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Joy Reid: It is stunning to me, Glenn, in a country where Hervis Rogers, a 60 something-year-old man, is facing decades behind…

On the recordJuly 18, 2021
It is stunning to me, Glenn, in a country where Hervis Rogers, a 60 something-year-old man, is facing decades behind bars for voting a couple of months before his parole ran out, decades, like 20-something years in prison, while this person, who participated in attacking our Capitol, in which the lynch mob shouted -- chanted 'Hang Mike Pence' and brought a noose to do it with, somebody who participated in attacking our government gets eight months in prison?
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Joy Reid
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Reid highlights the disparity in sentencing between a voter and a Capitol insurrectionist.

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