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The Internet is on fire after a 71-year-old grandmother has been convicted for what critics call her very small part in the January 6 events at the U.S. Capitol Building.
Rebecca Lavrenz was caught on video walking around inside the Capitol, speaking to a police officer, and then leaving the premises, but on Thursday, she was convicted on four criminal counts. While inside, she said some prayers, and that’s what has a lot of people upside at Biden’s Justice Department for going after her.
The grandmother, whose sentencing is set for August 12, could face a year in prison and $200,000 in fines, The Epoch Times reported.
The Department of Justice said that she volunteered photos of herself at the Capitol to investigators and that she “admitted traveling to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, to attend the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally on the mall and ‘following the crowd to the U.S. Capitol building.’”
The Department of Justice said that she acknowledged seeing barriers to the building “indicating the U.S. Capitol building grounds were a restricted area” and that she “observed people getting into physical confrontations with police” and she also “saw a woman get injured in the exchange.”
Video footage showed that she was only in the building for 10 minutes, the Department of Justice admitted.
“She was found guilty of four federal misdemeanor charges of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building,” the report said.
Before her trial started, she shared a video of herself online entering the Capitol for the first time since January 6, 2021.
“My own country is treating me like a criminal just because I believe that my—they stole my rightful president, and just standing up for my country makes me a criminal,” the grandmother said.
“It’s not right. It feels so weird to be here,” she said.
On Friday, former President Donald Trump called her a “patriot” and shared a link for people to donate to her legal defense.
“Rebecca Lavrez, also known as the “J6 Praying Grandma,” has been unfairly targeted by Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, and now faces up to 1 YEAR in prison for peacefully walking around the Capitol, and praying for our Failing Nation on January 6th! Rebecca is a 72-year-old Grandmother and Small Business Owner from Colorado, and now she is one of Joe Biden’s J6 HOSTAGES!!! Crooked Joe Biden spends more time prosecuting Patriots like Rebecca, AND ME, than Violent Criminals, Thugs, Murderers, and ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS who are destroying our Country. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST. MAGA2024!” he said.
The grandmother has been active on X, formerly Twitter, and has shared videos of herself at various locations.
In one she shared during her trial she stood in front of the National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
“I’m in Plymouth, Massachusetts, standing right beside this national monument to our forefathers, those pilgrims that came over to this land over 400 years ago to make a covenant with God that this land would be for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith,” the grandmother said.
“Three years ago I drove 25 hours because I believed in this covenant, and now I am on trial to defend that covenant,” she said.
She spoke to The Gazette after her conviction.
“I was surprised,” she said after the verdict. “I believe God wanted it to turn out this way so my voice could be amplified. We have to wake up our country.”
“The whole reason I went to the Capitol was to pray,” the grandmother said.
“I didn’t get into this for myself, I was there to stand up for my country. God led me to go there and into the building to stand up for my First Amendment rights to petition the government for a redress of grievances,” she said.
