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Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
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Lock Them Up! Lock The Swamp Up!
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Date: May 24, 2023 10:40AM
A Texas winery operator was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly seven years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol and joining an attack on the House chamber when police shot and killed another rioter.
Christopher Ray Grider also tried to cut power to the Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot — “a terrifying act of political and institutional sabotage,” according to prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Grider to six years and 11 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.
Grider, 41, joined the mob’s assault on the House chamber and helped another rioter break the Speaker’s Lobby’s glass doors, “setting in motion the chain of events” that led to an officer fatally shooting fellow rioter Ashli Babbitt, prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Christopher Ray Grider also tried to cut power to the Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot — “a terrifying act of political and institutional sabotage,” according to prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Grider to six years and 11 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.
Grider, 41, joined the mob’s assault on the House chamber and helped another rioter break the Speaker’s Lobby’s glass doors, “setting in motion the chain of events” that led to an officer fatally shooting fellow rioter Ashli Babbitt, prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
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Welfare Whites of Trump
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Date: May 24, 2023 10:40AM
This image from U.S. Capitol Police video, released and annotated by the Justice Department in the sentencing memo for Christopher Ray Grider, shows Grider, circled in yellow, entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. The Texas winery operator was sentenced on May 23, 2023, to nearly seven years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol and joining an attack on the House chamber when police shot and killed another rioter. Grider also tried to cut power to the Capitol building during the riot. (Justice Department via AP)
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This image from U.S. Capitol Police video, released and annotated by the Justice Department in the sentencing memo for Christopher Ray Grider, shows Grider, circled in yellow, entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. The Texas winery operator was sentenced on May 23, 2023, to nearly seven years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol and joining an attack on the House chamber when police shot and killed another rioter. Grider also tried to cut power to the Capitol building during the riot. (Justice Department via AP)
A Texas winery operator was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly seven years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol and joining an attack on the House chamber when police shot and killed another rioter.
Christopher Ray Grider also tried to cut power to the Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot — “a terrifying act of political and institutional sabotage,” according to prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Grider to six years and 11 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.
Grider, 41, joined the mob’s assault on the House chamber and helped another rioter break the Speaker’s Lobby’s glass doors, “setting in motion the chain of events” that led to an officer fatally shooting fellow rioter Ashli Babbitt, prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of seven years and three months for Grider.
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Grider pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts before going to trial on other charges. He testified at his December 2022 bench trial before Kollar-Kotelly decided the case without a jury and convicted him of seven charges, including civil disorder and obstructing the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Defense attorney Brent Mayr said Grider “truly regrets his actions on January 6 and apologizes to his family, his community, and most importantly, this country.” There is no evidence that Grider engaged in any violence at the Capitol, his lawyer noted.
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“This is a sad day,” Mayr wrote in an email after his client’s sentencing. “We respect the court’s consideration of all Chris did to try to make things right after January 6, but we are disappointed that his sentence is significantly longer than others who did so much worse than him.”
More than 1,000 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. Just over 500 of them have been sentenced, with more than half receiving terms of imprisonment ranging from a week to over 14 years. Only seven rioters have received longer prison sentences than Grider so far, according to an Associated Press review of court records.
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Also on Tuesday, a different judge sentenced a Proud Boys extremist group member from Rhode Island to two months of imprisonment for his role in the Jan. 6 riot. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden also sentenced Bernard Joseph Sirr to six months of home confinement and one year of probation, according to court records.
Sirr, 47, of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty in January to joining other rioters in a coordinated push against police officers guarding a tunnel entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace.
Prosecutors had sought a 10-month term of imprisonment for Sirr, a U.S. Army veteran who has worked as a reactor engineer at the Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center, where the state’s only nuclear reactor is located.
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Grider was a U.S. Air Force military police officer who guarded an air base after serving in the Army National Guard. More recently, he has operated a family-owned winery with his wife near Waco, Texas.
Grider and a friend flew to Washington, D.C., on the morning of Jan. 6. They missed then-President Trump’s speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally, but the two friends arrived in time to join the crowd of Trump supporters marching to the Capitol.
Outside the Capitol, Grider helped other rioters dismantle police barricades and picked up a discarded police helmet.
After entering the building, he approached a utility panel and tried in vain to cut power to the Capitol. He urged other rioters to join him as he marched toward the House chamber, shouting “We gotta get into the chamber! This way, this way, this way!””
