Black Man Gets Sentenced To Longest Term In Connection with Jan. 6 Insurrection Claims Discrimination
A Black man got the longest sentencing in connection to the Capitol riots earlier this year. On Oct. 21, Troy Anthony Smocks of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced to 14 months in prison after pleading guilty to one felony count of transmitting threats in interstate commerce, WUSA reported. Smocks got credit for nine months he served while he awaited trial.
Federal prosecutor says the man traveled to the nation’s capital on Jan. 6 and for the next two days, repeatedly posted threats on his Parler account. However, its believe he never entered the Capitol on Jan.6.
In one post the 58-year-old wrote, “Many of us will return on January 19th, 2021, carrying our weapons in support of Our nation’s resolve, to which the world will never forget. We will come in numbers that no standing army or police agency can match.”
In another post, Smocks allegedly encouraged others to “get our personal affairs in order” and to prepare their weapons, also telling them, “Let’s hunt these cowards down like the Traitors that each of them are.”
Prior to being sentenced by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, Smocks — claimed he was being discriminated against because of his race, citing Dawn Bancroft, another suspect who is white.
Bancroft was permitted to plead to a misdemeanor, although he was actually trespassing on government property entering the U.S. Capitol. The 59-year-old white woman recorded herself looking for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi “to shoot her in the friggin’ brain” on the day of the attacks.
CNN reported Bancroft wasn’t charged by federal prosecutors with making the threats “because Bancroft had uttered the comment while she was exiting the Capitol, potentially making it harder to prove that the threat to Pelosi was serious.”
Bancroft’s charges of illegally demonstrating, picketing, or parading inside the Capitol carry a maximum sentence of six months in prison. A third the amount of time Smocks received.
“Your honor, this is racism,” Smocks said, before referencing Martin Luther King Jr., alleging he shares the same “idea of justice” while the late civil rights leader.
However, Chutkan wasn’t moved and slammed Smocks, telling the man, “Coming into this courtroom and trying to make yourself out to be a victim of racism. … I find that offensive.”
She added, “There are people who died for civil rights. For you to hold yourself up somehow as a soldier in that fight is really quite audacious,” before noting that Smocks’ crime history was not that of someone capable of living “a law-abiding life.”
“I listened to every word Mr. Smocks said, and nowhere did I hear a single word of remorse,” Chutkan added. “Not a single word of acknowledgment of the enormity and seriousness of what he did.”
In addition to 14 months in prison, Smocks was handed three years of probation.
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