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Botany

(70,424 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 09:45 AM Mar 2022

Off-duty Virginia officer who stormed US Capitol pleads guilty, is cooperating with DOJ

(CNN)An off-duty police officer from Virginia who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of conspiracy, after striking a plea deal with the Justice Department and agreeing to cooperate against a police colleague who was also charged.

Jacob Fracker, a former officer for the Rocky Mount Police Department, faces a maximum sentence of five years behind bars for the felony, though it's unlikely he will receive the statutory maximum. He and his colleague -- and co-defendant -- Thomas Robertson were both fired from the police department after their involvement in the riot became public.

Robertson is scheduled to go to trial later this year. He has pleaded not guilty to the four counts against him, including obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony.

The development of Fracker's cooperation against his onetime colleague and friend is a big victory for prosecutors, who have previously described Robertson as a dangerous criminal who is interested in fomenting political violence.



Officers Jacob & Thomas breaking the law on 1/6/21. Officer Jacob has now rolled on Officer Thomas.

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Off-duty Virginia officer who stormed US Capitol pleads guilty, is cooperating with DOJ (Original Post) Botany Mar 2022 OP
These dumbass's even photographed themselves in statuary hall! Omnipresent Mar 2022 #1
I don't want to stereotype but ex-officer Jacobs sure looks like a red neck. Botany Mar 2022 #2
Their one moment of fame PatSeg Mar 2022 #4
Lock em up. How many like minded police officers like these are on active employment? L. Coyote Mar 2022 #3
What's with the finger? Is he telling us he is number one? Emile Mar 2022 #5

Botany

(70,424 posts)
2. I don't want to stereotype but ex-officer Jacobs sure looks like a red neck.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 10:03 AM
Mar 2022

This attack on the US Capitol was much more planned then "they" are trying to sell.

You had 2 groups go to the Capitol on 1/6/21. Group #1 which was most of them generalized
thugs to cause confusion and violence and then more trained groups of active or retired police,
fire fighters, and military who were looking to steal the certified electoral ballots so they could
stop the certification of Joe Biden as POTUS and it just so happened that Rudy G, Stone, and so
on had a bunch of made up electoral ballots with which they wanted to replace the stolen ones
with. @ least that is my

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