A judge handing down a sentence to a Chicago cop and his sister after a jury convicted them of four misdemeanors for entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot "uncorked an unbridled denunciation" of the events of that deadly day, detailed CBS News correspondent Seth MacFarlane.
Karol Chwiesiuk, 32, who has been on unpaid leave with the Chicago Police Department, and his 30-year-old sister Agnieszka Chwiesiuk, who journeyed with him to D.C. and entered the Capitol, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes to 90 days of home detention and three years of probation.
Karol, who has said that he has found part-time work as a security officer, will be in a quandary with the force since Reyes also imposed restrictions on possessing any firearms.
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MacFarlane claimed Reyes was lenient with the Chwiesiuks, and paraphrased her speech in court. In a post on social media, he said the "judge uncorked a blistering warning" about the risks to democracy.
He said, "Sometimes [she spoke] in an elevated voice warning about the risks of democracy that are ongoing, she told Chwiesiuk 'You're of Polish descent, you know what happened to people of Poland during the time of Hitler and Stalin during World War II. That's what happens when democratic guardrails fail. That's what happens when democracies fail.'"
She also was struck by how they both didn't think they were in the wrong that day.
“I just find it unbelievable that you two didn’t know you shouldn’t be in the Capitol" she told them.
Five people were killed on day that began as a "Stop the Steal" rally to compel Congress to halt the certification of the election and exploded into a widespread melee where five people lost their lives.
MacFarlane said Reyes then "blistered Jan. 6 defendants who draw parallels between to themselves or invoke the words of the Founding Fathers" claiming that they would be "appalled."
She also told the Chwiesiuk siblings that while she couldn't convince them Trump didn't win the election, the evidence has proven that there was "no widespread fraud and 60-plus courts across the country have ruled that."
When Karol walked out of the courtroom MacFarlane said he posed a question to him.
"I asked if he still supports Donald Trump, and he said 'Yeah. In a big way.'"
