Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted chief judge before the sentence was handed down, calling him a ‘clown’ and a ‘fraud’
Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted chief judge before the sentence was handed down, calling him a ‘clown’ and a ‘fraud’
A man who stormed the US Capitol with fellow Proud Boys far-right extremist group members was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison after he berated and insulted the judge who punished him.
Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted chief judge James Boasberg before the sentence was handed down, calling him a “clown” and a “fraud” presiding over a “kangaroo court”.
The judge warned Bru that he could be kicked out of the courtroom if he continued to disrupt the proceedings.
“You can give me 100 years and I’d do it all over again,” said Bru, who was handcuffed and shackled.
“That’s the definition of no remorse in my book,” the judge said.
Bru has been representing himself with an attorney on standby. He has spewed anti-government rhetoric that appears to be inspired by the sovereign citizen movement. At the start of the hearing, Bru demanded that the judge and a prosecutor turn over five years of their financial records.
Just to make it perfectly clear that this guy is an imbecile.
According to another article the guy is 43. Imagine proudly throwing away the majority of your forties for Donald fucking Trump. Like most people when I was young I always thought 40 was ancient but now that I'm approaching it myself I simply can't imagine anything being worth losing these years. My partner and I finally have the stability and the means to do many of the things we've always dreamed of. It would be such a waste.
I suspect he'd didn't have as much to lose by throwing away his 40s as you would. He doesn't sound like the most rational of sorts, so probably didn't have the 'stability and the means" for a good life you mention.
He assumed that since Trump gets away with insulting the judge, he could do it, too. This was partially a consequence of treating Trump with kid gloves and tolerating his shenanigans. I hope Trump’s other judges take note, but they probably won’t.
Well they REALLY want to make things stick to Trump which means giving absolutely zero possibility of an appeal determining bias from the judge. They want these cases to be run so well and so by the book that there's no chance of him getting off on a technicality.
I understand that, but they’ve gotta draw the line somewhere. So far, it doesn’t look like they have. All the various judges seem to have done is sternly told him things that are common sense to virtually every other defendant.
Slapping Trump down in court would feel awesome until whatever decisions the judge makes get overturned on appeal on some technicality. I'm perfectly happy with the current strategy of giving him all the rope he wants. If his supporters want to fuck around and find out how the justice system works for folks in their income bracket...well, I'm sorry but insurrection has consequences and unapologetic insurrection has bigger consequences.
I'm sure he's emulating people like Trump, but I doubt he's doing it because he thinks there won't be consequences because of them. I doubt he's thought about it at all.
However, WERE there actually consequences here for insulting the judge? Sounds like the sentence is what he was going to receive anyway.
While in this case it is probably for the best, losing voting rights because of convictions is terrible in general, and has been used to strip black people and other groups of their votes for unfairly enforced laws. This is not new, and continues to this day, for example the Florida legislature blatantly ignoring the will of the people to restore votes to felons.
Yes, you can legally vote from jail/prison, however many states, and local counties, will make this difficult. You lose voting rights for a felony (possibly just a subset). A misdemeanor does not impact your voting rights.
Without double checking, I'm guessing this guy was charged with a felony. Most of the January 6 charges were misdemeanors, not felonies. It really feels like your should lose your voting rights for at least 1 election cycle if you're charged with some sort of election fraud or trying to over turn an election
He’s just hoping Drumpf will get elected and pardon them all. He probably would too. If Drumpf gets back into the Oval Office, kiss this country goodbye.
These are the types of cases where it pays to be lenient.
Without going deeply into the history & tactics of dealing with insurgencies: If the goal is social stability and reconciliation - it is best to be lenient the first time, but then be absolutely over-the-top brutal the second.
2,190 days where I'll be out in the sunshine, eating delicious food, playing with my kids, and he'll be stuck inside most of the time eating prison food lol.
But he's proving he's a 'true patriot'! Plus he'll get to make friends with more white supremacist shitheads, and nurture his seething anger against a society that scares him profoundly.
...Yeah, like you, I'd take the freedom too. But one thing the last several years has taught me: some people's preferred reality is an absolute fucking nightmare, and they like it that way. They love twerking for an elderly, bloviated, thin-skinned narcissistic TV celebrity with horrible personal hygiene and makeup preferences. And nothing will change their minds.
Yeah he knew he was fucked, he was just trying to make sure he was memorable enough that Dump would be sure to pardon him if he won a second term, which this guy is really really counting on.
Hard to tell, if you're dumb enough to talk for Trump's lies about the election, you are also be dumb enough to berate a judge.
Also could be that if you are dumb enough to believe that this will get trumps attention and he won't think solely about himself, you are also dumb enough to berate a judge. So it's kind of a catch 22.
It serves Trump for his j6 insurrectionists and their families to believe he'll pardon them all. His supporters (j6 and other extremists) serve Trump by continually reassuring each other that the pardons will definitely happen day 1.
Trump supporters are surely telling each other that they have it from 'reliable sources' (their imaginations) that Trump will pardon everyone that's faithful. The day of forgiveness is near and all they have to do is have faith and do good works (spread the faith, give money) and their redemption shall come.
LOL this is precisely why the Trump judges are not being aggressive. No way this case didn't get tossed or retried on appeal because of the judge's behavior.
I think that's basically everyone's strategy at this point. Putin, Trump, Guiliani, everyone else in the GOP. All their hopes are riding on Trump winning the election or else everything goes to shit.
Yes, a very wise strategy to insult the judge. What's next, will he insult his fellow inmates in prison too? Maybe taunt the prison guards? That'll show 'em.