Joining the mob’s attack on doors leading to the House, Grider pleaded with police officers to open the doors. Grider handed the helmet to another rioter, Zachary Alam, who used it to smash a pane on the Speaker’s Lobby’s glass doors, prosecutors said. A Capitol police lieutenant on the other side of the doors shot and killed Babbitt, an Air Force veteran from California, as she climbed through the opening.
“Despite witnessing the shooting, and instead of obeying the officers’ directives to leave the area, Grider lingered on for several minutes, interfering with police efforts to provide medical assistance to the wounded rioter and restore order to the area,” a prosecutor wrote in a court filing.
Alam was charged separately and has a jury trial scheduled to start on July 31.
Mayr said Grider “was not some fanatical, anti-social, antigovernment individual who dwelled upon or obsessed about coming to (Washington) to do harm and violence.”
“He was a productive, positive member of his community with a host of underlying issues and experiences that made him susceptible to being manipulated by a narcissist and false beliefs that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump,” Mayr wrote in a court filing.
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This image from U.S. Capitol Police video, released and annotated by the Justice Department in the sentencing memo for Christopher Ray Grider, shows Grider, circled in yellow, entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. The Texas winery operator was sentenced on May 23, 2023, to nearly seven years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol and joining an attack on the House chamber when police shot and killed another rioter. Grider also tried to cut power to the Capitol building during the riot. (Justice Department via AP)
A Texas winery operator was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly seven years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol and joining an attack on the House chamber when police shot and killed another rioter.
Christopher Ray Grider also tried to cut power to the Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot — “a terrifying act of political and institutional sabotage,” according to prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Grider to six years and 11 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.
Grider, 41, joined the mob’s assault on the House chamber and helped another rioter break the Speaker’s Lobby’s glass doors, “setting in motion the chain of events” that led to an officer fatally shooting fellow rioter Ashli Babbitt, prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of seven years and three months for Grider.
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Grider pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts before going to trial on other charges. He testified at his December 2022 bench trial before Kollar-Kotelly decided the case without a jury and convicted him of seven charges, including civil disorder and obstructing the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Defense attorney Brent Mayr said Grider “truly regrets his actions on January 6 and apologizes to his family, his community, and most importantly, this country.” There is no evidence that Grider engaged in any violence at the Capitol, his lawyer noted.
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“This is a sad day,” Mayr wrote in an email after his client’s sentencing. “We respect the court’s consideration of all Chris did to try to make things right after January 6, but we are disappointed that his sentence is significantly longer than others who did so much worse than him.”
More than 1,000 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. Just over 500 of them have been sentenced, with more than half receiving terms of imprisonment ranging from a week to over 14 years. Only seven rioters have received longer prison sentences than Grider so far, according to an Associated Press review of court records.
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Also on Tuesday, a different judge sentenced a Proud Boys extremist group member from Rhode Island to two months of imprisonment for his role in the Jan. 6 riot. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden also sentenced Bernard Joseph Sirr to six months of home confinement and one year of probation, according to court records.
Sirr, 47, of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty in January to joining other rioters in a coordinated push against police officers guarding a tunnel entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace.
Prosecutors had sought a 10-month term of imprisonment for Sirr, a U.S. Army veteran who has worked as a reactor engineer at the Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center, where the state’s only nuclear reactor is located.
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Grider was a U.S. Air Force military police officer who guarded an air base after serving in the Army National Guard. More recently, he has operated a family-owned winery with his wife near Waco, Texas.
Grider and a friend flew to Washington, D.C., on the morning of Jan. 6. They missed then-President Trump’s speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally, but the two friends arrived in time to join the crowd of Trump supporters marching to the Capitol.
Outside the Capitol, Grider helped other rioters dismantle police barricades and picked up a discarded police helmet.
After entering the building, he approached a utility panel and tried in vain to cut power to the Capitol. He urged other rioters to join him as he marched toward the House chamber, shouting “We gotta get into the chamber! This way, this way, this way!””
Joining the mob’s attack on doors leading to the House, Grider pleaded with police officers to open the doors. Grider handed the helmet to another rioter, Zachary Alam, who used it to smash a pane on the Speaker’s Lobby’s glass doors, prosecutors said. A Capitol police lieutenant on the other side of the doors shot and killed Babbitt, an Air Force veteran from California, as she climbed through the opening.
