Kentucky state GOP passes resolution for 'wrongfully held' suspects in Jan. 6 riot [View all]
Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
January 07, 2024 1:41 PM
The governing body of the Republican Party of Kentucky passed a resolution Saturday claiming many people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have “been wrongfully held.” It recognizes “citizens who have been held without due process” after the attempted insurrection led by supporters of former Republican President Donald Trump, who has falsely asserted he won the 2020 presidential election.
The resolution is identical to one filed by Sen. Lindsey Tichenor, R-Smithfield, in the Kentucky Senate on Friday. Bobbie Coleman, chair of the Hardin County GOP who read the resolution at Saturday’s meeting, told the Herald-Leader the vote was tight: The Republican State Central Committee, the governing body of the Republican Party of Kentucky, adopted the resolution by a razor-thin 34-32 vote. “I’m not saying that not everybody was innocent, but there’s a lot that are,” Coleman said.
“If the justice system was doing it properly and constitutionally, then the ones that deserve to be in there (jail) would be in there and the ones that were were led in or were just trespassing wouldn’t.” She said that “99 percent” of people who attended the rally preceding the Capitol riot were “just there to practice their First Amendment” rights.
As of December 2023, about 1,240 people have been arrested, according to the New York Times. The Department of Justice reported in October that nearly 600 people had pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the Capitol riot and nearly 100 had been convicted by a jury. The New York Times reported two people have been acquitted.
Read more: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article283925413.html
The GOP is normalizing the commission of criminal acts.
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