r/CapitolConsequences • u/Jordan_WUSA9 Verified Journalist • Sep 27 '22
Capitol rioter who caused career-ending injury to USCP Sgt. Gonell convicted on 11 counts CONVICTION
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/capitol-rioter-who-caused-career-ending-injury-to-uscp-sergeant-convicted-on-11-counts-kyle-fitzsimons-sgt-gonell-sarah-beavers-phuson-nguyen-maine/65-0187fe23-58d8-4f58-9fba-45fbd8e246f7358
u/Soregular Sep 27 '22
He is truly frightening and something is deeply wrong with this person.
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u/stupidsuburbs3 Sep 27 '22
This nuts’ voicemail is mandatory listening from the article.
Witaf?
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Sep 27 '22
He held true to his word. He threw his life away.
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u/AllAboutMeMedia Sep 27 '22
I feel owned, actually no I don't, cause I can go outside and enjoy the world.
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u/Furbal1307 Sep 27 '22
My wife made a delicious pork and baked zucchini dinner. What are you having on this fine, free evening?
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u/the_north_place Sep 27 '22
Landscaping, beer, and catching up on reservation dogs
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u/RobertBringhurst Oct 04 '22
Landscaping
Four Seasons?
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u/the_north_place Oct 04 '22
No the damn river rock I put off all summer and now have to get done before winter. It's awful
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Sep 28 '22
Smoking a blunt and eating Death by Chocolate ice cream.
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u/Lord_Halowind Sep 28 '22
Drinking some seltzer and catching up on the new season of The Orville. It's also a nice California day today.
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u/Generations18 Sep 28 '22
I can go out and not be concerned Ill run into him again for a long long time.. For that Im grateful. I actually cried, happy tears today.
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u/ersogoth Sep 27 '22
I am watching my five year old learn parkour, and plan on having a delicious burger for dinner.
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u/CrabbieHippie Sep 28 '22
My 14 year old loves Parkour. And we had smash burgers for dinner. I highly recommend adding grilled onions.
Dinner probably sucks in jail for this violent traitor.
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u/c0pypastry Sep 28 '22
Honestly a pretty good ass day, what with not being in jail for doing a shit load of crimes for a rich asshole who doesn't even know i exist
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u/AllAboutMeMedia Sep 28 '22
Proud of you fellow American
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u/c0pypastry Sep 28 '22
Canadian, from the shit hole where most of the TRUCK CUCKS came from.
We also had a bunch of fascist clowns blocking the southern border planning to murder mounties!
But thanks
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Sep 28 '22 edited Sep 28 '22
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u/stupidsuburbs3 Sep 28 '22
I have zero reason to believe you but the voicemail makes it entirely plausible. The creepy breathy pauses are odd to say the least.
Along comes flynn and the qanon dragnet to tap into his issues.
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Sep 28 '22
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Sep 28 '22
I mean I'm no expert on aging but shit that looks like proof to me.
Ive kinda wondered if we took a sample of the January 6th insurrectionists and tested them, how many would have some sort of personality altering brain injury or other undiagnosed disorder. I'd wager it's double digit percentages higher than the general population
Edit: noticed your username. Hello fellow IT person
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Sep 28 '22
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u/stupidsuburbs3 Sep 28 '22
You’re 100 percent right imo. The average American is drowning and being taken advantage of. “Making it” sometimes feels like it entails participating in some kind of squid game.
You had no way of helping someone with a TBI and resultant issues. Especially once the president of the united states starts whispering conspiracy theory right to his frontal cortex.
We do need to do better at taking care of our communities and fighting off the preying vultures. Collectively though, we have zero chance on an individual level. Which is why I imagine you felt helpless watching a former friend disappear before your eyes.
Ps. I didn’t mean to be insulting about your connection to him. That was my clumsy attempt at highlighting even if it was untrue, based on his VM and others 1/6ers history, a TBI made perfect sense.
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Sep 28 '22
Not that I have any sympathy for him but we also have to hold the ones instigating these people accountable like trump, mtg, and others
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u/stupidsuburbs3 Sep 28 '22
For me, the underlings are a study into animating a disaffected mob on a mass scale.
They are neither the beginning nor the end of the insurrection. They’re a sad reflection of me if I was more susceptible to react violently to conspiracy theories. So I find them interesting.
I’m saving all my bile for the planners and the ones that benefited.
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u/ButterPotatoHead Sep 28 '22
I listen to and read these things and still just honestly can't believe that these people believed this nonsense so utterly and completely.
