Judge questions if Capitol rioters are being treated fairly
By Jordan Williams - 10/01/21 06:22 PM EDT
A Washington, D.C., federal judge questioned whether alleged Capitol rioters are being treated fairly during a hearing on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, who was appointed by former President Trump, suggested that the rioters were being treated harsher than rioters in D.C. last year following the murder of George Floyd, CNN reported.
“The US Attorney's Office would have more credibility if it was even-handed in its concern about riots and mobs in the city," McFadden said, according to the news outlet.
McFadden reportedly made the comments during a sentencing hearing for accused Capitol rioter Danielle Doyle.
Doyle, who worked ticket sales for the Oklahoma City Thunder from 2010 to 2020, pleaded guilty in July to illegally demonstrating inside the Capitol. She was identified after her coworkers saw her in a video from the riot and reported her to the FBI.
Doyle was sentenced to two months’ probation, according to a database from the Department of Justice. She will also pay a $3,000 fine and $500 in restitution.
During the sentencing, McFadden said that Doyle was “acting like all those looters and rioters last year,” The Associated Press reported.
“That’s because looters and rioters decided the law did not apply to them," he continued.
Still, he said that Doyle’s behavior was a “national embarrassment,” and said that it “made us all feel less safe” like last year’s demonstrations, AP noted.
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