6 More People Connected To The Capitol Riot Plead Guilty

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NPR

By VANESSA ROMO

Six more people pleaded guilty on Friday to charges connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including a man who threatened to shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the head.

Cleveland Meredith Jr. missed the pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C., earlier this year, but stuck around long enough to tell family members that he planned to shoot Pelosi. He pleaded guilty to one count of interstate communication of threats.

According to court papers, Meredith sent a relative a text message saying he wanted to attend an event with Pelosi and put "a bullet in her noggin on Live TV." The relative contacted Meredith's mother, who got in touch with the FBI. Soon after, agents located Meredith in a downtown D.C. hotel, and found a handgun, rifle and 2,500 rounds of ammunition in his possession.

Meredith's sentencing is scheduled for December.


Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1036149342/6-more-people-connected-to-the-capitol-riot-plead-guilty

[Walleye]

1. They should at least put him in jail for violating DC's gun laws

[3Hotdogs]

4. Nah. His was a serious offense. At the rate sentences and plea bargains are going,

he'll be sentenced to three days of cleaning dog poo out of the doggy park.

[gab13by13]

5. Hope he is allowed to attend the "rally"

next Saturday that is being held to call him a patriot. Maybe he will give a speech at that rally?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Only 2,500 rounds. :eyes: That's for mass shooting as well as assassination. . . . nt

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Sounds dangerous to me, not a genie to put back in the bottle

IMHO authorities had best think long and hard about monitoring, deterrence, public safety.

[gab13by13]

6. Deter? How do you deter a rabid dog?

Have you ever had conversations with Magats?

[NQAS]

7. All of those misdemeanors

New laws should be passed converting the crimes now classified as misdemeanors for disruptive behavior in the Capitol and on Capitol ground to felonies. And those crimes should carry minimum, no plea deal, sentences of 10 years. Or more depending on the crime.

[The Jungle 1]

8. Put them in jail and take away their right to vote forever.

This was treason.

[gab13by13]

10. Take away their guns

[The Jungle 1]

11. Yup I agree

[Lucky Luciano]

9. Sure why not - they know it's only gonna be a slap on the wrist.

They all deserve 20 hard years in Florence supermax in solitary coming out with maximum PTSD.

[Rebl2]

16. Better yet

Guantanamo

[Champp]

12. Republican traitors to America deserve justice

At least these clowns had the decency to admit how stupidly, fatally, sickeningly violent and unPatriotic their Republican assault on the USA was. Now lock the traitors up.

[rickford66]

13. Can he take his vacation in Mexico first ?

[Bengus81]

14. Of course they're pleading guility. They want their wrist slap and they want it NOW

So they can get back to business as usual for those hate filled,racist,Trump humping POS.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. "2,500 rounds of ammunition"

WTF was he going to do with all that ammo? Walk into Statuary Hall and do a "Rambo"?

[truthisfreedom]

18. And how many trips to the car did it take to haul it up

To the hotel room?

[BumRushDaShow]

19. This reminded me of what it took with the Las Vegas shooter

and the "dozens of weapons" that he had in his hotel room - https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/mandalay-bay-staff-interacted-with-las-vegas-shooter-more-than-10-times-in-days-before-oct-1/

Apparently employees helped him haul it all up there in suitcases and may have even seen the weapons in the room the few times they did manage to go in there before he put the "do not disturb" sign up.

That guy fired off some 1,100 rounds as it is (with 4,000 unused rounds still in the room) - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-shooting-stephen-paddock-gunman-fired-over-1100-rounds-sheriff-says/



The irony here is that before I retired, I had a coworker who had been in the Army and then the Army Reserve before retiring from the military, and she would tell me that when she would do their "once a months" and the once a year (I think) 2-week summer training, they were chronically told that there was an "ammunition shortage", and had to curtail some of their firearms exercises. So our own military could barely get what they needed to train yet the yahoos had no problem hoarding up on all kinds of stuff.

[marble falls]

17. They're pleading because they're getting slaps on the hands. The sentences are too light.

[ck4829]

20. K&R