Capitol Stormer Who Said Jan. 6 Was the ‘Best Day Ever’ Writes Movie and Book Reviews of ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Just Mercy’ in Bid to Get Probation, Community Service – By Matt Naham (Law and Crime) / June 15 2021
Anna Morgan Lloyd, a 49-year-old grandmother from Indiana who admittedly stepped foot inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, is asking a federal judge to sentence her on Friday to probation and community service as punishment for “Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building.” In an apparent effort to make her case, Lloyd watched “Schindler’s List,” and read “Just Mercy” and “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” as her attorney put it, to “educate herself about ‘government policy’ toward Native Americans, African Americans and European Jews.” Lloyd, who is pleading guilty to a misdemeanor offense, even wrote some book and movie reviews that were filed on the court docket Tuesday in an attempt to explain what she has learned since Jan. 6.
“I have had many political and ethical discussions with Anna Lloyd. I tendered a booklist to her. She has read ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,’ ‘Just Mercy,’ and ‘Schindler’s List’ to educate herself about ‘government policy’ toward Native Americans, African Americans and European Jews. We have discussed the books and also about the responsibility of an individual when confronting ‘wrong,’” defense attorney H. Heather Shaner explained. “She has viewed ‘Burning Tulsa’ on the History Channel, as well as the films ‘Just Mercy’ and ‘Mudbound.’ She watched part of the series on the U.S. Constitution, produced by the James Madison Montpelier Foundation. She did this to educate herself and to learn the American history she was not taught in school. She has worked hard to come to terms with what she believed before January 6th, 2021 and what she has learned since then.”
“She is a fine woman, who respects the rights of others and apologizes to the Court and our country for entering the Capitol—albeit through an open door,” Shaner continued. “She is terrified and awed by the power of the Court. She makes no excuses for having entered the U.S. Capitol and in retrospect would never ever have come to Washington in January, 2021. She begs the Court not to incarcerate her.”
