I represented thousands of poor criminal defendants as a public defender, many of them non-white. The January 6 defendants are well-to-do whites, so CNN invents these new criminal defenses:
▪️ The Caught Up in the Frenzy Defense
▪️ The Trespassed But Didn’t Assault Defense
▪️ The Police-Did-It Defense
▪️ The Caught Up in the Frenzy Defense
▪️ The Trespassed But Didn’t Assault Defense
▪️ The Police-Did-It Defense
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"I was only looking for the Soy Sauce!"
(just protesting, in the most civil manner)
(2011/2012 era, first public unrests, reaction to lower-rank fraud/corruption/bankruptcy/housing-project-failure)