January 6 suspects describe jail conditions ‘like Guantanamo Bay’
“It’s like Guantanamo Bay’: Inside the Washington D.C. jail where Capitol rioters are ‘treated like domestic terrorists,’ assaulted, taunted and locked up in ‘closet-sized’ cells up to 24 hours a day,” Daily Mail wrote in an exclusive on the harsh treatments of Jan 6 protestors.
All of the protestors were unarmed and none of them appeared to have an agenda of killing or harming those legitimately in the Capitol. to call the event a riot is not far fetched. To call the event, not being justified by anyone, an insurrection, is hysteria by those clueless as to the definition of insurrection.
Violence was involved, with some of the protestors attacking law enforcement officers.
Geoffrey Sills, 30, of Mechanicsville, is charged with federal offenses that include assaulting, resisting or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon; obstruction of an official proceeding; and civil disorder, among other charges. Sills made his initial court appearance in the Eastern District of Virginia on June 21.
According to court documents, Sills was on the lower west terrace of the Capitol on Jan. 6 where he was seen on U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) surveillance, videos posted online, and body-worn camera (BWC) footage repeatedly assaulting multiple law enforcement officers. As depicted in the footage, Sills threw multiple objects, including pole-like objects, at law enforcement officers around 2:30 p.m., as the officers retreated and the crowd advanced forward. USCP surveillance footage then captured Sills in one of the first groups of rioters entering the tunnel around 2:41 p.m, while holding his phone up as if it were recording.
Brian Glenn Bingham, 35, of Port Charlotte, Florida, is charged with federal offenses that include assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder; and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, among other charges.
Others were also charged with violence against law officials. Yet others were arrested or imprisoned with no proof of violence during the incursion into the Capitol.
Those arrested and in prison report abuse.
The Daily mail summarizes its investigation:
- Suspects connected to the January 6 storming of the Capitol are allegedly being mistreated in the Washington D.C. jail, according to DailyMail.com’s investigation
- They’re held in solitary confinement for 23 to 24 hours a day in small cells and allegedly assaulted and degraded by jail guards
- ‘The DC Central Detention Facility has become Guantanamo Bay for American Citizens,’ one lawyer told DailyMail.com
- Richard ‘Bigo’ Barnett, who’s known for putting his feet up on Pelosi’s desk, spoke to DailyMail.com via email
- He said they eat ‘slop’ and keep up morale up by singing the national anthem and reciting the pledge of allegiance
- A guard allegedly threatened to sexually assault his wife
- The January 6 Capitol protestors are being held in ‘restrictive housing’ and designated ‘maximum security’ even before trial
- One suspect claims in court documents he was assaulted. His lawyer said a guard allegedly attacked him
- The Washington Department of Corrections didn’t respond to DailyMail.com’s requests for comments FOR THE FULL DETAILS VISIT THE DAILY MAIL
Trump and the Capitol police had requested further security in advance, to include the National Guard but Pelosi denied the request. Facts of the cases are pending.
the Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbit dead as she was trying to enter the Capitol through a window will not face charges.