Should also be one dot labeled “running for president”
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Look at all those Antifa people who got in trouble /s
not pictured: all the Federal agents that incited the poor peaceful MAGA sight-seers.
/s
Would be nice to see a video of the event to finally set the record straight.
I wish this graphic included a # and % for each category and color coded for misdemeanants and felons.
Yeah… it’s really not data. It’s just a drawing.
This certainly is data, which doesn't exist purely in tabular tables. If you're interested in doing so you could count to see how many records exists in the set, and you can easily view the "prosecution_result" field for each record. The data is also arranged into groups for easier consumption of trends that the creator is showcasing.
If you were to look at the raw data, probably stored in tabular records, you wouldn't gain much insight into the overarching trends without spending more time studying and taking notes than the few seconds it took to absorb the trends in the author's visualization.
Also, they've only caught like half the people who were there.
Much like Jesus died for your sins, they were arrested for my amusement
Where’s the arrow pointing to the dead lady?
What about the arrow pointing to the guy who accidentally tasered himself so hard in the balls that he died?
To be fair, that tickmark would be under terrorist.
They’re all terrorists though.
Yeah let's call it what it is, a straight up coup attempt.
Fortunately it was a coup attempt conducted by the least competent group of people on the planet.
be a chud
use guns as a substitute penis
Try to fuck the entire country
Not a one brought a gun
tragic
A few did. They never got to live out their cowboy-like fantasy of using it there, though.
The majority of them were given charges of breaking and entering into a capitol building or picketing in a capitol building. Not really sure what the graphic is trying to convey. It makes it seem like the majority plead guilty to inssurrection.
It's not as clear as it should be, it means convicted people that are still fighting the charges
Add: I want to read the article of the story behind the two who were acquitted.
Formally speaking, a conviction will attach once a defendant is found guilty by a trial court. Even while one or more appeals may be ongoing, it is accurate to describe the defendant as convicted. The status of a federal conviction sticks until such time the conviction is judicially overturned by a successful appeal, or when pardoned by the executive. But not clemency, which is a reduction in the penalty by the executive, but retains the conviction.
A person who has their conviction overturned or pardoned can no longer be accurately described as convicted. Although colloquially, it's unclear if "ex-convict" is an acceptable description or not.
But wouldn't the pleaded guilty and convicted people overlap?
Also, source article?
the distinction is between those who worked out a plea bargain (plead guilty) and those who were found guilty by a jury at trial (plead not guilty and were then convicted). both are, technically, convictions, but the difference is between those who owned up to their crimes (and saved the courts and the taxpayers the trouble and expense of a trial) and those who tried to get away with it.
The latter group of defendants -- the ones convicted by a jury -- also receive heavier sentences, since the federal sentencing guidelines recommend that defendants pleading guilty before trial get a reduced severity score, potentially shaving months off the sentence, or omitting the custodial sentence entirely, replaced by probation.
Compared to the total number of federal defendants (using 2022 data), there appears to have been a slightly higher rate here of going to trial than defendants overall. Both sets demonstrate that when federal prosecutors bring cases, they don't tend to miss. Also demonstrated is how federal trials rarely result in an acquittal.
Does this mean judges and juries are biased against federal defendants? Likely not, since again: federal prosecutors tend to only pursue a case they know they can win. Knowing this, it must be a tough job for federal public defence lawyers but someone has to do it.
Oh, look what just dropped into my news feed:
Conservative activist group Judicial Watch said in a Friday press release its lawyers are representing Aaron Babbitt in the lawsuit. Babbitt is seeking $30 million.
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But Babbitt said in the lawsuit his wife was ambushed when she was shot and multiple people yelled, "You just murdered her."
Jesus christ these people are fucking morons. "ambushed"? An officer yelling at you with a gun pointed at you is "ambushed"? Who gives a fuck what people yelled.
If these people were on the left they wouldn't even be alive to get convicted. Instead, all but the most egregious get to walk off scot free.
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