Five months for stealing a flag? There's another part of the constitution which says the punishment must fit the crime. We don't care about this part though, do we?

Edit: since I'm "posting too fast"

>has some value.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=black+lives+matter+flag

It's a $20 flag, and we paid for his rent and meals for five months over it. He could have simply been court ordered to replace their flag, but instead we spent a mountain of tax money feeding and housing him. He won. And the 1A lost at the same time.

"Theft in the second degree. — Any person convicted of theft in the second degree shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or imprisoned for not more than 180 days, or both, if the property obtained or used has some value." https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/22-32...

Stealing and destroying it, yes. The destroying is an important part. But, for the record, lots of people have done much longer sentences for stealing less.

> "Five months for stealing a flag?"

Serial offender who was convicted of theft in 2004, at the age of 20; convicted again of felony theft in 2012, at the age of 28 (for which he was sentenced to 30 months in prison); and convicted against in 2022, at the age of 40, for his violent role in attacking the US Capitol (for which he was sentenced to 22 years, and pardoned).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Tarrio

It was pretty shameful how Democrats tried to ruin these people’s lives.