Court-Martialed Military Veteran Sentenced to Over 4 Years in Prison for Capitol Riot Attack

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: US News and World Report/AP

Nov. 18, 2024, at 12:56 p.m.


WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. Army soldier who was court-martialed for fatally shooting a handcuffed civilian in Iraq two decades ago was sentenced on Monday to more than four years in prison for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Edward Richmond Jr. attacked police officers with a metal baton during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Richmond, 41, of Geismar, Louisiana, said he immediately regretted his actions that day. “It was wrong. It was foolish. It was not thought-out. It was spur of the moment,” Richmond said before U.S. District Judge John Bates sentenced him to four years and three months behind bars.

The judge said Richmond appeared to be genuinely remorseful for joining one of the most violent episodes of the Capitol riot — a clash between rioters and outnumbered officers inside a tunnel entrance. “Your conduct was pretty terrible. You've recognized that,” Bates said.

More than 1,500 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the Capitol riot. More than 650 of them have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from a few days to 22 years.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-11-18/court-martialed-military-veteran-sentenced-to-over-4-years-in-prison-for-capitol-riot-attack

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. The orange carbuncle will pardon him

[Evolve Dammit]

2. And yet no charges on who paid for it and orchestrated it. Garland, I have no words for your inability to administer

justice to the real criminals. Just low-hanging fruit seems to be the DOJ way. And you are about to come into serious repercussions for the ineptness.
Good Luck.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "And yet no charges on who paid for it and orchestrated it."

?????

What were these?





There needs to be some serious education about "charges" and "indictments" (which are "charges" ) and so many other things associated with the justice system.

[moniss]

10. There were others who financed this

as well.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. But many on DU are claiming "no charges" have ever been brought against the "top guy"

including those who think those "under" the "top guy" are irrelevant because someone needs to go after the one "directing them" FIRST.

[moniss]

12. I hear you on that I just wanted to clarify that there were mulitple

sources funding the whole thing.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. There are people who are listed as "unindicted co-conspirators" on all of the cases

(both federal and state) and at any time, superseding indictments could have been issued.

I think the intent was to make the case as tight as possible to reduce any chance of a long drawn out process when you have many defendants fighting the charges as part of the one case and adding even more delays.

But the courts made sure that even a "tight", "slam-dunk" case was not going to move either.

We can thank John Roberts for that. DOJ did their job and Roberts torpedoed the whole thing.

[moniss]

14. In conspiracy cases the phrase "unindicted co-conspirators"

isn't necessarily an indication that there is a known list. It gets used as boilerplate catch-all, similar to using John Doe 1 through 100, so that it covers any people that may be found later and as you noted a revised filing can be made. It can also be a combo of having a cooperating witness who is "iffy" and so you don't indict by name but if they turn sour you can revise and add them in to being a named defendant. It can be a mishmash of all of the above.

Sometimes these conspiracy cases don't follow the traditional "get the little fish to rat on the big fish and keep working your way up" approach. I'm not saying they could have or should have immediately gone for the top but a couple of notches down like the funders of the motel rooms, buses etc. might have chastened some others on that same or nearly same level.

At the end of the day a major problem we have is the inability to get the incidents like 1/6 declared to be acts of terror and to label the support groups as terror groups. If we could, I doubt the political will is ever going to be there however, we could more easily and rapidly go after the ones who fund such things.

[RandomNumbers]

3. 4 years. I didn't have to see his picture to know he's white.

If he were black and it were any other time a guy was beating a cop - he'd be dead. And if somehow NOT dead, he'd get a helluva lot more than 4 years.


Of course there were very few non-white insurrectionists at the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol. (I don't know of any that I recall, but I presume there were a few)


Dude is a complete nutjob. SURE it was "spur of the moment". Just check out the photo in this article:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/he-was-court-martialed-for-shooting-a-man-in-iraq-now-hes-going-to-prison-for-assaulting-police-on-jan-6-edward-richmond-veteran-army-louisiana/65-bc5856c8-e111-4fab-884a-93858759d3e2

Nope, no premeditation of violence there at all ...

[3Hotdogs]

6. --- looking at the photo, cosplaying jerk-off.

[3Hotdogs]

5. --- and he only got three years for the murder in Iraq.

[cstanleytech]

7. "court-martialed for fatally shooting a handcuffed civilia" Code for murdering?

[Jacson6]

8. His Court-martial conviction

Mr. Richmond, who served in the Army from 2002 to 2008, was court-martialed and found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. According to The Associated Press, Mr. Richmond killed a cow herder who had been detained along with other men in an Iraqi village that the Army raided on Feb. 28, 2004. Mr. Richmond shot the herder in the back of the head from six feet away as the man, who has handcuffed, stumbled.

Mr. Richmond was convicted in August 2004 and sentenced to a reduction in rank to private, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, three years’ confinement and a dishonorable discharge, according to the U.S. Army. He was released on parole in 2006 with almost a year remaining on his original sentence, The A.P. reported.

Mr. Richmond testified at his court-martial that he thought the herder had a weapon and lunged to attack another soldier, The A.P. reported. He said he didn’t know that his hands had been bound.

From the NY Times web site. This dude has an excuse for everything.

[purr-rat beauty]

9. Could he be called back to duty...

and Court-Martialed again due to the circumstances of his crime - attacking a Federal building and personnel/domestic terrorism

possibly land him 10 at Leavenworth

remorseful my ass