Judge Apologizes, Says Alleged Trump Assassin Treated Worse Than Jan. 6 Defendants
“At a minimum I should be apologizing to him. We are obligated to make sure he’s taken care of. Mr. Allen, I’m sorry that things have not been the way they are supposed to.”
US Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui apologized to Cole Allen, the man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump, over his treatment in jail.
Faruqui even complained that the Capitol Hill rioters received better treatment than Allen.
Okay. First of all, every single person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Yes, even Allen.
Second, this man is accused of trying to assassinate a president, so chill out, judge.
Faruqui had a problem with the fact that Allen was on suicide watch. From Fox News:
Suicide watch protocols mandated that Cole remain on a 24-hour lockdown in a “safe cell” and have no phone access to call or receive visits from anyone other than his legal team, according to the motion. His lawyers also wanted him to be able to obtain a tablet to assist in his legal defense.
He was also allegedly denied a copy of the Bible despite more than one request.
Prosecutor Jocelyn Ballantine argued that Allen needed a suicide watch since “he did not expect to survive the alleged attack.”
According to The New York Post, DC lockup lawyer Tony Towns explained they placed Allen “in the isolated cell because of ‘ongoing’ psych exams and that the decision to keep him there was made by medical staff at the facility.”
That…that actually sounds reasonable to me.
Faruqui said he believes Allen meant “he expected to be shot during the attack” and did not plan to commit suicide.
It does seem like overkill to me to put him in five-points restraints and deny him phone calls, visits, and a Bible.
Again, Allen hasn’t been convicted, and he’s presumed innocent no matter how much evidence is piled up against him.
For some reason, though, Farqui decided to bring up the Capitol Hill rioters:
“To me, it’s extremely disturbing that he was put in five-point restraints, a person with no criminal history,” Faruqui said, later adding that Allen is presumed innocent. “It’s troubling. I never heard of one Jan. 6 defendant who was put in five-point restraints or in a safe cell. If the only way to keep him safe is the most punitive thing, that’s a problem.”
The judge said even Jan. 6 defendants were only house in a Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF), a less restrictive form of prison housing.
“Pardons may erase convictions, but they don’t erase history,” he said. “They were hanging gallows outside.”
“What am I to say to Allen that this is going to be a fair process if we’re putting him in a safe cell when he’s not supposed to be in there?” Faruqui said. “At a minimum I should be apologizing to him. We are obligated to make sure he’s taken care of. Mr. Allen, I’m sorry that things have not been the way they are supposed to.”
Did…did Faraqui opine that the Capitol Hill rioters didn’t receive this kind of treatment? That’s how it sounds to me.
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this judge might be to the left of kentaji and is a one idiot wrecking crew against all things maga:
During his prosecutorial career, according to the Muslim Bar Association of New York,
Judge Faruqui has accused prosecutors of overcharging people ensnared in Trump’s local crime initiative and bowing to pressure to bring criminal cases at the expense of protecting defendants’ legal rights,
https://americankahani.com/lead-stories/the-judge-who-wont-bend-the-knee-pakistani-american-zia-m-faruquis-lonely-stand-against-trumps-justice-department/
Paki, Ugh, My bigotry is showing. Yes judge. It was all fun and games for the Jan 6 protesters who were served Biden’s favorite pudding and ice cream while lounging in the luxurious 1 cell suites provided by the democrats. Why don’t you head on back to your native land where you can scream about Jews and torture infidels to your hearts content.
I read some accounts from the Jan6 people were very neglected and all but Gulag prisoners. Not surprised a Leftist Judge apologized to a President assassin wannabe.
Assumed? While caught with firearms and rushing towards the President?
You can’t hate them enough.
How to destroy respect for and credibility of the judiciary…
“Pardons may erase convictions, but they don’t erase history,” he said. “They were hanging gallows outside.”
Which were about as real and functional as the severed Trump heads featured in several recent demonstrations by your pals.
Who is “they” though? Last I knew, whoever actually had the gallows constructed hasn’t been discerned. Did I miss the announcement?
Capitol police have some good carpenters I hear.
So put him in general population. See if that improves things.
Yeah I agree putting the judge in the general population would improve things,
Magistrate, but sure him too. He definitely needs to see first hand and experience it for himself for say 30 days. That should be enough time for him to decide if remaining out of gen population might be preferable.
The process is the punishment.
He’s a magistrate. Fire him. He is one of the reasons DC had a huge crime problem. These types are insufferable twits.
Allen admitted he expected to die in the attack. In a jail setting, that is a massive “red flag” for a suicide risk. The jail psychiatrist labeled Allen a suicide risk and he was consequently placed on a 24-hour lockdown in “safe cell” restraints. Since the death rate at the D.C. jail is 3.5 times the national average, that was not an unwise thing to do.
Responsible staff at the custody location probably don’t want a Epstein incident. High profile prisoners deserve extra attention (protection) so they can have their due process.
THIS. THIS times 10 Million.
The placement of an accused defendant into a “suicide cell” (your standard 24-hour, camera observed and recorded, single occupancy cell) is minimum good practice for an accused that survived, basically unharmed as near as I can tell, what is obviously intended to be a failed suicide mission.
There’s a LOT of initial activity because of the chaos they have created, and then there’s suddenly for them a whole bunch of silence. Where all that accused has to contemplate is that they failed, and now they are likely to spend the rest of their life, such as it is, in a room this size, with no privileges, few visitors, and nothing to show for it.
