Rioter at the attack on the Capitol holds up a piece of mail from Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. | Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA federal magistrate judge on Friday ordered the release of an Arkansas man who became one of the most recognized figures in last week’s Capitol riot by entering House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and being photographed propping his feet up on a desk there.
During the unusually lengthy detention hearing, prosecutors presented Barnett as a dangerous person who had acted deceitfully following the events at the Capitol by turning off the location services on his cell phone, paying only cash and covering his face. Barnett’s defense attorney Anthony Siano countered by calling about half a dozen witnesses to testify to Barnett’s good character and honesty.
The judge said the limits on Barnett’s communications were in response to “concerns the government has regarding the upcoming inauguration and the climate right now." "A defense lawyer in my position might surely be tempted to say to the court that no one who stepped to the podium or that promoted this event has been brought before the bar of justice,” Siano said.
I’m glad someone in fed govt put their thinking cap on and got this denied. We have to come down very very hard on each and every one of these treacherous insurrectionists IF we show any weakness, they will be further emboldened.
Why American medical efficiency is so low?
ComplicKate Note: he's from Arkansas & it's a Trump judge.
Is he still at home or is he on his way back to DC.
America’s version of an ISIS fighter!
🤬🤬🤬
Feds better kick his ugly ass .
He should be in prison not home arrest
The judge was too lenient....white privilege. This guy should have been held in jail until his trial. His actions were illegal and despicable.
They are sending the wrong message to the world by sending this guy home.
House arrest for this pig? Who stormed the Capitol and put his dirty boots on Pelosi’s desk? Richard Barnett is a criminal and an anarchist. He belongs in jail!
GeorgeFloyd didn’t go home. AhmaudArbery didn’t go home. TamirRice didn’t go home. SandraBland didn’t go home. ElijahMcClain didn’t go home. PhilandoCastille didn’t go home. AltonSterling didn’t go home. FreddieGray didn’t go home.
Had he been back... he would be held as a terrorist in max security. bullshitpolice
Lock him up.
Different systems of justice for different people. This guy is a terrorist. Threat him as such!
“Prosecutors in Washington immediately filed an emergency appeal and, after 10pm Friday, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell blocked Barrett's release.” He’s not going anywhere so everyone can calm down a little on this one.
Why didn’t they keep him until after the inauguration? What are they thinking?
This guy doesn't look like he'd be happy even if he won the lottery.
I understand the concept of bail, but if you think this idiot wouldn’t commit violence if cult leader Trump ordered it, you are dead wrong. ConvictTrump
Absolutely appalling. This man ransacked the capitol building and gets to go home to plan his next little bit of sedition!?! Maybe they should’ve hidden a dime bag on him...
Must be nice being White. If it had been Jose or D’Shawn, they’d be in jail with a bail higher than the national debt.
This is not JUSTICE! We have TRAITORS walking free.
oh good, traitors should always be allowed to roam freely in the country they tried to destroy.
Special treatment...as usual🤭
Your prison boyfriend won't be interested in a letter from Nancy Ricky.
Should have kept him in jail
We’re being awfully kind a terrorist these days
Trump appointed?
B.S.
**Please update with new ruling ordering him held, ty!
Law and order are for Black people. White people can be as lawless and as disorderly as they want.
Let’s send a mob in and trash his desk. Tv food tray that is, most likely ..
Too lenient -- too lenient by FAR.
Imagine Ali Ahmed Barnett forcefuly entered and robed the office of the House Speaker
The headline is wrong! Don’t know if the story was updated, but they denied the release. That domestic terrorist is still in prison and will be transferred to Washington.
He should not have been released
If that was me they would have denied my butt to go home until trial.
Why is he being tried in Arkansas? He should be tried where his criminal activity took place...this Arkansas judge is clearly going easy on him
He is not out guys. DC Federal Judge over ruled that decision.
Wtf
⚪️ privilege at its finest 🌝🌚!! Investigate the judge!!
dpakman davidpakmanshow
Is it just me or does he look like one of those Morlocks from The Time Machine?
