I think you have to be in a really bad place mentally do what they are doing. They're either incapable of seeing the consequences, or they're happy to be martyrs for what they think is a just cause.
After the last 4 years the idea that there will be consequences for anything Trump does is laughable. He'll take up painting veterans or some other hobby and rehabilitate his image soon enough.
They're probably going to give an amnesty for today's events, what are they going to do? Throw thousands of people in jail and make them political martyrs?
How about locking the doors? I didn't see any battering rams.
This thing was a major police messup.
There should have been plenty riot police available that can force people to not enter. Obviously the risk of protesters trying to go in was high when Trump had a rally outside.
Felony murder applies when a person dies while the offender is committing any of a set of felonies. It doesn't matter how the person died, or whether it was intentional because the intent to commit the initial felony is enough.
The canonical example is everyone who took part in a bank robbery can be charged with murder if the bank guards kill one of the robbers. This even applies to the getaway driver, who may not have entered the bank.
The initial felony could be any of: the assault on the building, breaking & entering, various domestic terror statutes we have for this sort of thing.
There were at least 4 deaths at the Capitol yesterday. All of the insurgents should be facing 4 murder charges, in addition to the other charges that we would expect.
This appears to indicate that everyone who illegally entered the Capitol yesterday can be indicted for first-degree murder, which carries a sentence of 30 to life in DC.
Doesn't matter. He can pardon them before any charges are laid out, or after and he can give a blanket pardon for crimes related to whatever and to anybody involved, because the pardons don't have to be to a named person.
That might work, but would you like to put your life on the line for the capital crime of treason and insurrection, with the hope that a non-specific pardon will shield you from the rule of law?
