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Meet the January 6 Cop Assaulters Our President Calls “Hostages”

In September 2024, the Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police organization in the United States, endorsed Donald Trump for president. Even at the time, this was a dumb move, given Trump’s felony conviction four months earlier and his stated intent to use the criminal justice system to prosecute Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Liz Cheney, and other political enemies.

Yet Patrick Yoes, the FOP’s national president, said that among the group’s 377,000 members “there was no doubt—zero doubt—as to who they want as our president for the next four years: Donald J. Trump.” To the FOP rank and file, all that mattered was that “in the summer of 2020,” when the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sent protesters out into the streets, “he stood with us when very few would.”

The downside to a president who tolerates the police beating up Black people, it turns out, is that he also tolerates white people beating up police. On January 6, 2020, as rioters attacked the Capitol to prevent its certification of an election Trump lost—assaulting more than 140 police officers in the process—Trump waited more than three hours before urging these supporters to go home. By the start of this year, 89 people had pleaded guilty to felony assault of a police officer, and 76 had been tried and convicted of assaulting, resisting, impeding, and/or obstructing officers during a civil disorder. Trump granted all these people clemency Monday, along with every other January 6 defendant, and issued pardons for nearly everybody.

Let’s meet some of these “hostages,” as Trump calls them.

Julian Khater sprayed bear spray at three police officers, one of whom, Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, collapsed after returning to his district office and was taken to the hospital. Sicknick suffered two strokes and died the next day. The only reason Khater wasn’t charged with murder was that the D.C. medical examiner for some reason concluded Sicknick died of natural causes (even as he conceded that “all that transpired played a role in his condition”). Khater pleaded guilty and got six years.

Daniel “D.J.” Rodriguez was caught on camera shocking District Metropolitan police officer Michael Fanone with a stun gun (video here). Fanone lost consciousness and was taken by a fellow officer to the hospital, where he was told he’d suffered a heart attack, a concussion, and a traumatic brain injury. The day before Rodriguez had written on Telegram: “There will be blood. Welcome to the revolution.” But when FBI agents asked him why he did it, Rodriguez wept and apologized, as January 6 defendants tend to when they get caught. (See my November 2021 piece, “The January 6 Defendants Are the Most Pathetic Revolutionaries I Ever Saw.”) “I don’t know,” Rodriguez said. “I’m a piece of shit. I’m sorry… I didn’t know that we were doing the wrong thing.” Rodriguez pleaded guilty and got 12 years.

Robert Scott Palmer sprayed police with a fire extinguisher, then pitched the empty canister at them. He also picked up a wooden plank and threw it at the cops. “I’m so ashamed that I was a part of it,” he told the judge. “Very, very ashamed.” Palmer pleaded guilty and got fire years.

Steven Chase Randolph was sentenced to eight years for striking a Capitol Police officer named Caroline Edwards in the face with a metal crowd control barrier. Ryan Samsel was convicted of the same thing but hadn’t yet been sentenced and now won’t be. Samsel was the first rioter to breach the police perimeter on January 6. A Justice Department sentencing memo recommended that he get 20 years, in part because he was still justifying his actions years later.

Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes, the leaders, respectively, of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, were sentenced to 22 years and 18 years, respectively, for seditious conspiracy in organizing the January 6 assault. “Make no mistake,” Tarrio said on social media. “We did this.”

All of these people will now go free—Tarrio and Rhodes are already out—and all but Rhodes received pardons, too. Also sprung is Brent “Zeeker” Bozell IV, scion of a leading conservative family and my favorite January 6 felon. Zeeker was sentenced to 45 months, for assaulting police (among other offenses), but mostly, I suspect, for telling such idiotically transparent lies during his trial, as I documented here. The Bozell dynasty lives to fight another day.

I emailed the FOP seeking comment on Trump’s act of mercy for cop-beaters, and got no reply. (They told S.V. Dáte of The Huffington Post “We don’t have a statement about that.”) As for the January 6 felons, I wonder whether any of them would still say they regret their actions on that day. But I don’t wonder very hard.

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The Ashton Jeanty Bears Smoke Just Got Even Thicker

The draft is three weeks away now. GM Ryan Poles and head coach Ben Johnson have pieced together an off-season that is earning widespread praise across the league. The question is whether they can stick the landing with their 1st round pick in the draft. Current projections have the top three picks likely being a mix of Cam Ward, Travis Hunter, and Abdul Carter. After that, it gets tricky. People in Chicago want to know where running back Ashton Jeanty will end once the dust settles.

Widespread belief has been that the Las Vegas Raiders are the heavy favorites to take him at 6th overall, with New Orleans at #9 also being a possibility. It makes sense. Las Vegas’ best option right now is a 33-year-old Raheem Mostert. New Orleans knows Alvin Kamara turns 30 in July. Both teams need to think about the future at that position. Both have head coaches who like to run the ball. One thing is clear. A source told SM that those around the league believe one thing is certain.

“He likely won’t get passed Chicago if he falls that far.”

Ashton Jeanty is a strong probability for the Bears.

Whispers from Halas Hall indicate they love the Boise State star. It isn’t hard to see why. He nearly broke Barry Sanders’ single-season rushing record in 2024, nearly winning the Heisman in the process. The guy carried his team to the college football playoffs. He’s built like a brick house with power, speed, contact balance, and vision. There aren’t any truly glaring weaknesses in his game. He’s earned comparisons to the likes of LaDainian Tomlinson and Marshawn Lynch. The Bears haven’t had a back of that caliber since Matt Forte.

Try to imagine what this offense could look like with Ashton Jeanty, Rome Odunze, D.J. Moore, and Cole Kmet all as options for quarterback Caleb Williams. Throw all of it into Johnson’s offense, and you can understand why some people around the league aren’t wild about the idea. They are quietly hoping Jeanty goes somewhere else. One thing is certain. If he gets past the Raiders, the noise will get loud in a hurry. It would mark the first time in 20 years the Bears have taken a running back in the 1st round.

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