Torture, ridicule and psychological warfare were perpetrated within many re-education detention prisons. Alleged crimes of trespassing and low-level allegations led to heinous living conditions within maximum security prisons.
"I'm not going to sit here and say that there were all the brightest people that showed up on Jan. 6, there were some flat-out morons that showed up there," Mock once told NBC News. "But there was some really intelligent, engaged people and I've had deep conversations with some extremely intelligent individuals who looked at that day — Election Day — and thought, 'Something isn't right here.'"
For his participation in the January 6 protest at the Capitol Brian Mock spent nearly a year in pretrial detention. Ten of the 14 Minnesota defendants were charged with felonies, but Mock was the only Minnesota defendant jailed prior to his trial. The judge who presided over Mock’s bench trial convicted him on all 11 counts.
Mock received the longest prison term of anyone from the state: 33 months.
Mock began serving his time in the Sandstone federal prison in April of 2024. But U.S. District Judge James Boasberg recalculated Mock’s sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last summer that one of those 11 counts — obstructing an official proceeding — did not apply to Jan. 6 defendants.
Boasberg re-sentenced Mock to time served, and he left prison about three weeks before getting his pardon from President Donald Trump.
Watch the full interview with Brian Mock through this link to Catching Fire News.
"I'm not going to sit here and say that there were all the brightest people that showed up on Jan. 6, there were some flat-out morons that showed up there," Mock once told NBC News. "But there was some really intelligent, engaged people and I've had deep conversations with some extremely intelligent individuals who looked at that day — Election Day — and thought, 'Something isn't right here.'"
For his participation in the January 6 protest at the Capitol Brian Mock spent nearly a year in pretrial detention. Ten of the 14 Minnesota defendants were charged with felonies, but Mock was the only Minnesota defendant jailed prior to his trial. The judge who presided over Mock’s bench trial convicted him on all 11 counts.
Mock received the longest prison term of anyone from the state: 33 months.
Mock began serving his time in the Sandstone federal prison in April of 2024. But U.S. District Judge James Boasberg recalculated Mock’s sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last summer that one of those 11 counts — obstructing an official proceeding — did not apply to Jan. 6 defendants.
Boasberg re-sentenced Mock to time served, and he left prison about three weeks before getting his pardon from President Donald Trump.
Watch the full interview with Brian Mock through this link to Catching Fire News.
