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LiberalArkie

(15,722 posts)
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 12:59 PM Jan 2021

'No Regrets': A Capitol Rioter Tells His Story From Inside

January 12, 2021, 5:00 AM CST


Brandon Fellows had never attended a Trump rally before last week. He said he was motivated to drive to Washington after seeing a tweet from the president. “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” President Donald Trump wrote on Dec. 19. “Be there, will be wild!”

Fellows didn’t know about a planned march that would eventually overtake the U.S. Capitol. He said he had simply come to see Trump give a speech.


But within hours of watching Trump’s speech, Fellows had his feet propped up on a table in the office of a U.S. Senator, smoking a joint. He roamed the halls of the Capitol, heckled police officers and posted videos along the way on Snapchat.

“I have no regrets,” said Fellows, a 26-year-old former grocery store worker from upstate New York who now makes money cutting trees and repairing chimneys. “I didn’t hurt anyone, I didn’t break anything. I did trespass though, I guess.”

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-12/-no-regrets-a-capitol-rioter-tells-his-story-from-inside?sref=9YK1BnKg

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MagickMuffin

(15,949 posts)
3. FBI here's another confessor Brandon Fellows
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:04 PM
Jan 2021

He has no regrets so do your thang

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK: open up it's the FBI and we're here to take you away for interrogation of taking pat in trying to over throw our government.


Hav

(5,969 posts)
4. I'll be mad if these fuckers don't even spend a year in prison
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:05 PM
Jan 2021

But he looks like someone who will be popular in prison.

LiberalArkie

(15,722 posts)
6. More important is what will be on his record if he tries to get a good job and fails his background
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:36 PM
Jan 2021

check.

JT45242

(2,282 posts)
5. Let's see if you have regrets when you get out of prison at twice your current age...
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:10 PM
Jan 2021

They are so fond of the 'were we go one, we go all" --

Let's all go to prison for very lengthy terms. You are liable for felony murder -- multiple counts -- because the crime is attached to everyone along with the underlying felonies of entering the capitol building. Throw in some drug charges, sedition, etc. The first you should be eligible for parole should not be for a very very long time.

If this a-hole sees the outside of a prison before he is 40, then the justice department has failed us.



RANDYWILDMAN

(2,673 posts)
9. Sounds like a winner ! ready for prison ?
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:33 PM
Jan 2021

Doubt it.

This kids needs to read the definition of sedition over and over until he understands.

Trespassing, I guess...LOSER

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