A New Jersey electrician who repeatedly attacked police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison by a judge who called him “a menace to our society.”
Christopher Joseph Quaglin argued with and insulted U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden before and after the judge handed him one of the longest prison sentences among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.
“You’re Trump’s worst mistake of 2016,” Quaglin told McFadden, who was nominated to the court by then-President Donald Trump in 2017.
“What an outrage. What a disgrace,” the judge said.
Quaglin complained about his jail conditions and pushed conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 siege during his rambling remarks in the courtroom. He also took issue with labeling the Jan. 6 attack as an insurrection.
Quaglin complained about his jail conditions
I absolutely love how republicans all think prisons are insufficiently cruel, then suddenly become prison abolitionists, but only for Trump and Jan 6ers.
Like nah they’re treating you with kiddy gloves. People got decades for non-violent crimes during the George Floyd protests.
Trump, the guy who said that police should rough up people they arrest, can’t take the temperature of the courtroom (which isn’t even cold). He complains about it constantly.
But prisons are supposed to be cruel?
This is what happens when your political ideology is rooted entirely in “us vs. them” beliefs.
Prisons are where our perfect American justice system sends bad people so that they can be rightfully punished. The more cruelty, the better the prison. If you didn’t want to lose your rights and humanity, you shouldn’t have committed crimes.
Unless it’s me going to prison, in which case you should respect my rights and my humanity. Unlike them, I had a good reason for doing what I did, and you should respect that and let me do whatever I want.
Who got decades for non-violent crimes during BLM protests? Do you have names/sources?
I’m certain I saw something about someone getting 10+ years for burning police cars back in 2020, but I can’t find it.
I could be misremembering and it was just the prosecutor asking for it, or google could just be complete shit now.
Ok serious question, what part of arson seems non-violent to you? And I can find you an example of two individuals who threw moltovs at a NYPD Van, They both pled out to less than 2 years.
Rule one of court- don’t piss off the judge.
Dumbass.
conservatism is a mental disease.
“You’re Trump’s worst mistake of 2016,” Quaglin told McFadden, who was nominated to the court by then-President Donald Trump in 2017.
Same amount of attention to detail and grasp of readily available facts as his Dear Leader, I see…
It’s actually pretty funny. I saw a video recently where someone asked Republicans who was president in 2016. Almost all of them answered “Trump”.
Trump became president on 1/20/2017.
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/8
4 U.S. Code § 8 - Respect for flag
(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.
I mean, there’s no punishment for it, but…
Honestly I’d be happy if there was punishment for it. Assholes running around screaming about the flag should be called to the table on defacing it.
I’m pretty sure that only counts for remaking a literal flag into one of those things, not clothes, bedding, or drapery designed to look like one.
Silly distinction, I know, but that’s how it usually goes in that FUBAR “justice” system…
People burn the flag, and I think most of us feel we should have the right to burn it even if we personally find it distasteful. (I think I’ve said that exact same thing before to people on the right about folks on the left.) These people are assholes and criminals, but let’s apply the law equally to all. I wouldn’t endorse punishing someone on the left for disrespecting the flag, so I wouldn’t endorse it for someone on the right. We’ve caught them committing actual crimes, and that’s sufficient for me.
Just like the Second Amendment, there was no possible way for our ancestors to foresee the multitudinous manners of future flag disrespect.
That’s not true. Abraham Lincoln designed the flag specifically to prevent it from being disrespected. The color choices make it physically impossible to defecate on.