“Despite witnessing the shooting, and instead of obeying the officers’ directives to leave the area, Grider lingered on for several minutes, interfering with police efforts to provide medical assistance to the wounded rioter and restore order to the area,” a prosecutor wrote in a court filing.
Alam was charged separately and has a jury trial scheduled to start on July 31.
Mayr said Grider “was not some fanatical, anti-social, antigovernment individual who dwelled upon or obsessed about coming to (Washington) to do harm and violence.”
“He was a productive, positive member of his community with a host of underlying issues and experiences that made him susceptible to being manipulated by a narcissist and false beliefs that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump,” Mayr wrote in a court filing.
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
Posted by:
Judge Rudy
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Date: May 25, 2023 08:49AM
The guy deserves 25 years.
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
Posted by:
Real_American
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Date: May 25, 2023 11:27AM
Lock Them Up! Lock The Swamp Up! Wrote:
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You're antiWhite.
Everything you say is a lie.
You're evil subhuman garbage and will be killed for your crimes.
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You're antiWhite.
Everything you say is a lie.
You're evil subhuman garbage and will be killed for your crimes.
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
Posted by:
Real_American
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Date: May 25, 2023 11:27AM
Welfare Whites of Trump Wrote:
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You're antiWhite.
Everything you say is a lie.
You're evil subhuman garbage and will be killed for your crimes.
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You're antiWhite.
Everything you say is a lie.
You're evil subhuman garbage and will be killed for your crimes.
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
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Traitors to USA
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Date: May 25, 2023 11:36AM
Judge Rudy Wrote:
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> The guy deserves 25 years.
Agree, if these were ISIS or Taliban they would be in Gitmo right now being waterboarded.
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> The guy deserves 25 years.
Agree, if these were ISIS or Taliban they would be in Gitmo right now being waterboarded.
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
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3g3h43
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Date: June 01, 2023 01:46PM
Gerrymanderer2 (G2, the OP original poster or spammer just above, perhaps both) posts several lies on ffu daily - many think he's a fx co gov worker who is getting paid to do it for false DNC democrat "advertising". He floods ffu with useless posts to bump down major news, demoralize americans. G2 posts fecal matter, mutilated bodies, child porn, foreign drug ads and sneaker ads, tells people to kill themselves and government should seize them and put them on psych pills in prison without a trial - decided by DNC democrats gov workers, promotes kangaroo courthouse trials, gives anti-religious rants, gives satanic ritual rants, posts black males with large dicks on white young females, portends white low birth rate and fall of USA whites, suggestive of food tampering/poisoning to solve the white problem, and anything possible to demoralize any americans on ffu - all of which are fake news he never responds to proofs it is fake. (perhaps g2 is a chinese prisoner or isis member - but definitely knowledgeable of fx co gov from the inside at times). The website operator has told him "not to post or return" (in an existing post by the sysop): not because of a political leaning but for continual illegal and gross spam along with messages that are only to demoralize if not kill others. G2 plays at financial terrorism as well; continually reporting fake and false financial data. G2 fakes emergency pleas to deaden the real response to any real one - like a devil. G2 continually spams FFU - which all users complain of: it is a real DoS attack - the attacks are not just topic bumps but designed to inject key words to kill ffu and google search results. G2 continually promotes drug use, alcoholic experimentation, and tries to convince members to meet hookers using photos from the 1990's (i doubt any that did are not arrested or dead). G2 continually posts racist posts and gay posts egging others to comment - then attacks who does - AND RECORDS IT (likely for political extortion). G2 and dems MONITOR AND RECORD* "conservatives who blast out these democrat lies and illegal abuse of telephone privilege (sometimes in a raw manner, being so jaded by the job)" (users who object to G2's actions listed so far). One ffu member discovered a south american country recording FFU databasing all posts in a non-chat database format - and when questioned - another member quickly said it was all coincidence and that this was done everywhere in the world on all sites: WHICH IS A LIE. Not all countries record the every word of what fairfaxians say on blogs. Extortion is also mentioned by G2. And the idea he's fishing for comments he can use against anyone who'd run for office is "just assume he's in that business" - and i've warned others that is what he fishes for - excuses to attack conservatives and or to extort them.
