Judge slams US Capitol rioter's request to take Jamaican vacation
(CNN)A federal judge colorfully rejected a US Capitol riot defendant's request for a 10-day getaway in Jamaica on Thursday, the one-year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol.
Anthony Williams -- who has pleaded not guilty to charges related to the January 6 riot -- had asked to travel to meet his girlfriend's family.
According to Williams' request, "(h)e would stay in a home owned by his girlfriend's father, and intends to spend time working with a local non-profit, St. Anthony's Kitchen, in Negril, Jamaica."
But, as Chief Judge Beryl Howell put it, Williams wanted "to leave the Michigan winter to spend ten days in the warmer climes of Jamaica."
"Although such a meeting may be an important step in defendant's personal relationship," Howell wrote in her denial Thursday, "(the) defendant surrendered his entitlement to unfettered international travel when, also 'more than a year' ago, on December 30, 2020, he allegedly announced his intent to 'Storm the Swamp'...and one week later, on January 6, 2021, followed through by joining a mob at the Capitol that, in his words, 'took [that] f***ing building.'"
Howell also noted that Williams allegedly said the day was "the proudest day of (his) life."
"This Court will not commemorate the one-year anniversary of this attack on the Capitol by granting defendant's request for non-essential foreign travel when he is awaiting judgment for his actions on that day," Howell concluded.
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http://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/politics/capitol-rioter-jamaican-vacation-denied/index.html
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