Last week, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posted a tweet claiming the United States has a “two-tiered” justice system. “Antifa & BLM rioters roam free while peaceful January 6 protesters are imprisoned without bail,” he wrote. “Biden’s ‘Department of Injustice’ has executed over 1,000 arrests for nonviolent offenses related to January 6.” He vowed that as president, he would pardon “targets of politicized federal prosecutions & those denied due process.”
The claim that peaceful January 6 protesters have been held without bail, which has become widespread in some quarters of the right, is false.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, as of September 7, 2023, more than 1,146 individuals have been arrested in connection with the Capitol riot in nearly all 50 states, including 398 charged with assaulting or impeding a law enforcement officer. Details and documentation for every arrest made thus far are publically available on the Department of Justice website. According to NPR—which has been separately tracking every criminal case related to the storming of the Capitol—632 of the arrestees have been sentenced thus far, 64 percent of whom have received prison time, and the median sentence has been 120 days.
While it is true that some arrestees have been held without bail, this is only the case for those defendants who have been deemed to be at high risk of obstructing justice, a danger to the community, or a flight...
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