Around the holidays, the media loves to hype up their usual story about the inevitable “Fox News Uncle” who’ll show up at your family gatherings—the out-of-touch, “racist” redneck who watches Fox News, hates minorities, and apparently wishes Hitler was running the show, or something like that. It’s the same tired trope they use to paint conservatives as intolerant hate mongers who worship the Third Reich and can’t wait to imprison gay people. By now, most of us just roll our eyes at this silliness because we know that there are people out there who are far more hateful and intolerant than we are, and they are called liberals.
Which brings us to a story about a young man who was involved in January 6. His name is John M. Cameron and he was charged and eventually convicted for being inside the Capitol (peacefully) for 19 minutes.
John M. Cameron, a real estate broker, was charged in January and was the last Kitsap County man to be accused of crimes in the melee of former President Donald Trump supporters who delayed the certification of President Joe Biden’s election.
Cameron is the first of the three men to have his charges settled by agreeing to plead guilty to a single count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a capitol building. Cameron could face up to six months in jail.
In exchange for prosecutors dropping three other charges, Cameron agreed to cooperate with investigators by letting them look through his social media accounts and pay $500 toward the $1.5 million in damage sustained during the upheaval, according to documents filed May 4 in the U.S. District Court for Washington D.C.
Cameron signed documents admitting he participated in the riot by entering restricted areas of the U.S. Capitol for about 19 minutes.
Outside the door leading into the upper west terrace, before entering, Cameron made a video of himself saying: “Civil disobedience has kicked in. … You can judge, we all can judge, whether this is illegal or not. But if this is what it takes to be heard, because our votes aren’t, then this is what happens.”
Court records say Cameron left the building after a police officer ordered him out.
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