Among the many things I don't understand is how he thought the uniformed cops protecting the Capitol were somehow his enemy and worthy of violence. Did he think they were "in on it" somehow?
Just so amazing and stupid.
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u/stupidsuburbs3 Sep 28 '22
Yes.
Those cops were protecting legislators that rape and drink baby blood. Donald was going to protect the little babies and the cops were part of the evil.
I’ve accepted the level of delusion and probable trauma/substance abuse that animated these mullies’ thinking.
It doesn’t have to make sense to us. It just has to get them moving for Flynn to take advantage.
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Sep 28 '22
In reference to the 2020 Election: "...I'll be willing to to object to MY entire life if this HAPPENS TO ME..." What an insane narcissistic piece of shit.
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u/sherlock_at_home Sedition Hunter Sep 27 '22 edited Sep 27 '22
Kyle is a monster with monstrous tendencies. He has a thirst for violence and doesn’t believe in authority.
Enjoy prison, Kyle. I sincerely hope it rights some of what is wrong within you. That said, I strongly doubt you have the willpower to make a meaningful change in your life. I hoped you would end up in a cell when I sent photos of your actions to the feds, and I am glad they saw it through to now.
Good riddance.
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u/buefordwilson Sep 27 '22
Well that covers it perfectly and I have been a huge fan of your efforts and exploits throughout all of this, so I thank you for that. Also, just to double up, good riddance indeed.
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u/sherlock_at_home Sedition Hunter Sep 27 '22
Chip, chip cheerio kyle. Ya fuck.
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u/buefordwilson Sep 27 '22
Hahahaaa Sealed the deal right there. Thanks for the chuckle. I'm currently enjoying it while being free which makes it even more enjoyable!
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u/sherlock_at_home Sedition Hunter Sep 27 '22
Imprisonment doesn’t make joy impossible, but damn if it doesn’t make it a little tougher.
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u/T3n4ci0us_G Sep 28 '22
Good job and yes, good riddance. He looks insane and sounded insane in that phone message. He's a FAFO poster-child.
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u/sherlock_at_home Sedition Hunter Sep 28 '22
There is so much justice happening. I’m updating my spreadsheet tonight and it’s staggering. The momentum is swelling, gain (don’t lose) hope.
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Sep 28 '22
You have a spreadsheet?! 🥺
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u/sherlock_at_home Sedition Hunter Sep 28 '22
I can’t track hundreds of people fully from memory. Hell, i can barely do it partially from memory. It has been an evolving method over these past couple years.
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u/tebbythetiger Sep 28 '22
I mean ya could mail him a foto to his jail of yourself smiling with the note “it was me” for an ultimate tell Cersei it was me movement so he can stew he was identified and fingered by haha
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u/sherlock_at_home Sedition Hunter Sep 28 '22
I don’t find a need to gloat, and I definitely don’t want him staring at my face his whole time. In the end I just want anyone who committed violence against the United States democratic process to face justice. I don’t care what what religion you are, race you are, political affiliation you are. Here’s hoping they all meet justice.
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u/MelonElbows Sep 28 '22
Better yet, send him a photo of a random MAGA idiot and say it was them. Let him be mad his fellow traitors.
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u/tebbythetiger Sep 28 '22
I mean there’s plenty of evidence they rolled over on each other as they got pinched. Can’t even be an effective organized crime group correctly… “Pathetic”
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u/tebbythetiger Sep 28 '22
They need to be mentally broken down and suffer ego death to have any chance of hope of rebuilding a new as a functioning member learning from this. otherwise they should be permanently cast down. Unfortunately our judicial system fails to understand this which is why we have such a high re-incarceration rate. It may seem like “social reeducation” but it is required to move them on from this. In honestly they should have considered any prior life of freedom as destroyed until such time reprogramming can reintroduce them correctly to society
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u/sherlock_at_home Sedition Hunter Sep 28 '22
What a fine line we walk……. Re-education conjures up images of the Nazis and modern China for me. And yet I agree. In a perfect world, part of true justice is the rehabilitation of the bad parts of someone. But I do agree ego death is necessary to come to terms with what any of us have done In life.
None of these defendants have an ounce of mindfulness that I’ve seen, and they could use it.
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u/stupidsuburbs3 Sep 28 '22
Did you see the comment thread up “above”?
Someone posted pictures from when he was young and says he had a TBI.
I’ve been made aware of conflating trauma and mental illness with people that are just violent assholes. I’m trying not to do that too much.
