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Sunday, July 24, 2022

After Judge Warns Him About Jail Time Over Jan. 6, Grandfather Takes Own Life Before Sentencing

On the day of the Capitol incursion, Mark Aungst of South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, strolled through the Capitol building, taking pictures.

Now, a few weeks after pleading guilty to the charges filed against him for his actions that day and being warned of possible jail time by the judge, he is dead by his own hand.

The coroner ruled that the Wednesday death of Aungst, 47, was a suicide, according to PennLive.

Aungst had pleaded guilty on June 27 in federal court to a charge of demonstrating or parading in a restricted building.

His Sept. 27 sentencing could have sent him to prison for six months and fined him up to $5,000 — and the judge had made jail time sound likely when their sentencing was scheduled.

D. C. Judge Reggie B. Walton told Aungst and co-defendant Tammy A. Bronsburg that “they better have good reasons why they should avoid jail for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol,” according to an earlier PennLive report.

Aungst and Bronsburg traveled together to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Neither was accused of any assault on police or property.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst said the two Pennsylvania residents first entered the Capitol through a Senate fire door at about 2:45 p.m. and left about 30 seconds later.

About 20 minutes after that, they re-entered through a different doorway, where they took photos and videos on their cellphones. During that time, they walked through the Capitol, including Senate room 145.

Video and photo evidence was used to document their presence there, including their own comments to others on the bus that brought them to and from the Capitol.

A court document said Bronsburg was pictured in a Capitol hallway with a blue Trump flag across her shoulders while taking a selfie.

Aungst, whose daughter is expecting a baby girl, was pictured on a bus wearing a Trump cap, smiling and giving a thumbs-up gesture.

The plea agreements called for Aungst and Bronsburg to pay $500 each in restitution for damage others did to the Capitol.

Charges of entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly conduct in such a building, and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building that were filed against them were to be dismissed under the terms of the agreement.

“Mark was a gas field well service technician in the area. He was a member of Messiah Lutheran Church,” his obituary read. “A loyal and dedicated man, Mark showed tremendous pride for God and his...

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Veteran Police Chief and His Entire Department Resign After 'Progressively Responsible' Manager Takes Over Small Town

A North Carolina town lost its police department one month after a progressive new town manager took over.

Kenly Police Chief Josh Gibson and four full-time officers resigned on Wednesday, as did two town clerks. The 2,000-person town now has only three part-time officers, according to WRAL-TV.

“In my 21 years at the Kenly Police Department, we have seen ups and downs. But, especially in the last 3 years, we have made substantial progress that we had hoped to continue. However, due to the hostile work environment now present in the Town of Kenly, I do not believe progress is possible,” Gibson wrote in his letter of resignation.

“I have put in my 2 weeks notice along with the whole police dept. … The new manager has created an environment I do not feel we can perform our duties and services to the community,” Gibson said in a Facebook post.

“I do not know what is next for me . I am letting the lord lead the way.. I have loved this community.. it has become family and one of my greatest honors to serve.. God bless you all in Kenly,” he posted.

“It was just a lot of stress on a lot of us,” Gibson said, according to WTVD-TV. “This is heartbreaking. The community has always been so tremendously supportive of us.”

“They’re not just town police,” Kenly resident Nancy Cates said. “They’re our family.”

“It broke my heart,” Cates said. “I called him. … I said I protested him resigning, and the rest of them too, because they’re all great people. He does a lot for this community.”

Gibson said he would consider returning if town manager Justine Jones is booted.

Jones said she was “not at liberty to talk because of a personnel matter,” according to WRAL.

Jones began work in Kenly in June. The town claimed she was hired after a “nationwide search” and that she had “worked in progressively responsible positions” in several states, the New York Post reported.

Jones has spent 16 years working for local governments in Minnesota, Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

After being fired by Richland County, South Carolina, in 2015, she sued the county for racial discrimination.

At the time, she alleged “hostile” treatment from county leaders after reporting bad behavior. She also claimed she was...

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Yet Biden’s phony narrative about America’s law enforcement officers resulted in widespread depolicing and a flight from the profession. New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Kansas City, Seattle, Portland, San Diego, and Dallas, among many other cities, are seeing record or near record levels of officer resignations, leaving police departments struggling to respond to 911 calls, much less prevent crime before it happens.

So now Biden is calling for the hiring of 100,000 additional police officers as part of his Safer America Plan. Good luck with that. As recently as May 2022, Biden released an executive order alleging that the police disproportionately kill “Black and Brown people” and that there is “systemic racism in our criminal justice system.” The May 2022 order called for “ending discriminatory pretextual stops” — code for ending all remaining proactive stop activity. It called for increased investigations of police departments for civil rights violations.

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