Insurrection Detection

     Mariposa Castro stormed the Capitol because Donald Trump is a shitty golfer. In 2006, Trump hit a golf ball that nearly struck Castro, and the two struck up an amicable conversation. This apparently gave her a positive impression of him, enough that she supported his bids for president in 2016 and 2020 and enough to storm the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.      Castro, also known as Imelda Acosta, was a California resident at the time she decided to stream her crime spree on Facebook. "We got inside the Capitol," she proclaimed upon entering the building. When law enforcement had to force her and the others out, she screamed, "War just started. It's just the beginning. As Trump says, 'the best is yet to come.'" In other videos, she declared that January 6th was a "civil war" and repeatedly said that things got ugly.      As other January 6th defendants do, the tears flowed from the butterfly lady as she learned her sentence after pleading...

     We've already reported on Odin Meacham , so I'll summarize his actions on January 6th in a few short sentences. Meacham traveled to D.C. with his nephew, Nejourde, who took his own life after being charged for his actions on January 6th. Odin Meacham approached police, threw a metal pole that struck an officer in the hand, swung a wooden pole at officers, and attempted to pull a bike rack and baton away from officers, all while taunting law enforcement.      Meacham, a former MMA fighter also trained in boxing and jiu jitsu who comes from a large family, was convicted at trial of seven felony charges (including assault with a deadly weapon) and a misdemeanor charge. All told, he was looking at a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. This week, as it does before every criminal defendant is sentenced, the Justice Department filed its sentencing memorandum for Meacham. In it, they request a sentence of 96 months (eight years) in federal prison....