But when I first listened to this guy’s voicemail, it was way too theatrical to be the product of a normal functioning brain imo. I can believe he had something alter whatever he started as.
Where do we go from here when a president then calls people like that do his bidding?
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u/BdogWcat Sep 27 '22
This monster's face is what my mind conjures up whenever I think of the J6 coup attempt. It's the face of a guy who's whole life is shit & he blames every living thing for his own self hatred that extends to everyone & thing he sees. He'd murder kittens if they had the misfortune of existing in his line of vision. He's the MAGA mascot.
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u/thats1evildude Sep 27 '22
He didn’t testify or present any evidence at his trial? Interesting strategy, Cotton.
(Also, this article is very poorly-edited.)
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u/booRadley12 Sep 27 '22
Not only didn’t present any defense, he turned DOWN a plea deal!
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u/thats1evildude Sep 27 '22
He probably thinks he’s a martyr. That, or he’s sure he’ll be pardoned once Donald is back in office.
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u/DownWithOCP Sep 27 '22
Nice job on trying a bench trial with an Obama judge with that indictment. Now enjoy the next 15-20 years of laundry duty and a half-functional toilet!
Definitely a guy who never realized The Punisher doesn’t like when bad guys hurt law enforcement officers.
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Sep 27 '22
Definitely a guy who never realized The Punisher doesn’t like when bad guys hurt law enforcement officers.
This shit right here! ☝️☝️☝️ They don't UNDERSTAND that THEY are the ones The Punisher HATES. They think they're the good guys. Back the Blue? Pull my other leg, it plays Jingle Bells...
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u/Heretek007 Sep 27 '22
They don't care much for reading comprehension, or thinking about what they do. Seems to me all they care about is the symbol at its obvious surface value, and how they can use it to make themselves feel good about what they do-- just like their sick affinity for the American flag as they gleefully brutalize their countrymen and try to overthrow the government.
Hell, most of these fucks probably never cared enough to read the damn comics. If they did, they'd know Frank sees himself as a broken man who needs to die once his mission's over, not a hero to be applauded. And there was that one time he told cops using his symbol to fuck off and emulate Captain America, not him.
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u/Defiantcaveman Sep 28 '22
I think it's simpler, "The Punisher" punishes and they want to punish their perceived "enemies". Don't forget the religious bend these fucks have...
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Sep 28 '22
Jesus wouldn’t recognize any of America’s so called “christians”. He’d likely tell his father to go Old Testament on them.
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u/Defiantcaveman Sep 28 '22 edited Sep 28 '22
Guarantee it. I mean if we take "the prosperity gospel" at it's word, we poor deserve to be punished, god is frowning upon us because we are poor. Some of them take it upon themselves to mete out holy justice in gods name and become a punisher. The mental gymnastics are beyond doubt and the psychotic logic follows. They're simpletons with an excuse and mascot.
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u/DownWithOCP Sep 27 '22 edited Sep 27 '22
Especially the 00’s Ennis version. He goes after the Mafia like he’s Jason Voorhees, helps a group of widows whose criminal husbands he killed, annihilates a sex trafficking op, targets his corrupt mentor, and chases Russia (led by a Putin-like regime) out of Afghanistan with a number of casualties that Putin would have to dramatically underplay.
He would definitely go after Trumpworld and MAGA. The Oath Keepers and Proud Boys would cease existence in the first issue.
The Punisher is my favorite superhero besides Batman, not only the grief element but given what I’ve gone through in my life - I would never kill someone in real life, esp. if it’s a public official or a celebrity, but he does basically everything we wish we could do to Trump to people who’d support him and/or took the Q or MAGA route.
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u/shalafi71 Sep 27 '22
Pull my other leg, it plays Jingle Bells...
Stealing this. You can't stop me.
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u/Q-burt Sep 27 '22
I'm curious how other inmates will respond. They aren't cool with LE, but they might like their country enough to hate this guy? Anyone have any ideas on what cons think of seditionists?
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u/SirEnzyme Sep 27 '22
They pair well with the Aryan Nation
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u/stiff_peakss Sep 27 '22
I've been thinking about this. During the War on Terror we put a bunch of "terrorists" into prisons together and they all became buddies and started ISIS.
Are all these insurrectionists going to be locked up together so they can do the same thing?
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Sep 27 '22
Thing is the white supremacist movement has been healthy in prison for a while. These guys will fit in, but aren't going to be radicalizing anyone who isn't already going to be radicalized.
