White Supremacist Oklahoma Judge Feels Sorry For Capitol Rioters

     In spite of what most people are saying, I think the Department of Justice is doing a good job handling the Capitol riot cases. Of the 15 or so people who have been sentenced, all but one have been for misdemeanor cases, and that felony was for property damage; no one who assaulted police has been sentenced yet. The average sentence so far has been roughly 90 days behind bars with two or three years of probation, extensive community service, and fines. The fines will be enough to repair the damage done to the Capitol, and the misdemeanor pleas will keep cases moving in what people forget is the largest criminal investigation in American history. Surpassing expectations, more than 700 people have been arrested in just nine months, and we could very well see numbers pass 1,000 as people continue to be identified and those who have pled guilty continue to identify co-conspirators.

     However, a judge in Oklahoma just exposed both his own racism and the vulnerability of the process when he gave a Capitol rioter the lightest sentence that will ever be given to a Capitol rioter. U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden may come from a faction that claims to hate "activist judges," but he is the dictionary definition. Appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017, McFadden's entire career on the federal bench has been marked by right-wing tendencies. In 2019, McFadden was the federal judge who ruled in favor of Trump in a House lawsuit accusing him of abusing his power by diverting military funds to the border wall through the declaration of a state of emergency. His ruling was overturned by an appellate judge, and Trump's wall was halted. He also ruled in favor of Trump in lawsuits seeking his tax returns and refused to recuse himself from other Trump-related cases in spite of having donated to and served on the Trump transition team. Earlier this year, he made headlines when he allowed another rioter, Jenny Cudd, to take a trip to Mexico while on bond. Now, he has given Danielle Nicole Doyle, a former Oklahoma City Thunder employee who has since been fired, a sentence of two months of probation. The prosecutors had asked for two months behind bars and two years of probation. I don't think that Judge McFadden understands that months of probation is not a legal concept that should exist. McFadden also stated that the prosecutors would have been "more credible" if they had treated Black Lives Matter protestors more harshly. While calling Doyle a "national embarrassment," he seemed unaware of the differences between the Capitol riot and Black Lives Matter protests. Of the tens of millions of protestors who participated in the 2020 protests, only 30,000 were arrested; more than half of these cases were dropped or dismissed, and almost all the rest were misdemeanors like curfew violation, trespass, and disorderly conduct. The feds did pick up 300 cases for acts like arson, and the average sentence for these cases was over 27 months in prison. No, Black Lives Matter protestors are not being let off more easily than Capitol rioters. Don't try telling that to Judge McFadden, though; he's a political hack who hates a movement led by and for black Americans. The only bright spot was Doyle receiving the highest fine of any conviction: $3510. 

     I'd like to contrast Danielle Doyle's sentence to that of Andrew Ryan Bennett. A Columbia, Maryland, man, Bennett was chanting "break it down" near the site of Ashli Babbitt's shooting while wearing a Proud Boys hat. Subsequent investigations revealed he wasn't a member, but an "admirer." Bennett streamed his actions live on Facebook four separate times during the riot. Prosecutors asked for, and received, a sentence of 90 days house arrest, two years of probation, 80 hours of community service, and $500 in fines. The presiding judge stated that he would have gone further if the Department of Justice had asked for it, reminding Bennett that, whether or not he committed violence, he was a disgrace to his country. 

     Even further contrast can be found in the case of Matthew Carl Mazzocco, a 37-year-old man from San Antonio, Texas. He was arrested On January 18th, 2021, and fired from his job as a loan consultant the following day. He has posted a selfie of himself saying "the capital [sic] is ours," which one would expect of an inbred idiot who might storm the U.S. Capitol. After pleading guilty in