Quote (Goomshill @ Jul 14 2022 12:26am)
The NYT doesn't answer the fundamental question of how he can be the single most visible insurrectionist, crossing the barricades, participating in the violence and coordinating the riot- and not get charged.
Saying "he talked to the FBI" isn't an answer to that. Nor is pretending he was 'calling for calm' while he was so blatantly trying to agitate the crowd that the crowd was dismissing him as a glowie.
The standard for prosecuting everyone else has been far far lower. Including people who weren't even involved in the riot, people who weren't even present.
If he's not an FBI informant / paid operative / agent provocateur, then he clearly deserves to be prosecuted for instigating a riot. Attacking police, riling up a crowd, telling them to go into the capitol? If anyone's singular conduct holds any of the diffuse responsibility for the people who died that day, it would be him. And why would the NYT and rest of the liberal media be throwing in their support behind one of the insurrectionists in the first place? They've called for people to be prosecuted for conspiracy to overthrow the government, and he's on video actively conspiring to overthrow the government, so what is it, is he an insurrectionist or is he a glowie?
They do answer it though...
"But scores, if not hundreds, of people who appear to have committed minor crimes that day were investigated by the F.B.I. but have not been charged or taken into custody. Mr. Epps said that he had acted stupidly at times when he and one of his sons took a last-minute trip to Washington for Mr. Trump’s speech about election fraud. But he said that he had managed to avoid arrest because he reached out to the F.B.I. within minutes of discovering that agents wanted to speak with him."
"Mr. Epps further acknowledged that while he moved past barricades into a restricted area of the Capitol grounds, he did not go into the building itself. The vast majority of those who did not enter the building or commit additional crimes have not been charged. By the time the violence started spreading, Mr. Epps had already left the Capitol, having helped to get a sick protester to safety."
The people who were charged outside the Capitol were people who assaulted police officers, committed acts of vandalism, etc. You of all people should know that if you cooperate early on, the authorities are much less likely to press charges. For someone who complains how often negro criminals are released, you seem SHOCKED that the DOJ would exercise prosecutorial discretion lol. You'd be the first person to start crying about someone like Epps being prosecuted because you're a "civil libertarian."
Also, LOL at Epps being the "single most visible insurrectionist." Maybe that's true now because conspiracy theorists keep focusing on him, but that's obviously not the case given that you had "zip tie guy," "QAnon shaman," "guy in Pelosi's office," "lectern thief," etc.