Name:   phil - Subject:   Followup Date:   4/16/2021 10:17:40 AM

Rep. Markwayne Mullin took aim at FBI Director Cristopher Wray during a House Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, questioning what he sees as the FBI’s double standard in prosecuting Capitol rioters and those in Portland.

“Under the Biden administration, there appears to be a wave of leniency being granted to individuals arrested for federal crimes in Portland,” Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, said during the hearing. “Federal prosecutors are apparently approving deferred resolution agreements in a number of cases and allowing perpetrators to do community service and avoid jail time and criminal records. Why are we seeing such a disparity between the individuals charged on Jan. 6 and those that are charged in Portland?”

Wray at first responded by pinning the blame on local prosecutors, noting that the FBI only investigates the crimes but does not make decisions about prosecution.

Looks like someone from the House or Reps has the same concerns I do regarding the differences in FEDERAL charges between the summer of love riots and Jan 6th.  Currently to date there are more the 700 officers injured in riots that are not associated with Jan 6th vs the one who died after the 6th  that may or may not have been related to the what happened that day.  The first reports was that he was beated to death with a extinguisher, which proved to be false reporting.  

What we do know is that a someone in the capital building executed a woman for climbing through a window - was she chanting death to anyone?  We do not know, but we do know cities have and are burning for people who have committed far worse crimes.