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sl8

(16,273 posts)
Tue May 24, 2022, 07:23 AM May 2022

Maryland Man Who Was 'Front and Center' Attacking Police on Jan. 6 Gets Years Behind Bars



Maryland Man Who Was ‘Front and Center’ Attacking Police on Jan. 6 Gets Years Behind Bars

MARISA SARNOFF
May 23rd, 2022, 5:21 pm

A Maryland man who was among the youngest people charged with participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison.

Matthew Ryan Miller, 23, threw multiple objects at law enforcement as he shouted and encouraged the crowd around him to keep pushing forward against an already-overwhelmed police force. He waved fellow rioters toward the tunnel on the Lower West Terrace, where he shouted “Come on!” as the crowd changed “Heave! Ho!” and rocked back and forth to push against the officers trying to protect the Capitol from the swarm of Donald Trump supporters angry over Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election.

According to prosecutors, Miller was draped in a Confederate flag at the time.

Miller pleaded guilty in February to two felonies: obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers.

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Maryland Man Who Was 'Front and Center' Attacking Police on Jan. 6 Gets Years Behind Bars (Original Post) sl8 May 2022 OP
No visit rom Sanny Claws for you this year... oh, 3Hotdogs May 2022 #1
Sigh. "Almost 3 years." Which means eighteen or twenty months in the end. Scrivener7 May 2022 #2
smug ignorant little incel racist MOFO CurtEastPoint May 2022 #3
Whichever adults taught him the racism should have to do time with him as an accessory. MLAA May 2022 #8
Why did this picture make me think of this scumbag...... Fla Dem May 2022 #11
That is all? What is going on?! Tumbulu May 2022 #4
Only three Rebl2 May 2022 #5
3 years for a violent coup attempt BrightKnight May 2022 #6
3 is pathetic llashram May 2022 #7
I hope they keep all theses traitors separated while they're incarcerated. Fla Dem May 2022 #9
GITMO is still open. kairos12 May 2022 #10
Headline should have said gets away with a couple years. Geesh. KPN May 2022 #12

3Hotdogs

(13,566 posts)
1. No visit rom Sanny Claws for you this year... oh,
Tue May 24, 2022, 07:32 AM
May 2022

and two more after that. Don't forget to bring your Confederate flag to keep you warm at night.

MLAA

(18,675 posts)
8. Whichever adults taught him the racism should have to do time with him as an accessory.
Tue May 24, 2022, 09:57 AM
May 2022

Tumbulu

(6,455 posts)
4. That is all? What is going on?!
Tue May 24, 2022, 09:49 AM
May 2022

This really infuriates me. I wonder how law enforcement feels.

BrightKnight

(3,684 posts)
6. 3 years for a violent coup attempt
Tue May 24, 2022, 09:52 AM
May 2022

They should be lined up against a wall and shot for high treason.

Okay, I get that the rule of law is important but the wrist slap doesn’t really fit the crime.

llashram

(6,269 posts)
7. 3 is pathetic
Tue May 24, 2022, 09:53 AM
May 2022

but...it's about time someone got time enough to run into bubba...I just can't get past the fact though, that if this insurrection coup attempt had been African-Americans they would still be finding chunks of human beings that need to be policed...

Fla Dem

(25,870 posts)
9. I hope they keep all theses traitors separated while they're incarcerated.
Tue May 24, 2022, 10:00 AM
May 2022

If not they will continue to plot and plan for the take over of the US Gov't and attacks on minority groups and other groups they see as threats to the White sovereignty of the United States while in prison.
Authorities should also do a through background check on any prision guard or employee that will have ongoing contact with these traitors to ensure they have no affiliation with any facist or white supremacy group or organization like the Proud Boy and Oath Keepers, or any other group that espouse hate toward any group other than White Heterosexual males.

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