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After the riot, Dempsey returned to California, where he was eventually arrested. In early 2024, he pleaded #guilty to 2 #felony counts of assaulting an officer with a dangerous #weapon. He was sentenced to 20 years in #prison.
#Jan6 #NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
I [Goldberg] particularly remember those plastic cuffs, but I understood them only as a performance of zealous commitment. Later we would learn that these men—some of whom were #ProudBoys — believed that they would actually be arresting members of #Congress in “defense” of the #Constitution. I interviewed one of them. “It’s all in the Bible,” he said. “Everything is predicted. Donald #Trump is in the Bible.” Grifters could not exist, of course, without a population primed to be grifted.
After the riot, Dempsey returned to California, where he was eventually arrested. In early 2024, he pleaded #guilty to 2 #felony counts of assaulting an officer with a dangerous #weapon. He was sentenced to 20 years in #prison.
#Jan6 #NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower