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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5961762" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>“This was not a peaceful protest. Hundreds of people came to Washington, DC, to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power,” Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the DC District Court <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/politics/capitol-beryl-howell-richard-barnett-pelosi/index.html" target="_blank">said</a> last January. Howell added in October: “The rioters attacking the US Capitol on January 6th, as part of a large mob, were not mere trespassers engaging in protected First Amendment protests; they were certainly not <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/13/politics/andrew-clyde-january-6-riot/index.html" target="_blank">tourists</a>. And I say that again and again because there still seems, in some areas, to be a debate about that issue.”</p></blockquote><p></p>