Colorado great-grandmother Rebecca Lavernz's trial is set to begin next week for charges related to her participation in the Capitol Riot, and she's none too happy about it. Yesterday she was back in DC for the first time since she was committing her crimes and she got a bit emotional about it all. Nevermind that the charges brought against her in December 2022 in the criminal complaint are misdemeanours, and that because the laws are woefully inadequate she was likely looking at probation at worst if she had taken a plea agreement that her lawyer recommended like a normal person. Since she's not in her right mind though as another MAGA January 6 insurrectionist she now risks going to prison for her actions.

Here's a bit of background on this pathetic excuse for a human being.

Source: Colorado Times Recorder (Dec 20, 2022)

Rebecca Lavrenz of Colorado Springs was arrested yesterday in connection with her participation at the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. Lavrenz is facing four charges, according to a September arrest warrant: 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.

“On April 26, 2021, FBI agents conducted a consensual interview with Lavrenz at her home,” reads the criminal complaint. “She admitted traveling to Washington, D.C. to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally on the mall and, on January 6, 2021, following the crowd to the U.S. Capitol building. As she approached the U.S. Capitol from the east, Lavrenz observed physical barriers indicating that the U.S. Capitol building grounds were a restricted area. As the crowd grew, Lavrenz observed people getting into physical confrontations with police, pushing on the barriers as the police pushed back. She saw a woman get injured in the exchange. When a man finally succeeded in pushing past a barrier and entering the U.S. Capitol, Lavrenz observed that none of the police officers chased him. When the crowd eventually pushed aside the barriers, allowing people to stream through the main door of the U.S. Capitol on the East side, Lavrenz followed and entered as well.

They did a bit of digging on her, the rightwing groups and politicians she supported in Colorado and a bit on her fringe, or not fringe anymore, beliefs. It's dreary reading.

As with a lot of these hapless victims of the US Justice Department, she set up a legal defense fund on the wingnut's favorite, GiveSendgo, earning nearly $35,000 of her $100,000 goal.

h/t Teddy Wilson of Radical Reports who keeps tabs on these traitors. Lavrenz's own Twitter account is @j6prayingrandma.