The Washington D.C. Jail - where dozens of Capitol rioters are housed before their trials - is like 'Guantanamo Bay', a lawyer representing one of the protestors told DailyMail.com.
The suspects are held in solitary confinement in cells the 'size of a walk-in closets' for up 24 hours a day and treated like 'domestic terrorists' by jail guards after several law enforcement officers were injured and killed during the January 6 violence at the Capitol, lawyer Joseph McBride said.
McBride, who represents Richard 'Bigo' Barnett, 60, of Arkansas - the man known for putting his feet up on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk - claimed that the guards are 'roughing up' the siege suspects to show solidarity with law enforcement who protected the Capitol.
'The DC Central Detention Facility has become Guantanamo Bay for American Citizens,' McBride told DailyMail.com.
'In the eyes of the Federal Government, the 2021 Trump supporter is the 2001 religious Muslim. This is demonstrated by the fact that Trump Supporters, type casted as extremists, are being illegally detained pretrial by the United States Government.'
Nearly all of the Capitol protest suspects have spent time in the Washington D.C. Jail, where they await their trials.
The Washington D.C. Department of Corrections didn't respond to multiple calls and emails for interview or say how many are currently being housed.
McBride said guards told his client and other '1/6ers' that 'the world hates them,' 'they'll be forgotten' and 'they'll spend the rest of their lives in here,' among other disparaging remarks.
There's a pending grievance against one of the guards who allegedly threatened to sexually assault Barnett's wife.
Another Capitol rioter, Ryan Samsel, was allegedly beaten by a guard so badly that he may lose an eye and has had his jaw wired shut, his lawyer Elisabeth Pasqualini said in media interviews.
'(The jail guards) do their best to get guys to break us down mentally,' Barnett said in an email to DailyMail.com. 'We did our best to help out whatever guy was suffering that day.'
Anyone charged in connection with the January 6 siege of the Capitol is given 'maximum security' designation for their protection and placed in 'restrictive housing,' according to court documents from several Capitol protest suspects.
So Antifa punks are running the jails sounds like? When are those trials?
ReplyDeleteThe lawyers should proceed then with lawsuits, or sooner, if rights are being violated. Does our Justice System work anymore though?
Clearly not! It has been so completely corrupted that one can only buy justice these days. Lawlessness abounds. We can KNOW Christ is turning the knob on the door as we speak! Come quickly Lord!
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