Thread by @SkinnerPm

And people say there’s not at least two justice systems. Charge them all. If you entered the building through a smashed window or busted door, you trespassed on the most federal of federal properties. Or is accountability & deterrence only for minorities and the poor? I give up.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1353045813463801857

It’s a gut punch to investigate violent crimes with no resources in my hometown with my neighbors to send a message that we won’t tolerate these crimes & then see the Fed govt with infinite more resources not see the need to send a message that WE won’t tolerate the Capitol riot

There is no excuse not to prosecute everyone who committed these crimes. There are two systems of justice in our country. Has been since the beginning. I hate it. That’s why I so badly want more support for public defenders. We don’t have to be this way. So let’s not be this way.

Don’t want to burden the court system? Expand it for these cases. Cuz it was AN ATTACK ON THE US CAPITOL. Don’t want to prosecute misdemeanors? Not even at THE US CAPITOL? Then quit & find someone who will. Then toss every single misdemeanor arrest cuz you show nothing matters

Worried about the wrong kind of people having a record? REALLY? But what about all the tough talk about your war on crime? I see, not now...I think we are an insanely over-criminalized society. But you don’t get a pass storming the US Capitol. Or you do & our rot becomes complete

We all matter or none of us do. And that includes who gets charged & prosecuted.

I mean it’s not like we created an entire illegal torture penal colony called GITMO that has never prosecuted anyone for 9/11 but sure, no way we can set up a temporary completely legal & fair system to handle the murderous insurrection at the US CAPITOL. That would be difficult

We don’t take this assault on our US Capitol seriously, where the former President & current members of Congress urged it on, then I’ll go to stupid law school at whatever age and become a debt-ravaged public defender and get as many of my neighbors out from charges as possible.

We all matter or none of us do. In everything or else in nothing.