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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Two-tier justice system? Absolutely. Joe Biggs, a member of the Proud Boys who dared to shake a fence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has just been sentenced to seventeen years in prison for doing so. And on Friday, a leftist thug named Shannon Brandt was also sentenced. Brandt ran over and killed a teenager, Cayler Ellingson, because he thought Ellingson was a “Republican extremist.” For that, Brandt will serve five years in prison, minus almost a year that he has already served under house arrest. It would be fitting if Brandt and Biggs could be sentenced to the same prison, so that Brandt could say goodbye to Biggs when he gets freed and thank his lucky stars that another “Republican extremist” is safely behind bars.
Fargo, N.D.’s KVRR reported that after Brandt completes his ridiculously light sentence, or whatever portion of it he actually does serve before some leftist judge springs him, “he will then serve a period of supervised release.” Presumably, this will include supervision while he is driving, in case any other “Republican extremists” dare to venture out onto the streets while this maniac is behind the wheel.
Brandt, according to KVRR, was “initially charged with intentional homicide in the case,” which was altogether fitting and proper, as it was based upon “a state trooper’s report that Brandt and Ellingson had gotten in a political argument which escalated.” However, “that report was later discounted, but not before conservative political figures, including former President Donald Trump, and some media outlets seized on it to advance a narrative of left-wing violence.”
Why was this report discounted? Was that decision also politically motivated? After all, court documents note that “Brandt stated that the pedestrian called some people and Brandt was afraid they were coming to get him. Brandt admitted to State Radio that he hit the pedestrian and that the pedestrian was part of a Republican extremist group.” That certainly sounds like left-wing violence, unless you’re a fellow leftist who wants to pretend that this sort of thing doesn’t happen. “The State Medical Examiner’s Office,” KVRR continues, “later concluded it was an accident and that Brandt was trying to escape a confrontation with Ellingson when he ran him over.”
What a coincidence, that Brandt would be involved in an accident involving someone with whom he had just had a political argument. Brandt’s attorney, Mark Friese, insists that his man “stayed on the scene” after hitting Ellingson, but according to a Sept. 2022 report in Fox News, Brandt fled the scene. If that is accurate, it is odd behavior if the whole thing was an accident. Why wouldn’t he stick around, so as to emphasize that he was horrified at the accident, sorry that it happened, and ready as a good citizen to take responsibility?
Even worse, State’s Attorney Kara Brinster “alleged that Brandt’s statements to investigators didn’t align with the evidence in the case and that he didn’t take sufficient accountability for Ellingson’s death.” Nevertheless, she was responsible for the slap on the wrist Brandt has received, as she “requested five years incarceration with credit for time-served and three years of supervised release.” Good thing he just killed a patriot with his car and then may have left the scene; Brandt didn’t have the poor judgment to do something serious, like shake a fence.
The light sentence Brandt received was partly based on the fact that he was diagnosed with autism, “which the experts said impacted his ability to interpret social situations and prompted an exaggerated reaction and response to the confrontation with Ellingson.” But wait a minute: if the whole thing is supposed to be an accident, what “exaggerated reaction and response” did Brant have after his “confrontation with Ellingson”? He was also drinking.
Judge Bradley Cruff didn’t explain that anomaly as he addressed Brandt: “You didn’t intentionally run him over. I acknowledge that. I understand what the experts in this case are saying about how your mind works. And you didn’t intentionally kill Cayler. But he did die. And that’s a result of your alcohol consumption. You recklessly pushed Cayler to the ground with your SUV, you recklessly ran him over, and you recklessly killed him.” That’s an awful lot of recklessness to be an accident. Ellingson’s mother “asked Cruff not to follow the plea agreement and to give Brandt the maximum sentence for manslaughter, which is ten years,” but to no avail.
Brandt addressed the courtroom, professing to be full of contrition and saying, among other things, “I am truly devastated by the impact this has had on the entire community.” And he wasn’t even talking about the impact of our two-tier justice system.
None of the J6ers will make it out of prison. They are almost daily being denied medications, starved, beaten. Guards daily tell the inmates they will be murdered in their sleep. Reports of being sleep deprived, buckets of cold water thrown onto their bedding.
Nobody cares. Not a single Republican has even attempted to check on them in months.
