HAPPENING NOW: Sentencing for #CaptiolRiot defendant Valerie Ehrke, who was in Capitol for only about a minute before being pushed out by cops. Prosecutor Kevin Birney: 'It is a pretty good outcome we would say for Ms. Ehrke given how serious the total event was.'
Def atty Robert Holley: 'She is absolutely devastated by all of this she has been crying all morning..She's been punished about as much as anybody can possibly be punished….” Her bank accounts and credit cards were canceled.
Judge Friedman asks about the closures. Ehrke responds: 'They said it was merely a business deicison and they wouldn’t give me any other details.'
Judge Friedman says he wishes that all members of Congress would watch the videos showing violence against police on Jan. 6.
After calling the Jan. 6 assault an ‘insurrection’ and 'incredibly problematic for a democratic society,’ Friedman says Ehrke’s role was ‘about as minimal as it gets.’ Gives her 3 years probation. $500 restitution. No fine. 120 hours of community service.
Judge also mentioned expected demonstration tom'w and fences that have again gone up around the Capitol. Calls ‘misguided’ the view that 1/6 defendants are political prisoners. Some may be patriots, but what they did was not First Amendment protected speech or protest. ENDS
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