them avoid prosecution because half of the country are f—–g morons,” said one individual described as an “online sleuth” who’d aided the FBI in tracking down people present at the Capitol in 2021. “Our work continues, as should the DOJ’s.”
“Just over 1 per day,” said another as it was noted there were 75 people wanted for felonies that had yet to be arrested while the Justice Department had rounded up individuals whose greatest offense was entering the building.”Place your bets!”
Promptly following Trump’s win over Vice President Kamala Harris, motions to delay hearings were submitted with the intent to seek presidential pardon’s after the inauguration, only to be denied by the court.
Adding to questions as to why the suspects alleged to have committed felonies hadn’t already been the priority of the Justice Department, a former assistant U.S. attorney from the DOJ’s Capitol Siege Section leaned into the narrative when speaking with NBC News.
“You spend any amount of time understanding what hell the police officers went through and watching the body-worn cameras where you stand in their shoes and you see people physically assaulting them and taking cheap shots at them and hitting them from behind, and using racial slurs against them, for hours and hours as they stood there and tried to protect the Capitol and people inside it, and the cases become about the victims,” the outlet was told. “So the idea that people who committed those crimes against those victims, people who assaulted those officers, would be pardoned, we just really hope people are thinking twice before doing that.”
“The idea that the most powerful person in the country says it’s OK, it’s OK to the person who sprayed them with bear spray, or hit them with a hockey stick, or drag them down steps, or, in the case of Michael Fanone, Tased them in the neck and caused them to have a heart attack, or, in the case of Daniel Hodges, trap them in between doors and continue to squeeze them in between doors … while Hodges was screaming for his life, that part of it is, it’s so wretched,” the spiel continued.
Reactions to the report from those not ravenous to see Jan. 6 defendants locked up with their keys thrown away remained incredulous that the federal government had wasted time chasing down misdemeanors from unthreatening “grandparents” during nearly four years of making examples out of American citizens.
4 years later and you’re just now “arresting the ‘most egregious’ Jan. 6 rioters”. Who the hell has been getting arrested all this time?
— Token The Green (@TokerTheGreen) November 9, 2024
Its been 3 1/2 years and they are now sprinting over the last 72 days to get the most egregious rioters? This whole thing strikes of incompetence
— It is time (@johnflat) November 9, 2024
Should they have started there?
Grandmas taking selfies were first I guess.— Randall (@nonbiologist) November 9, 2024
Seems like a waste of time and dollars as they will just be pardoned.
— banderzz678 (@Carolyn1216) November 9, 2024
It’s taken 4 years??? Seriously this is political persecution. Many are rotting in prison without even a trial yet.
— Jeanine Hansen (@PatriotJeanine) November 9, 2024
4 years and they still don’t have the “most egreious”? To busy I guess saving us from those grandparents with misdemeanors instead.
— M P (@MPstormday) November 9, 2024
So you’re telling me after all this time there were violent offenders did they haven’t focused on while they chase some others that were just trespassing
— Dale K Combs (@dkcombs55) November 9, 2024
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