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u/stiff_peakss Sep 27 '22
Yeah, white power has been around for a while and yes, they want an "Aryan Nation". The organized coup attempts are new, it's mostly been lone-wolf types up until Jan 6. So we're going to round up all these lonely, radicalized weekend racists and put them in a place that will allow them to network and gain the type of knowledge to not make the same mistakes next time.
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u/SirEnzyme Sep 27 '22
They'll find employment a challenge when they get out, thanks to all the punitive measures they demand and support for convicted criminals
For them, the criminals are always darker on the other side of the
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u/blaze980 Sep 28 '22
Inmates aren't the biggest fans of 'government' given how "justice systems" work on a daily basis.
They're not going to face a wave of patriotism.
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u/FireDanaHireHerman Sep 27 '22
If the punisher saw jan 6 he'd probably start hunting proud boys and oathkeepers
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u/DownWithOCP Sep 27 '22 edited Sep 27 '22
Castle would solve the entire investigation before the election because there’d be no one else to find. And he gives double points to corrupt political, law enforcement, and white collar figures who abuse their power.
Personally, I feel like Marvel isn’t funny enough to supply us a Punisher arc where he only goes back to killing because he can’t get his copyright infringement suit against the hate groups through court.
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u/dividedconsciousness Sep 27 '22
I do wish all prisoners had fully functional toilets though, and better things than the system generally accords them
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u/LivingIndependence Sep 27 '22
4 months until sentencing. Well, that gives him time to study up on the prison currency system. For example, the value of Ramen flavor packets, honey buns, and Fritos.
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u/TheLaGrangianMethod Sep 27 '22
Four stamps for a ramen ten years ago. I wonder how much inflation factors into prison/jail currency.
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u/khrak Sep 27 '22
Contreras set sentencing in Fitzsimons’ case for Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.
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u/Chippopotanuse Sep 27 '22
Why is sentencing five months from now?
I know there are pre-sentencing briefs that need to get filed, but is 5 months typical for the Jan 6 cases?
What is over/under for likely sentence? 10 years? 15?
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u/IntermittenSeries Sep 27 '22
Yeah. I was wondering if this was old or that was a typo. They did sat “the Justice Department med its burden.” Instead of met its burden so many they messed up the date
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u/ChewieBearStare Sep 27 '22
And that someone "through" an arrow into the crowd. I say we question everything about this article in case it's a typo, lol.
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u/Loki-Don Sep 27 '22
Lol…threw away a plea deal. Going to get 10+ years instead. Some real smooth brained “tourist” he was.
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u/buffyfan12 Light Bringer Sep 27 '22
So they really thought they were going to look good at a trial?
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u/OUReddit2 Sep 27 '22
From the article:
“WASHINGTON — A federal judge convicted a Maine resident of 11 counts Tuesday for repeatedly assaulting police who were attempting to defend an entrance into the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6.
Kyle Fitzsimons, of Lebanon, Maine, appeared before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras this week to hear his verdict more than a month after his bench trial concluded. Fitzsimons was indicted last February on 11 counts, including felony counts of obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder and four counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding police.
Fitzsimons rejected a plea offer and went to trial in August, facing video footage from multiple angles showing his repeated assaults and the testimony of three officers who took the stand to testify about being attacked. One, DC Police Officer Sarah Beaver, was struck in the head by an unstrung bow Fitzsimons through into the police line in the Lower West Terrace Tunnel. Another, DC Police Officer Phuson Nguyen, said Fitzsimons broke the seal on his gas mask and caused noxious pepper spray to be trapped inside. The third officer, U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, testified that it was Fitzsimons who grabbed his shield and ripped him to the ground – causing an injury to his shoulder that required surgery to repair and which, ultimately, has led to his early medical retirement from the force.
On Tuesday, Contreras said the Justice Department had med its burden to sustain all 11 counts as well as a bodily injury enhancement for the assault on Gonell and a dangerous weapon enhancement for the assault on Beaver. Though Contreras did not find Fitzsimons guilty of a second bodily injury enhancement for the attack on Phuson – saying the video was too chaotic and did not conclusively show Fitzsimons making contact with his mask – he said there was no doubt Fitzsimons’ intention was to assault and injure officers.
“He took every opportunity he had to continue inflicting violence on officers,” Contreras said.
Contreras also said the evidence made it clear Fitzsimons was aware of the certification of electoral votes on Jan. 6, pointing out he’d repeatedly referenced it in a Facebook post attempting to recruit others to join him in D.C. and in menacing voice mails to U.S. Rep Jared Golden (D-ME) prior to the Capitol riot.
