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BumRushDaShow

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Mon May 20, 2024, 02:05 PM May 20

'We could have burnt that place to the ground': Jan. 6 rioter who was willing to 'die or do 20 years' enters guilty plea

Source: Law & Crime

May 20th, 2024, 10:22 am


A Georgia man who boasted online after Jan. 6, 2021, about rushing police at the Capitol and declared that he would “die or do 20 years” before his children grew up in a country “these people are trying to create,” has entered a guilty plea. Zylas “Zee” Hamilton pleaded guilty to two counts of his four-count indictment including disorderly and disruptive conduct in a Capitol building or grounds and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

A count of knowingly entering the building and one other disorderly conduct charge will be dropped as a result of this plea. As Law&Crime previously reported, the braggadocio that Hamilton littered social media with, along with photos and videos of his foray inside the Capitol, helped lead to his arrest.

The FBI said it received a tip just days after Jan. 6 that showed a screenshot between Hamilton and another Facebook user where he admitted to being in the Capitol building. He went on to say in the chat that he “rushed” police, causing him to be “maced, tear gassed and shot with a rubber bullet in the shoulder.”

In his plea with federal prosecutors, Hamilton admits that he entered the Capitol through a Senate wing door “while a blaring alarm sounded” and that he understood he wasn’t supposed to be there. He walked through the Capitol’s first floor, went through the Crypt and stayed inside for 14 minutes. He obscured his face and ultimately exited through a Senate wing door after climbing through a broken window.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/we-could-have-burnt-that-place-to-the-ground-jan-6-rioter-who-was-willing-to-die-or-do-20-years-enters-guilty-plea/

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'We could have burnt that place to the ground': Jan. 6 rioter who was willing to 'die or do 20 years' enters guilty plea (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 20 OP
I hope when he gets out of prison, I hope he finds his children woke and liberal. nt Gore1FL May 20 #1
Statements like that fly in the face of MAGA politicians and Fox hosts who claim * Oopsie Daisy May 20 #2
Sucker.. Brainwashed Idiot! "Die" for a Treasonous Grifter. Cha May 20 #3
Hope he Rebl2 May 20 #4
The brain washing is completely manifested in this jamoke. Evolve Dammit May 20 #5
I heard a snippet of Vance saying we need to slightlv May 20 #6
Willing to throw his life away for a guy who neither knows nor cares that he exists Rhiannon12866 May 21 #7

slightlv

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6. I heard a snippet of Vance saying we need to
Mon May 20, 2024, 11:21 PM
May 20

learn from Orban; that he had good lessons to teach us on running a country. Excuse me, but we've had over 250 years experience doing this; and just because the Repugs aren't smart enough to retain that knowledge doesn't mean the rest of us have forgotten!

Besides, I like the Social European models. Their people are happier, more secure, they have decent safety nets, with less stress and worry to contend with every day. They even have standards for vacation, sick, and parental leave. Not like here, where too many of us go to work sick as a dog and just pass the germs on to everyone around us.

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