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132 Violent Criminals Pardoned; Need Crowdsource Help ASAP [1]

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Date: 2025-01-22

In previous comments, I have said:

The best way to get Trumplicans to own what they did is to name the pardoned and detail the crimes they were convicted of, particularly those who committed assaults on police officers . News articles to date are too general; we need names and facts. It’s easy for Trumplicans to look away, move along, if they just read about “hundreds of January 6 defendants, including leaders of the Oath Keepers” being pardoned; more difficult if they read that Trump pardoned, among others, Robert Palmer, who “attacked police officers with a fire extinguisher, wooden plank, and a pole.” . . . But I’d like even more detail about even more pardonees. I’d like to read the charging documents and convictions.

Fortunately, Newsweek just published a complete, alphabetized list of 132 criminals convicted of violent assaults against police officers who were pardoned by Trump. However, their list only includes general descriptions of the offenses (typically, “assault with a deadly or dangerous weapon”) and the sentences received. There is no description of the offenses.

But, Department of Justice press releases, including dramatic descriptions of the crimes committed, can still be found. For example:

Matthew Jason Beddingfield : According to court documents, on Jan. 6, 2021, at approximately 12:58 p.m., Beddingfield jumped over a barricade and charged toward a group of U.S. Capitol Police officers who were near the scaffolding that had previously been erected outside the southwest side of the building. A crowd surrounded the officers. At approximately 1:06 p.m., Beddingfield attacked the officers, jabbing at them with a metal flagpole he had brought with him. Soon thereafter, Beddingfield can be seen throwing a metal rod at law enforcement. . . . According to the government’s sentencing memorandum, when Beddingfield committed these acts, he was on conditions of pretrial release in Johnston County, North Carolina, while awaiting trial there on a charge of attempted murder . www.justice.gov/...

Beddingfield was as far as I got in researching the alphabetized list when I realized, at a rate of two hours per day (and I’ve already spent more than three hours on this today), it would take me a month or more to produce a complete list, but these are the stories that need to be published, and as quickly as possible.

Also, and even more important, these stories may disappear if we don’t act quickly. Trump’s administration already is deleting information from government websites. There is a good chance the DOJ’s press releases relating to these criminals may be deleted as well. Court documents may remain, but will be more difficult to locate. A simple google name search retrieves the DOJ press releases.

Would you please help by selecting a few names and providing relevant information from their DOJ press releases, along with a link to the DOJ press release. If you add that information to your comments here, I will add them to a document I am compiling, and we can publish it here. (It can be published under any name; I have no pride of authorship, I just want the information to get out there, as quickly as possible.)

It may also be a good idea to save a screen shot or some other evidence that the press release ever existed.

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