Fitzsimons did not testify on his own behalf at trial, and did not present an evidence in his defense. His attorney, federal public defender Natasha Taylor-Smith, suggested in her closing arguments that at least the assault on Officer Beaver had been an attempt to defend another person in the tunnel — but Contreras said there was little to no evidence to support that claim. The judge also rejected a characterization Fitzsimons offered to members of the Lebanon Select Board of being forced by the crowd to continue moving forward to the police line.
“Mr. Fitzsimons could have retreated, but instead he chose to escalate the violence in the tunnel,” Contreras said, later adding, “There was nothing ignorant, mistaken or accidental about his presence there.”
Fitzsimons, having been found guilty of six felony counts with two significant weapon and injury enhancements, could face one of the lengthiest prison sentences to date in a Capitol riot case. Earlier this month, former NYPD officer Thomas Webster was sentenced to 10 years in prison for obstruction and assaulting an officer with a dangerous weapon. Last month, Texas Three Percenter Guy Reffitt was ordered to serve seven years in prison for obstruction of an official proceeding, carrying a handgun onto Capitol grounds and threatening to shoot two of his children if they talked to the FBI.
Contreras set sentencing in Fitzsimons’ case for Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.”
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u/fokaiHI Sep 27 '22
At first, I was kinda disappointed in the sentences that were being handed out. I am glad that this one will be severe.
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Sep 27 '22
I read about 2 months ago that they were getting all the smaller and easier defendants out of the way first as they put together the cases for the bigger ones
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u/Eyemarten Sep 27 '22
That has been my line of thinking as well. The sentences are getting tougher as time progresses.
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u/ButterPotatoHead Sep 28 '22
Yep I think this is right. All of the "illegal parading" and other minor charges were done first for whatever reason, maybe just to organize the hundreds of cases.
Idiots like this one are the ones that are left and are getting the heavy sentences. I'm also looking forward to "Bigo" the guy that put his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk, and the 'Pink Hat Lady", they're coming up in the next few months.
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u/boozeyg Sep 28 '22
Does this news outlet have anyone that proofreads stories before publishing? Yikes at least four errors found on quick read. They need to hire clippy.
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u/Defiantcaveman Sep 28 '22
Imagine him in an SS officers uniform and with the power that affords him. THAT is why we absolutely must vote this trash into oblivion because if we don't, he will be running things and...
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u/ModeratePhilosophy Sep 27 '22
Monster. Like most fascistic MAGA's, who grew up with mean or abusive fathers he's not only a mean and bad person, but goes beyond that into extreme criminality. When he gets decades behind bars, let's cry tears of joy.
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u/barvid Sep 27 '22
Weird but ok
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u/ModeratePhilosophy Sep 27 '22
Was an attempt to insert a small amount of comedy in there. Keep Portland weird.
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u/proto-prop Sep 27 '22
Wrong Portland (we do have our share of weirdos too fwiw). The area this guy is from, Lebanon and the Berwicks, more just flat out racist than weird.
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u/pickypawz Sep 27 '22
He could totally give Jack Nicholson in The Shining a run for his money here. Wow, much psycho.
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u/NorskGodLoki Sep 27 '22
If anyone deserves being shot as a traitor it is this guy but he will probably get off with a lot less than he should get.
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Sep 28 '22
I can think of at least one other person whose traitorous activities have earned such justice.
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u/EzrielTheFallenOne Sep 27 '22
Here's to him getting exactly what he deserves in general pop.
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u/No_Yak_6227 Sep 27 '22
Start pumping iron now dude, make friends with the prison gang of your choosing, load up your commissary account ... GP is your bitch
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u/conditerite Sep 28 '22
Well Kyle Fitzsimons’ a bitch, he's a big fat bitch He's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world He's a stupid bitch, if there ever was a bitch He's a bitch to all the boys and girls
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u/PriscillaRain Sep 28 '22
Wonder if these people stop and think they lost their freedom for Trump and he doesn't give a damn about them.
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u/mothraegg Sep 28 '22
I can't believe so many idiots were willing to throw away their lives for Trump. It's just so crazy.
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u/WorstHatFreeSoup Sep 28 '22
Been following this case for awhile. He called CT & RI multicultural hellholes. I don’t think he has any idea what’s going to be in store for him in prison.
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u/CrackHeadRodeo Sep 28 '22
I hope the time matches the crime. This guy needs to get it through his thick skull that we are not like him.
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u/SpaceTabs Sep 27 '22
Six felonies and two aggravated enhancements. This guy is going to get more than the 10 years that Webster got.