All of this only happened becus of the Democrats hate for trump. Democrats are to blame.
White privilege.
Which judge and why?
Home arrest....organic food...= white privilege
Who is paying his lawyer?
This is some bullshit...
Should have been held until after President Biden's inauguration.
Why are any of these people being allowed to sleep in their own beds?
Privilege!
And if he had been black he would have rotted in jail. I become increasingly more disgusted daily.
Hey stupid fuck ! This picture is a man standing up
See? The whole circus and the justification why our country is divided and will continue to divided - break into a federal building with use of force and you get to be paroled....
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Are all the judges letting these traitors go home Trump judges.
He won’t do any time.
🤯2 different Justice department
At least he dressed up for the occasion
JanetteGhedotte WTF Hey Siri tell me about White Privilege
Wtf.
That is just effed up!
Maybe Trump can give him a pardon?
This judge can sit and spin
👹
Now you these white people would get off easy
Boo , this is ridiculous. Prison
This pisses me off
Wouldn’t happen if he were black, all I’m saying
One of the many deplorables.
Here we go again with these types of good old boys judges, this is what’s wrong with America. Meanwhile Black people are going to jail for years for stealing bread. This guy broke into a government building, poor him right or should I say poor him white🙄.
If he were black he would be in prison for the foreseeable future. We don’t have a problem with racism in America. Unbelievable
What the fuck!
The Caucascity of it all... Democratic, woman hating of it all. I'm sure the judge patted him on the back and said good job. IfAudacityWasASituation
IndivisibleIL Anything for white people. Just anything.
Will the judge rule the same way if this thug is black?
Are you fucking kidding me?!
Hopefully he’s all covid up and is pres existing
If he was black tell that story
Oh nice so he can go radicalize even more... 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Neither one of the domestic terrorists who waged war on the U.S Capitol should be allowed to have a bond....... this is essentially the judicial aiding and abetting of white supremacy...
soundsaboutwhite
We need new judges, my god.
Meanwhile, a black mother spent time in jail for falsifying her home address, so her children could go to a better school in a different district.
WhitePrivilege
Ahhhhhh... too bad. He won’t be able to come out and play next Wednesday.
So - now everyone is for bail reform, right? Quick- put it into law.
I bet this judge had a Parker account.
Home arrest? What a joke
WTF
Good thing he’s white?🤦♀️
Unbelievable!!
White privilege.
There’s more coming against this guy, I’m thinking.
Wtf
Wonder if they'd treat a black guy with a stun gun who broke into the capital and proped his feet up on the Speakers desk like a hayseed nitwit, would get the same privilege? Probably not, so lock this traitor up.
Just about white privilege! Outrageous!!
Richard Barnett won permission to return home as he awaits trial? What if Barnett was black?
This is the second one I've seen today. Fucking disgusting
Disgusting - this is NOT the message we need
Good thing he isnt black
Where’s the justice?
How are these people being released? They shouldn’t have access to communication with anyone!
Why are they being so soft on him? If he was a POC they would let him languish in jail until his hearing. WhitePrivilege continues.
Isn’t stealing mail a federal offence.
Whyyyyyyyy does he get to stay at home?
Why? He is charged with a felony. Promise you if he was a black man he would be rotting in jail. Unbelievable. He is part of a group who broke into a federal building. So tired of this.
Watch whiteness work
Judges may be going easy on these traitors, but we will make sure they are forever known just that
That’s BULLSHIT!
LOCK HIM UP
Going easy on mob insurrectionists doesn’t make much sense. The chaos & resource consumption of mob activity enables the abhorrent behavior by the few dozen who killed, assaulted, and terrorized. No one inside the capitol that day can be separated from the worst atrocities.
Unfucking believable
WHITE PRIVELEGE
This is captain kangaroo court
That judge aint right in the head (someone look up the batting average for U.S. Magistrate Judge Erin Weidemann on remanding a suspect awaiting trial to home arrest, betcha it's under .050) and appears she's *checks notes* going easy on terrorism
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