I spent inauguration milling around outside the DC jail, waiting for the release of January 6 prisoners. Bonus - a guy
I suppose these 'loyal' Trumpsters will find another cause to gripe about. stay stunned.
I applaud these reporters who wrote about there experiences.
@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
I spent inauguration milling around outside the DC jail, waiting for the release of January 6 prisoners.
Bonus - a guy got hit in the face for Neo Nazi stuff.
https://bsky.app/profile/noturtlesoup17.bsky.social/post/3lggchz4qfs27
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/january-6-pardons-washington-dc-inauguration-trump/
Politics / January 23, 2025
A Night Outside a DC Jail With the January 6 Insurrectionist Fan Club
Neo-Nazis and other right-wing groups celebrated in Washington, DC, as they anticipated the Trump pardons and the release of their incarcerated allies.
Amanda Moore
A person waves a Trump flag as family and friends of imprisoned participants of the January 6, 2021, riot on the US Capitol, wait outside the DC Central Detention Facility in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.
(Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty Images)
Washington, DC—For more than 900 days, right-wing protesters have met at 7 pm on the corner of 18th & E St. SE outside of Washington, DC’s Central Detention Facility. There, they have been calling for the US government to release the incarcerated January 6 defendants held inside the jail. The core members of this group were so dedicated that they uprooted their lives and relocated to DC. And while Monday was cold enough to move the inauguration indoors, it wasn’t cold enough to deter supporters of the J6ers from gathering, just as they have for almost two and a half years at what’s been dubbed Freedom Corner.
On a typical night at Freedom Corner, protesters turn on electronic noisemakers, creating a constant, whirring background noise; they place defendants’ calls on speakerphone and hold it next to a mic. Calls and speeches from their incarcerated allies range from complaints about the food to discussions about “next time you wanna storm the Capitol” or who “needs to swing from the end of a rope.”
So Monday evening, while others were packed into the Capital One Arena to watch Trump’s inauguration parade or getting ready for one of the many black-tie galas, a small group of us were stationed outside of the jail. This time, instead of congregating at the usual corner, we were directly in front of the main entrance. Corner regulars, Donald Trump supporters who had traveled in for inauguration, and members of the press were all waiting to see if the new president would make good on a campaign promise: to pardon the J6ers on day one.
In the crowd, supporters oscillated between being mad at the press for being there and mad at us for not having been there enough. Sure, a J6er had scrawled “murder the media” on one of the Capitol’s doors, but can’t someone pencil in a Freedom Corner protester for a cable-TV interview?
I was with two other female journalists when two right-wing male livestreamers walked up. “Are these your girlfriends?” one man asked the other, in a gruff intimidation tactic. He quickly switched to throwing out random talking points. “You guys hate America or what? I’m just wondering. Hey, guess what? I just want to let you guys know. Trump won, fuckers.”........................