We're taking that s-- today!: Rioter seen tossing police barricade, confronting cops during Jan 6 attack gets prison time
Source: Law & Crime
Oct 8th, 2024, 11:31 am
A Minnesota man seen tossing a police barricade over a wall during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will himself have to spend half a year behind bars.
Paul Orta Jr., 34, of Blue Earth — a city near the southern border of the state, some 120 miles away from Minneapolis — had traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend Donald Trump’s so-called “Stop the Steal” rally, planned for Jan. 6. But he landed on law enforcement’s radar even before that: prosecutors say that Orta was one of four people on a privately-owned school bus that had been flagged to Maryland police the day before the rally.
The driver and owner of the bus were eventually arrested after firearms and ammunition were found on the bus, but Orta was searched and released by police twice — first by officers in Maryland on Jan. 5, and later that day in downtown Washington, D.C., by Capitol police.
It is unclear if Orta attended Trump’s rally — during which the then-president urged thousands of his supporters to “fight like hell” against the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral win — on Jan. 6, but by around 1 p.m. that day, he had joined a crowd of rioters that had begun to overwhelm police at the Peace Circle monument.
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Full headline: ‘We’re taking that s— today!’: Rioter seen tossing police barricade, confronting cops during Jan. 6 attack gets prison time
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This case was not presided over by either Judge Howell or Chutkan and so this miscreant received half what the prosecutors sought. Too bad. Either way, this young man threw his life away. The internet is forever and technically so is his federal conviction. He'll never be gainfully employed in the US again unless another MAGAt gives him a job when he gets out.
And thanks for posting, BRDS.
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