Originally published August 17, 2023 6:00 pm PDT
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QUICK FACTS:
- Media outlet The Gateway Pundit spoke with January 6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel, who was transported to 17 different facilities and held in an isolated cell for 5 months.
- Samsel claims to have been beaten, abused, and neglected while being held in prison.
- Images show Samsel’s closet-sized cell had a thin blue mattress and a yellow bucket to hold fecal matter.
- Samsel believes the abuse he endured in prison was to coerce him into giving information about the Proud Boys, a right-wing political group.
- On January 6, 2021, Samsel was part of a group that took down barriers and attempted to take shields from Capitol Police.
SAMSEL’S STORY:
- “I was kept in … a hard cell. And in that particular cell about five, six months,” Samsel told The Gateway Pundit, referring to a prison cell at the FDC in Philadelphia. “I even told you what was happening is the judge was actually calling, trying to get in contact with me because I wasn’t in a named cell. They were missing me and they were saying I wasn’t showing up to court.”
- “They were saying I wasn’t showing up to medical. But they were pretty much keeping me in there… Like I said, it was cold, the light was on, there’s zero window. And that followed me from Virginia. When I was in Virginia, it was the same exact conditions.”
- He described another incident while at the Central Regional Virginia Jail (CVRJ): “I was kept in and they called it booking hard cell, which is you get zero phone, zero commissary, zero clothing because they think that you’re going to hang yourself and you’re on constant surveillance. You’re under surveillance constantly.”
- “The light has to be on 24/7. You’re locked in a cell. There is no getting out. The windows in Virginia were covered by a black mat, so you weren’t able to see. And it’s constant nothing. It’s deprivation of everything,” Samsel described.
BACKGROUND:
- American Faith reported that ex-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said the events of January 6 were a “cover-up.”
- “If I was allowed to do my job as the chief, we wouldn’t be here, this didn’t have to happen,” Sund told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
- “Like I said, I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but when you look at the information and intelligence they had, the military had, it’s all watered down. I’m not getting intelligence, I’m denied any support from National Guard in advance. I’m denied National Guard while we’re under attack, for 71 minutes.”
- Sund suggested that officials may have “wanted something to happen,” noting it is “not a far stretch to begin to think that. It’s sad when you start putting everything together and thinking about the way this played out … What was their end goal?”
