January 6 Defendants Call Pardons a ‘Wonderful First Step.’ Police Say They’re a Betrayal

National Review

“… Like many other J6ers, Harris noted the discrepancy between the way government came down hard on them while taking a kid-glove approach to leftist rioters who burned and damaged cities such as Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland in the summer of 2020.

“The bottom line is, there has to be equality under the law,” he said. “If they’re going to say that these other instances are First Amendment–protected speech that maybe gets a little out of hand here and there, and we’re not going to bring the full weight of government down on every protest, which would stifle the expression of free speech — then you have to apply that law equally on both sides of the aisle. And it clearly wasn’t.”  Read more