Racial Torment, Severe Beatings Of “Insurrection” Prisoners At D.C. Jail – Report

O-Biden’s America

For those who remain unconvinced that militarized Washington D.C. is now the equivalent of the capital of a despotic third-world hellhole, this story may bring you around.

A horrifying report by Politico provides graphic details on how Trump supporters who were swept up in the so-called “insurrection” are being held in a D.C. jail until their show trial commences and that the white political prisoners are regularly subjected to savage abuse by the mostly black prison guards.

One detainee was beaten so severely by guards that he was rendered “blind in one eye, has a skull fracture and detached retina.” Others have been terrorized, racially berated, and are in constant fear for their lives while they remain trapped in an indefinite state of legal limbo while the Biden Justice Department constructs a case against them.

The prisoners are also being subjected to 23 hours of isolation a day, a severe psychological torment that is reminiscent of the punishments inflicted in a Soviet gulag.

According to Politico, “Capitol riot defendant alleges beating by jail guards”:

Tensions are running high between guards and inmates at a D.C. jail housing many of the defendants in Jan. 6 cases, with at least one of those prisoners alleging that he was brutally beaten by correctional officers.

For weeks, Capitol riot defendants being held in Washington have complained that they are locked in their cells with virtually no human contact for 23 hours a day. But a startling, graphic account offered publicly in court on Tuesday by one such inmate, Ronald Sandlin, went further: alleging that guards have subjected those charged in the Jan. 6 events to violence, threats and verbal harassment.

“Myself and others involved in the Jan. 6 incident are scared for their lives, not from each other but from correctional officers,” Sandlin said during a bail hearing conducted by video before U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich. “I don’t understand how this is remotely acceptable,” he added, saying he was being subjected to “mental torture.”

In an unusual direct plea to the judge, Sandlin said another Capitol riot defendant, Ryan Samsel, “was severely beaten by correctional officers, [is now] blind in one eye, has a skull fracture and detached retina.”

One high-profile prisoner, the man who was pictured sitting with his feet on Nancy Pelosi’s desk has been subjected to racist harassment:

Sandlin said guards tackled “to the ground” one high-profile prisoner, Richard Barnett, 60, who was photographed with his boot up on a desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. Sandlin said one of the guards declared, “I hate all white people and your honky religion.”

Defense attorneys for Samsel and Barnett confirmed the episodes described in court by Sandlin, which they said they learned about from their clients, clients’ family members and other attorneys.

“There is a pattern of abuse and of targeting of the defendants who are being held pursuant to what happened on Jan. 6,” said Joseph McBride of New York, a defense lawyer for Barnett. “It is targeted. It is ruthless. It is nonstop.”

Steven Metcalf, a lawyer for Samsel, said that after his client complained last month about slow delivery of toilet paper, he was zip-tied, moved to a cell outside the view of surveillance cameras and brutally beaten by guards.

“I have seen Ryan. He has two black eyes to this day, two weeks later. All the skin is ripped off both wrists, which shows the zip ties and how tight they were,” said Metcalf, also from New York. “Other inmates said his face looked like a tomato that was stomped on.”

The story is a peek behind the curtains of what “justice” has come to mean under the Biden junta where non-violent protesters who were baited into a trap being swept up by federal agents and then locked away behind bars in a facility staffed with racist black guards who have a serious ax to grind with whitey.

Meanwhile, the media treats non-stories like Biden’s dog shitting on the carpet as earth-shaking events despite their constant advocacy for prison reform.

Welcome to Obamastan.