Black MAGA Fan Slapped with Harshest Jan. 6 Punishment Yet

A Texas man who by no means breached the Capitol has been handed the longest sentence of anybody concerned within the Capitol incursion after the Obama-appointed decide sentencing him praised these marching in George Floyd-inspired protests.

Troy Anthony Smocks, 58, of Dallas, was sentenced to 14 months in jail by District Courtroom Decide Tanya S. Chutkan. Smocks had earlier pleaded responsible to at least one depend of transmitting threats in interstate commerce, a felony, in line with WUSA-TV.

Smocks was in Washington through the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion, however didn’t participate.

Nevertheless, he did put up a social media message on Jan. 7 that led to his arrest.

“Lets hunt these cowards down just like the Traitors that every of them are. This consists of RINOS,1 Dems, and Tech Execs. We now have the inexperienced mild. [All] who resist US are enemies of Our Structure, and should be handled as such. At the moment, the cowards ran as We took the Capital. They’ve it again now, solely as a result of We left. It wasn’t the constructing that We needed. . . it was them!”  he posted, in line with CNN.

“Many people will return on January nineteenth, 2021, carrying our weapons in help of Our nation’s resolve, to which the world will always remember. We’ll are available numbers that no standing military or police company can match,” he additionally posted.

Smocks mentioned his sentence smacked of racial discrimination.

“Your honor, that is racism. Because of this there are way more black and brown males in jail than whites for a similar crime,” Smocks mentioned. “I’m no Dr. King, not by a protracted shot, however we do share the identical pores and skin coloration and the identical concept of justice.”

The argument appeared to inflame Chulkan, who is also black.

“Mr. Smocks now seeks to by some means evaluate himself and drape himself within the mantle of civil rights. I, for one, discover that offensive,” Chutkan mentioned.

“I’ve not seen a scintilla of proof that prosecutors’ choices have been racially motivated,” Chutkan advised Smocks.

“Folks protesting largely peacefully for the civil rights of a murdered unarmed man is just not the identical as an try to violently disrupt the operations of Congress. These two should not the identical, and that’s a false equivalency,” Chutkan mentioned, in line with The Washington Post.

“Folks died preventing for civil rights,” she mentioned. “Folks had been overwhelmed, they had been tortured mentally and bodily. So that you can maintain your self up as by some means a soldier in that battle is audacious.”

NEW: A federal decide sentenced Troy SMOCKS to 14 months for threatening lawmakers on social media on Jan. 6-7.

Smocks, who’s Black, claimed he was dealing with harsher remedy than white Jan. 6 defendants.

Decide Chutkan known as his remarks “offensive.”https://t.co/Bdd8TGrQgb

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She additionally touched on Smocks’ 17 convictions, starting when he was 18, and what she mentioned was his lack of regret.

“I listened to each phrase Mr. Smocks mentioned, and nowhere did I hear a single phrase of regret,” Chutkan mentioned. “Not a single phrase of acknowledgment of the enormity and seriousness of what he did.”

Smocks, who has served 9 months in jail ready for this trial, will probably be credited with time served. He can have three years of supervision when his jail time period ends.