SOME POSTERS ON FFU FEEL G2 IS A JOKER: I ASSURE YOU THE ABOVE COMPLAINTS ARE GENUINELY A THREAT TO ONLOOKERS (THE UN-INTIATED), NON-DEMOCRATS, AND TO ANYONE STATING THAT LAWS SHOULD BE IMPOSED ON DEMOCRATS EQUALLY AS DEMOCRATS IMPOSE THEM ON OTHERS: MONEY
LEGAL NOTICE: DEMOCRATS HAVE `SWATTED' THE HOMES OF SOME FFU POSTS WHO REFUTE G2 AND CALL DEMS OUT ON THEFT AND LIES - AND EXPOSE THE LAWS THEY COULD BE PROSECUTED FOR BREACH OF TRUST. THAT'S A CONFIRMED WITNESSED FACT. IT IS NO JOKE WHAT G2 IS DOING. HIS CONTINUAL FISHING IS NOT IDLE - THEY ARE TRIGGERED AND ARMED. which i've warned others about since, about 2010 - that G2 is fishing for men to "erase" politically, by any means available to him
G2 has now been wimpering that anti-G2 posts are "unfair" and that users who protest G2 should be blocked, SWATTED (see above), and forced on medications (see above), and that "someone else is G2". However - do not let the vicious foreign attacker fool you into your death our out of your community: G2 has been active since exactly the beginning of 2017 "hillary has already won the election" set of lies and has only DOUBLED spam recently - yes the suicide taunting of others, false information, and all else listed above. He is not wimpering for help he has doubled the spam and vicious attacks (or they, communist/facist using federal money. I pinned him correctly when I began this warning post.
DROP DEAD G2
GO BACK TO HELL G2. YOU ARE EXPOSED.
SOME POSTERS ON FFU FEEL G2 IS A JOKER: I ASSURE YOU THE ABOVE COMPLAINTS ARE GENUINELY A THREAT TO ONLOOKERS (THE UN-INTIATED), NON-DEMOCRATS, AND TO ANYONE STATING THAT LAWS SHOULD BE IMPOSED ON DEMOCRATS EQUALLY AS DEMOCRATS IMPOSE THEM ON OTHERS: MONEY
LEGAL NOTICE: DEMOCRATS HAVE `SWATTED' THE HOMES OF SOME FFU POSTS WHO REFUTE G2 AND CALL DEMS OUT ON THEFT AND LIES - AND EXPOSE THE LAWS THEY COULD BE PROSECUTED FOR BREACH OF TRUST. THAT'S A CONFIRMED WITNESSED FACT. IT IS NO JOKE WHAT G2 IS DOING. HIS CONTINUAL FISHING IS NOT IDLE - THEY ARE TRIGGERED AND ARMED. which i've warned others about since, about 2010 - that G2 is fishing for men to "erase" politically, by any means available to him
G2 has now been wimpering that anti-G2 posts are "unfair" and that users who protest G2 should be blocked, SWATTED (see above), and forced on medications (see above), and that "someone else is G2". However - do not let the vicious foreign attacker fool you into your death our out of your community: G2 has been active since exactly the beginning of 2017 "hillary has already won the election" set of lies and has only DOUBLED spam recently - yes the suicide taunting of others, false information, and all else listed above. He is not wimpering for help he has doubled the spam and vicious attacks (or they, communist/facist using federal money. I pinned him correctly when I began this warning post.
DROP DEAD G2
GO BACK TO HELL G2. YOU ARE EXPOSED.
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
Posted by:
3g3r5h5r34
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Date: June 01, 2023 01:47PM
G2 has tried to bribe the Webiste owner to block conservatives. Luckily the Website owner didn't agree.
G2 deserves death for using democrat money to continually print lies, satanism, and hide allegations of Republicans against law breaking Democrats ...
that while making blind accusations against republicans without ever stating any law that might have been broken
ROT IN HELL G2
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
Posted by:
Real_American
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Date: June 01, 2023 02:11PM
Traitors to USA Wrote:
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You're antiWhite.
Everything you say is a lie.
You're evil subhuman garbage and will be executed for your crimes.
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You're antiWhite.
Everything you say is a lie.
You're evil subhuman garbage and will be executed for your crimes.
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
Posted by:
Real_American
()
Date: June 01, 2023 02:12PM
3g3r5h5r34 Wrote:
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>GT
What's that?
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>GT
What's that?
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
Posted by:
Gay Now in JAil
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Date: June 02, 2023 09:46AM
These MAGA idiots keep thinking Trump will get elected again and they will all get pardoned. Nope
Re: Texas MAGA Man Get 7 1/2 Years for US Capitol Attack
Posted by:
Goole
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Date: June 05, 2023 08:41PM
LOL! Keep locking them up!