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BHM: That doesn't justify harsh treatment for 60 year old tourists from Poughkeepsie just walking through the halls.

Do you have an actual case to prove your point? The data say differently:

The Intercept’s analysis sharply contradicts that right-wing narrative. In many cases, judges have rejected prosecutors’ requests for prison time, often reducing defendants’ sentences to home detention or probation. Defendants have been sentenced to standard prison terms in only 429 out of 719 cases, or 60 percent. Another 31 defendants were sentenced to intermittent incarceration, meaning they only had to serve time on nights or weekends. Home detention was given instead of prison in 101 cases, while defendants in 135 cases got probation.

Interestingly, Biden appointed judges handed down the most lenient sentences, closely followed by Bush judges. Trump judges handed down the harshest sentences.

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/05/january-6-case...

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