Capitol Rioter Freed To Vacation In Mexico While Awaiting Trial

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February 7, 2021, 9:28 am

A white woman facing charges for her part in the Capitol riots is getting special treatment after a federal judge okayed her request to go on a trip to Mexico while awaiting trial — and people are big mad about it.

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Jenny Cudd had already paid for a “work-related bonding retreat for employees and their spouses” to Riviera Maya, Mexico, according to her lawyer, and didn’t want to miss out.

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Cudd was among many people who not only stormed the Capitol on January 6, but actually uploaded proof of her own crimes to social media, claiming that she was “proud of her actions” as she livestreamed to Facebook from inside the building.

“I’ve told everybody this: I would do it again in a heartbeat because I did not break any laws,” she later told a local TV station, although the latter part of her statement is inaccurate.

Cudd is now facing multiple charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding, which is a felony. But because she has no prior criminal history and the court doesn’t believe she is a flight risk, she’s been allowed to await trial at home, and will now be able to go on her vacation as well.

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To many, Cudd’s treatment exemplifies how differently white criminals are often treated by the United States justice system compared to BIPOC who have been accused of crimes.

As a public defender, I represented a 16yo for whom I had to beg a judge for release (with escorts, in handcuffs) to go to his dad’s funeral.

Meanwhile, someone accused of participating in the insurrection may get to go on a bonding retreat in Mexico.

Two. Systems. Of. Justice. https://t.co/rJYTurZD4S

— Eliza Orlins (@elizaorlins) February 1, 2021

Definition of white privilege: Despite saying she was proud of her actions & ‘would do it again in a heartbeat’, a judge allows Capitol terrorist Jenny Cudd to vacation in Mexico because she ‘doesn’t present a danger to others’.
Capitol police & their families might disagree.

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) February 7, 2021

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U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden wrote that the defendant, Jenny Cudd, is white.

— Simon’s Anne (@ammiano) February 6, 2021

No, it’s working nearly exactly by their design.

— maggie (@OfficialMaggieL) February 5, 2021

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A number of rioters facing charges in conjunction with the attack on the Capitol have been allowed to return home to await their trials — a privilege that isn’t afforded to everyone. It’s unclear why, exactly, judges believe that people who allegedly attempted to overthrow the government pose no threat to others and should be granted such clemency.

Even Larry Rendell Brock Jr, identified via photos in which he was hauling zip ties across the Senate floor as part of what prosecutors are calling a plot to “take hostages,” was released to home confinement by a judge due to his past military service.

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And all of this is happening alongside of reports that Kyle Rittenhouse — the white teen who shot and killed two people during Black Lives Matter protests over the summer but was released on bail— disappeared from the address on file with the court and is allegedly refusing to provide his new address.

It’s difficult to feel surprised when people act as though the rules don’t apply to them when our own justice system makes it clear that, in fact, they do not.

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*First Published: February 7, 2021, 9:28 am