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Pardoned Capitol rioter who said Jan. 6 officer 'needs to be put down' is charged (www.nbcnews.com)

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Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang has been charged with making threatening statements about one of the officers he faced off with at the U.S. Capitol

Lang was seen on camera at a Jan. 6 fifth-anniversary event this year, telling Metropolitan Police Cmdr. Jason Bagshaw that he should be “put down like a dead dog” and "hung" in front of the Capitol.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260304132735/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/jan-6-rioter-jake-lang-arrested-threat-dc-police-officer-rcna261395

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[–] officermike@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Moron received a get-out-of-jail-free card and threw it away. Moron.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

It’s just a misdemeanor tho. A fine, possibly community service at most.

Lang, a white supremacist and pro-Trump influencer, was among the more than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants Trump pardoned upon his return to office in January 2025. Lang's actions at the Capitol were extensively documented in cellphone, body camera and CCTV video. He bragged about his actions on Instagram, calling the mob "an organized unit of patriots trying to take on tyrants."

While Lang was one of just a handful of rioters held in pretrial detentionbecause of what a Trump-appointed judge called the "very strong" evidence against him, along with his "overt expressions of willingness to use violence in the future," he was not convicted, and his trial did not happen before Trump pardoned him.

What an outstanding human.