Judicial decisions regarding those investigated for the assault on the Capitol on January 6 have sparked fierce controversy from public opinion, which
denounces that the justice system in the United States is marked by a racial bias
that grants privileges to whites.
A Washington DC judge granted permission to Jenny Cudd, a white Texas florist who was at the headquarters of Congress the day a mob of former President Donald Trump supporters assaulted her, to make a trip to Mexico with "his employees and their spouses ”.
The woman explained, when she requested authorization from the judge earlier this week, that she had already paid for the stay before the taking of the Capitol.
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Cudd is currently on probation prior to the holding of a trial against her,
accused
of entering a restricted property and disturbing public order
.
In addition, a federal investigative jury indicted her on three additional charges: three additional charges: obstruction of the work of an agent, disorderly conduct in the Capitol, as well as parading, protesting or demonstrating there.
Jenny Cudd, center, owner of a flower shop and former mayoral candidate for Midland, retires with another person (behind her) Wednesday, Jan. 13, from federal court in Midland, Texas.
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In his decision on Friday, federal judge Trevor McFadden stressed that the defendant had no criminal record and there are no elements that show that there is a risk that she will run away or pose a danger to other people.
Cudd organized a four-day trip, scheduled for this month
.
It is not yet clear whether Mexico will allow him to enter the country.
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On Facebook, she said that same day of the assault that she was "proud" of her actions, according to a criminal complaint.
In the same week, another federal judge ordered prison authorities to provide organic food to Jacob Chansley, a white man currently detained after appearing on Capitol Hill that day with his face painted, a hat with horns and no garment on top. from her body.
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His attorney had maintained that
Chansley went without food for nine days in jail in Washington DC because they did not serve organic food there
, which according to this man - who defines himself "the shaman of QAnon" - is part of his "belief system and shamanic way of life ".
Following that request, Judge Royce Lamberth requested that the prisoner be transferred to a jail in the state of Virginia, where he
believed that the requested diet could be provided
.
Chansley has charges against him for civil disorder, obstruction and disorderly conduct, among others.
He assured that he went to the assault on the Capitol "at the request of the president," according to court records.
Jacob Chansley (right), on January 6 at the Capitol with other assailants at the headquarters of Congress.
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These types of decisions in favor of those investigated for the events of January 6 generate indignation among several observers.
"As we see over and over in the news, and as numerous studies point out,
white people are treated much better than
everyone else, from their first interaction with law enforcement until sentencing," journalist Dean Obeidallah opined in a column on the website of our sister network MSNBC.
As a comparison to the Jenny Cudd case, there was that of Kalief Browder, a 16-year-old black teenager arrested in New York in 2010 after being accused of stealing a backpack.
Since his family was unable to post the $ 3,000 bond, Browder was sent to jail,
where he stayed for three years, two of them in solitary confinement
, before the case was shelved.
Browder took his own life in 2015.
“Browder was not part of an attack on our Capitol that left a police officer dead and 140 other officers injured,” wrote Obeidallah, “he did not boast of having committed the crime of which he was accused, nor did he swear that he would do it again. , like Cudd has done ”.
And he put this question to the audience: "How do you think a judge would have responded if he had asked permission to go to Mexico for a four-day retreat?"
A similar opinion is that written on Twitter by the correspondent of Noticias Telemundo in Washington DC Cristina Londoño when commenting on the Chansley case.
“There are children detained at the border.
Has anyone been concerned because they like the menu? ”Was his message.
With information from NBC News, AP, BuzzFeed News, MSNBC.