Despite a massive and unprecedented nation-wide FBI manhunt for rioters (or anyone, violent or not) involved in the January 6 Capitol siege, not really being paralleled by anything similar for violent BLM rioters, FBI Director Christopher Wray insists the FBI isn’t being tougher on the Jan. 6 rioters.
However, many observers familiar with the Bureau’s aggressive investigation of the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 see a huge disparity with its, and the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ’s) more lackluster response to violence and unrest by Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters across the country during the spring and summer of 2020.
This is especially true concerning the months-long attacks by BLM, Antifa and other extremists on the U.S. federal courthouse and law enforcement officers in Portland, Oregon, and the violent attacks on local and federal police and property across from the White House in May and June 2020.
The latter violent riot in DC, I personally witnessed and reported on at the time.
Politico reports:
Speaking in California, Wray offered his most detailed public rebuttal yet to critiques of the bureau put forward in recent months by some Republican lawmakers and other allies of former President Donald Trump, as well as attorneys for those charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot.
“We have one standard, which is: I don’t care whether you’re upset about an election or upset at our criminal justice system,” Wray said during an appearance at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Monday night. “Whatever it is you’re upset about, there’s a right way and a wrong way to express your being upset in this country and violence — violence against law enforcement, destruction of property — is not it. …That’s what the rule of law is about.”
Many wish this were true.
The FBI chief added:
We have in both instances opened hundreds of investigations — in both. We’ve made hundreds of arrests — in both. We’ve used nearly all 56 of our field offices, including our joint terrorism task forces — in both. We’ve used investigative publicity, most wanted posters, and things like that — in both. We’re aggressively pursuing both.
Yet many remain unconvinced. Federal judge Trevor McFadden, for one, has publicly criticized the DOJ for being far too lenient toward violent BLM rioters who caused property damage in Washington in the summer of 2020. Politico notes McFadden said at a sentencing hearing for a Capitol riot defendant last October:
I think the U.S. Attorney’s Office would have more credibility if it was evenhanded in its concern about riots and mobs in this city.
In a December ruling, McFadden also expressed astonishment that the federal government had dropped many of the charges against rioters in Portland, Ore., including some accused of assaulting federal officers:
Rarely has the Government shown so little interest in vigorously prosecuting those who attack federal officers.
The judge did note there were some differences between the federal courthouse attacks and the Capitol siege, since the Capitol complex was fully occupied when the mob stormed in on Jan. 6, while most of the Portland protests directed at the federal courthouse there took place late at night.
McFadden, a Trump appointee, wrote: “Members of Congress cowered under chairs while staffers blockaded themselves in offices, fearing physical attacks from the rioters.”
What the judge failed to recall is that the Secret Service had to rush President Trump into the secure underground bunker at the White House at one point on May 31, 2020, because they feared the Presidential compound might be overrun by BLM thugs after some had breached the temporary fencing nearby.
The BLM riots and Capitol Riot have many more similarities than many want to admit. And the FBI and DOJ appear to be only treating them superficially similarly.
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I’m at a lost for words, this guy is an IDIOT!
He is a partisan Democrat progressive hack. Rules for Republicans, no rules for Marxist Democrats.
Christopher Wray should be Fired. The American people know there is a real disparity in how the Jan 6 protesters are treated compared to the BLM and Antifa that actually murdered , burned and destroyed property.
I want real punishments. Jail time, fired from job and take away his pension. Make it hurt!
How ridiculous of Wray… doesn’t he know we have television and the internet now filled with the destruction, murders and rapes committed by BLM and Antifa. Thousands of criminals under their control and virtually none prosecuted. The FBI should have made Hunter’s laptop information public and prosecuted the entire Biden family and yet nothing from Wray and the FBI. The FBI appears to be incredibly rotten at the top and at this point should be held accountable.
.LISTEN UP….GOD Says….The CAPITOL PROTESTERS are Being TREATED Like…SCU M of the EARTH…THEY are Treated like POW’S. Some Need MEDICAL CARE. THEY are AMERICANS…PATRIOTS…TREAT THEM with RESPECT or ANSWER to GOD. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄😇😇😇
It’s almost unbelievable that an F.B.I. director can make these claims. It’s kinda like a rioters caught on video throwing a molotov cocktail but claiming that it was his twin that threw it. I firmly believe that the left believes that if they say something often enough it becomes true.
WRAY is a clown
Why isn’t he in jail? We all have witnessed already how crooked he is!
The FBI Top brASS are traitors!
wether Trump or DeSantas is elected President they have to clean house and rid the DOJ of these criminals, these people need to be in jail for the way they are treating Americans
The DOJ is part of the swamp and they need to be terminated permantly
How do these people lie like this and live with themselves. They have sold their souls . Everyone knows he is bold face lying and yet nothing will happen to him . Should be fired tomorrow!
It is incredible how these liberals lie and keep a straight face. He must think everyone is stupid. There is night and day difference in the way leftists are treated compared to the conservatives, demonstrated daily by the Biden administration.
LISTEN UP….ANYONE Who is NOT a FRIEND to ISRAEL is GOD’S Enemy. GOD Destroys HIS ENEMIES. From SamuraiQueen. 😤😤😤😡😡😡
liar commie cult member!
Feds are tougher on J6 than the 2020 rioters to date day 1
Just more LIES from the FBI as usual from anyone who has access to the corrupt WHITE HOUSE and the government right now under the IDIOT democRATS anf the Biden-Harris idiots.
As usual, my comment offended someone and is being judged for approval.
Apparently, Christopher Wray is either a liar or an idiot who is controlled by liars. By the way, why did Christopher Ray and other corrupt justices bury Hunter Biden’s laptop and say nothing about it thereby assisting Nasty Nancy and her lying comrades to impeach Trump for questioning Hunter and Joe Biden’s treasonous activities and hiding evidence proving that they knew it was a bogus impeachment. No one would know about the evidence proving treason by a Presidential candidate and his family if the computer repair store owner hadn’t realized that he’d handed the evidence over to a dishonest Judicial System. Because the store owner kept a copy of the laptop and, many months later, turned the evidence over to an honest person who believed in transparency, we now know that Christopher Wray withheld vital evidence which made him an accomplice to complete corruption and interference in an impeachment and also a Presidential election. Wray should be in prison for this election and impeachment interference.
wray needs to be FIRED…he is LYING, he is treating the political prisoners WAY WORSE than blm (BLACK KKK), the corrupt fbi needs to be dismantled…they are too corrupt
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Why was this fraud at the Reagan Library?