100 Percent Fed Up Reports – Two years after the events of the January 6th ‘Stop the Steel’ rally, the Justice Department is still prosecuting people for increasingly minor violations.
To date, more than 1,000 people have been arrested in connection with the unrest, many given unusually long sentences for the crimes they were found guilty of, while others have been denied due process and subjected to harsh treatment in prison. Awaiting their verdict.
In one particularly egregious case, a journalist covering the protests was recently sentenced to four months of house arrest and 60 hours of community service.
While prosecutors said he was accused of violating the Capitol, even though he was a journalist reporting the events, others suggested a more sinister motive.
The journalist, Samuel Montoya, 37, reportedly has footage of the moments when protester Ashley Babbitt was killed by Capitol Police.
After showing the footage to his relatives, one of them turned them into investigating officers.
The Epoch Times reports- A Texas man who previously worked for Alex Jones’ website InfoWorld has been sentenced to four months of house arrest and 60 hours of community service. They filmed the breach of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Samuel Montoya, 37, was working as a video editor for Infoverse when he joined other demonstrators at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as a joint session of Congress certified the results of the 2020 presidential election.
According to court documents (PDF), the FBI received a tip from a family member of Montoya’s National Threat Operations Center just a week after the breach. A relative claims to have proof that a video editor was physically present in the US Capitol near Ashley Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran who was fatally shot outside the speaker’s lobby.
Family members told the FBI that Montoya captured the moment Capital Police Lt. Michael Byrd fatally shot Babbitt on camera and that an InfoWorld employee showed the footage to his relatives.
During the footage, Montoya can be heard describing himself as a “reporter” or “journalist” to others inside the Capitol building.