I am qualified to opine on this occurrence. I have been in this situation personally. Notice my profile does not say “Attorney” anymore. I spent the better part of 3 months in a suicide cell (Texas, not Federal custody) on a charges that had the potential to have me in a cell for the remainder of my natural life (5 to 99, I was 43 at the time, and the DA’s Office was pissed at me because I kept getting Not Guilty verdicts for my clients and embarrassing their office in open court).
Bluntly, I was quite happy in that cell, because I did not have to worry about my personal safety, as I also had previous clients in that facility, some of which were not happy about their personal outcomes, and others of which were part of larger, powerful organizations that had not yet made a decision about what they wanted to do about me as potentially a loose end. When they did the suicide assessment, I literally said to the nurse “Let me save you time, I am not suicidal, however there are individuals in this facility that do cause me to fear for my personal safety.”
Once I was in the cell, alone because I’m weird like this even though I was not suicidal, I tried a thought experiment of “How is this cell is designed to prevent suicide and self harm, and how good is it in implementation, let’s see how many different ways I can figure out how to break that task and what it would take to make this cell actually suicide proof.” In less than 20 minutes, I had figured out 17 different ways to have killed myself or if not immediate death, the injury sustained by the action would have resulted in certain death in a short period of time that it would have been impossible to stabilize or surgically intervene to repair the damage done. These covered the range from blunt impact, improvised sharp cutting tool, to electrocution. Even though I did not want a way out, I could completely see how someone else looking at what I was, could make such a choice and act accordingly.
That being said, use of restraints on Federal BOP inmates is governed by 28 CFR 552.24. There’s rules, medical reviews, and documentation galore. Putting THIS accused in padded restraints while they fully assessed his psychiatric and psychological condition is only controversial to THIS Magistrate, who was trying to score a cheap political point
This Mag-Judge is a nut to have even the gall to compare the treatment of the Jan 6 accused to the WHCD accused.
Ok…
If the person in question has a name that looks like the town clerk hit the mother with his keyboard…
Zia M. Faruqu
🙄🙄🙄
The days of taking baseball bats to alleged perpetrator is neigh
Thank you…beat me to it, what kind of stupid name is Zia for a male.
Upset with how poor little Allen was being treated, the judge asserted, “Allen is presumed innocent.”
Every single person in that jail awaiting trial is legally “presumed innocent,” but the judge didn’t apologize to the thousands of others who faced those same deplorable conditions before Cole Allen.
Most people in the D.C. jail don’t have lawyers capable of getting a federal judge to hold an emergency hearing on a Sunday. Their “presumed innocence” doesn’t get them out of restraints or solitary confinement because no one is watching out for them, including the judge.
Except the J6 people. They were presumed guilty.
Yes. Especially so by judge Zia.
Presumed innocent.
Why are people WHO ARE CAUGHT IN THE ACT presumed innocent?
It’s perfectly reasonable if someone is arrested after the fact, but the guy they took down in the act isn’t ‘alleged’. That guy did it. We know because he was caught doing it.
And yet we farcify justice by pretending that they may not have.
Because sometimes the act turns out not to have been a crime.
It’s all in a name: Faraqui. Disrobe him.
Nobody wants to see that.
The proper term is defrock.
(See what you started, Milhouse?)
Priests get defrocked, judges get disrobed. And right, no one wants to
literally see that. LOL
The judiciary needs to be put in restraints.
it’s judges like these that redefine the term “hanging judge”.
Don’t you mean “Hanging A judge”
Did he spend over a year in solitary confinement without being charged? No. Not worse than some of the J6 defendants. Oh, and its illegal to keep someone in prison for over a year with no charges, but there were zero consequences for the judge or prosecutor for doing that – nor any compensation for the victim.
Was he held in solitary confinement for months on end just because he spoke to the press? No? Not worse than J6 defendants.
Was he kept in a cold cell with nothing but his underwear? No? Not worse than J6 defendants.
Was he beaten so badly by the guards that he lost an eye? No? Not worse than a J6 defendant.
These “judges” are worse than the criminals. This was a much better country back when tar and feathers were still a thing.
This same magistrate signed arrest warrants for hundreds of J6 protesters, only a tiny percentage of whom actually entered the Capital, and only a handful of whom committed any crime.
It’s strange that he didn’t order the prosecutor’s office to return to Allen the shotgun with which he shot (and hit) the Security Service
Did the Jan 6ers carry a war chest and come in shooting?
The comparison to Jan 6ers is irrational.
2 points:
1) Tin foil is not my usual hat, but I’m wondering why they are so eager to make him into Epstein material.
2) It will take decades of full steam purges to course correct the Judiciary in this country. Stalin is smiling.
Shltskins with Middle Eastern attitudes should not be allowed in this country , much less in positions of any legal authority.
the left wants allen to be a martyr
What in the devil is that IDIOT doing on the bench as a District Moron anyways? He has no business being anywhere near any court, except being examined for competency and commitment to a mental health facility for a long, long time. If I were in the audience, as a physician, I might be tempted to perhaps to order a 72 hour hold on the District Moron for psychiatric evaluation. A judge apologizing to a an accused criminal, and all but saying the victim(s) all but “had it coming”? Que va! Change the venue to North Texas already.
Born in Pakistan.
We can’t have foreign born presidents, for good reason, and we shouldn’t be allowed one on the bench of both the state and federal judiciary. As the loathsome Zia and others have proven.
Some academics claim that Sharia Law does make allowances for honor killings, particularly in Pakistan. So this judge is just endeavoring to shield this would be martyr to affirm his attempt to strike down the Infidel in Chief, along with other sundry Devils!
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