Conservatives demand ‘J6 treatment’ for Dem officials who barged into facility
Conservatives are calling for the Trump Justice Department to administer the “January 6th treatment” to House Democrats who violently tried to barge their way into a New Jersey detention facility last week.
On Friday, New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson-Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Rob Menendez converged on Delaney Hall, a detention facility in Newark housing criminal illegal aliens. Joined by Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, they demanded access to the facility to conduct “oversight.” They were denied entry by security, so they waited until the gates were opened to admit a vehicle transporting detainees and pushed past security. A clash ensued as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents attempted to prevent the Democrat officials from entering and acted to secure the facility.
The officials later claimed that they had been “roughed up” and assaulted by the federal agents, but bodycam footage showed the opposite was true.
“NEW: DHS has provided @FoxNews ICE bodycam video from the altercation at the Delaney Hall detention facility yesterday,” Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin posted on X. “They say the video clearly shows @RepLaMonica (red clothing) shoving/elbowing her way past a DHS agent to get past the gate and into the property, followed behind by @RepMenendez & that it also shows Congresswoman McIver screaming in the faces of DHS agents.”
Mayor Baraka had also protested in front of the facility earlier in the week by having a bulldozer block the entrance. He was arrested on Friday for trespassing.
[In]justice served
Many netizens are now calling for Baraka and the other Democrat officials to receive similar legal treatment as the January 6th defendants who trespassed on Capitol grounds. Those protesters received unusual sentencing and punishment. America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) founder Dr. Simone Gold, for example, was sentenced to prison for 60 days even though a first-time trespassing misdemeanor is never punished with prison time. Dr. Gold had pleaded guilty after being threatened by the DOJ with 20 years in prison for violating §1512 (c )(2), which prohibits obstructing or attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. The law was created in the wake of the 2001 Enron scandal when employees at the Arthur Andersen accounting firm illegally destroyed documents related to an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The DOJ had successfully intimidated many J6 defendants into pleading guilty by threatening them with this charge, but the US Supreme Court effectively ended that maneuver last year. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled in Fischer v. USA that the law applies to cases of evidence tampering, not taxpayers who peacefully protest. The decision brought freedom for J6 political prisoners incarcerated under §1512 (c )(2). AFLDS Creative Director John Strand, for instance, was released after a year in prison, including four months in solitary confinement, for peacefully trespassing on Capitol grounds. Even after the Supreme Court ruling, then-DC US Attorney Matthew Graves continued trying to use §1512 (c )(2) to intimidate J6 defendants.
Now those persecuted by the Biden administration are calling for the same “justice” to be meted out to the Democrat officials involved in Friday’s scuffle.
“I was an elected official who stormed the Capitol because they stole the election from President Trump & installed the illegitimate Biden regime,” Derrick Evans wrote on X. “I went to prison. Democrats stormed an ICE facility to defend T3rrorists & foreign invaders of our country. SEND THEM TO PRISON.”
“Democrat members of Congress and the City of Newark mayor have been arrested for breaking into an ICE facility!” wrote David Medina. “I did far less on J6 and was arrested & had my house raided. No one is above the law! Prosecute ALL OF THEM!”
Ryan Nichols, a retired US Marine who spent 20 months in pretrial detention for attending the January 6th protest, responded to a tweet by House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) alleging that criminal illegal aliens are being denied due process.
“Hey @RepJeffries, preaching about ‘due process’ while your pal LaMonica McIver is out here shoving ICE agents on camera?” wrote Nichols. “That’s rich. You Dems love to play victim after breaking the law—classic entrapment excuse! I’d know, I’m Ryan Nichols, a J6 defendant with receipts to prove feds play dirty. You wanna talk Constitution? Start with your own crew—McIver’s tantrum violated 18 U.S. Code § 111, assault on a federal officer. That’s a felony, Hakeem. Where’s her due process now? Stop crying ‘oversight’ when you’re just dodging accountability. America sees through the act—drop the mask!”
AJ Sheff wrote: “They attempted an insurrection against ice, they attacked police officers, they attempted to break criminals out of jail. Public office holders did this. And we are supposed to be mad that ice responded by arresting them? Meanwhile, they were totally fine with indefinitely holding J6ers without trial. Clowns.”
Fox News contributor Paul Mauro expressed a similar sentiment: “The officials who broke into a federalized ICE holding facility trespassed on federal land. Charge them with the same charges the J6 demonstrators were charged with and treat them the same. The law is the law.”
“The very charges that 95% of J6 defendants where charged with specifically apply in this case and they MUST be charged and sentenced in a similar manner,” said Red White and True News. “Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds Without Lawful Authority (18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1)): This charge applies to individuals who knowingly entered or remained in a restricted area, such as the U.S. Capitol or its grounds, without permission. A restricted area includes zones cordoned off or protected by the Secret Service, like where Vice President Mike Pence was present on January 6, 2021.
“Disorderly or Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds (18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(2)): This charge targets individuals who engaged in disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted area with the intent to impede or disrupt government business or official functions.”