Disgraceful.
Marjorie Taylor Green and a few others have visited – most notably Julie Kelly – the author who’s been documenting the Jan 6th patriots and the 3rd world conditions that you pointed out.
(Imagine Democrat reactions if jihadists at Gitmo got a fraction of that treatment.)
Good point.
I’m sick & tired of fools like Romney incanting the “every Jan 6th person who engaged in violence needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!”
I have an answer for that.
The number is ZERO.
The Jan 6th Patriots were lured in, attacked, and set up.
The number of DC pricks, AntiFa, & BLM that need to be prosecuted . . . 1000 would be a good start, starting with that bitch Pelosi & her insider trading husband.
I’ve been angry from the beginning about the definition that the leftist gave the trespassers. Real insurrection would have had weapons to crush the anti-constitutionalists. I use this term with restraint.
Trump had a number one hit singing with them but it wasn’t recognised
Cold blooded murder sanctioned by the DemoNazi Party. They know like their forebearers in the Nazi Party that the law bends to their will and can be used to justify anything.
That is a chilling concept to comprehend. We are witnessing the Nazification of our Justice System.
Before September 1st 1939, the DNC and Nazis were talking shop with each other and exchanging love notes.
The Nazis added “Socialist” to their party name as a direct result of DNC influence.
When WWII kicked off, the DNC knew they had to put severe distance between them and their prior BFF, and (with help from media & academia) told the Big Lie – that the Nazis were “right wing”.
Brandt is a big guy but I could fuck him up and I would if I ever encountered him.
I wonder about the jury that sentenced this monster to five years in prison. What sort of values do they embrace? How do they weigh life? How do they evaluate evidence? Truly they do not inhabit the same world as we do.
Justice? I have served on three juries and believe me I doubt the sanity, morality, and good sense of most people.
I’ve got two orders to be a juror recently. I ignored both of them. I think I would snap off if I had to be around the people you describe, which is what I already assume most jurors are.
Twelve Angry Men? I would be one angry man whipping ass.
Our legal and criminal justice system is a corrupt sham.
It sounds like you’d make a poor juror, if you have anger issues.
The way I look at jury duty, would I rather have someone who cares about what little justice system we have left sitting in that box if I were on trial, or some crackhead working for jury pay?
So I’ve done jury duty, and will do so again if called.
“ I understand what the experts in this case are saying “
Experts who were paid to discover what the payer wanted.
Breaking news: A new scientific study shows that scientists discover what they are paid to discover.
I think a better contrast would be James Fields sentenced to 419 years for running over a woman as he was trying to escape mob violence in Charlottesville.
I was told he deliberately targeted her, but then again, I was told officer Sicknick was murdered by a Jan 6th protestor.
If it was accidental,, as you say, I wouldn’t be the least surprised.
Afterall; the incident in Charlottesville was set up by authorities. The cops were told to stand down & let AntiFa scum have a blank check to engage in mischief.
Not to mention the kinetic impact he had on Mr. Ellingson. I’m so glad a politicized two-tier justice system is just a “conspiracy theory.”
Then like that Couple in St. Louis they arrest you and put you on trial for using Firearm against Trespassers who broke through a gate Thats Justice under the Liberal Democ-Rats
WE’ve never really had a justice system; not since this or that was declared precedent. I compare jury trials to tango contests. Guilt or innocence mean nothing. It’s which lawyer does the best tango before the jury: the prosecution. or the defense.
It is also a matter of money. The well off can afford to get this or that lab test run to confirm or refute state’s evidence where some poor slob with a bus bench lawyer or a public defendant cannot.
Even if found innocent, the average Joe or Joette is now six or even seven figured in debt, and with no recourse even if the prosecution was malicious.
Tucker Carlson calls it laws for thee, but not for me — but what it really is happens to be what is called a Title of nobility that our Constitution explicitly forbids. This murder of the lawyers political debate opponent and his obnoxious “contrition” is reminiscent of that D.W. Griffin movie, “Orphans of the Storm” == especially the scene where some French nobleman runs over a peasant with his horse carriage and then asks if the “horses are hurt.”
“Socialism is the feudalism of the future,” anonymous.
“Scratch a Marxist and you get a medievalist.”