Reversal of FATE: Steve Baker’s update on January 6 prisoners is ‘a good sign’



January 6 started as a chance for Trump supporters to innocently protest and quickly turned into a day that would change their lives forever.

Now, however, things might be taking a turn for the better.

“One J-sixer is seeing a reversal of fate,” Jill Savage of “Blaze New Tonight” explains.

“John Strand is actually one of the more, let’s call it, infamous stories, certainly one of the more high-profile cases of all the January 6 defendants,” Steve Baker tells Savage.

Strand was friend and bodyguard of Simone Gold — a doctor and attorney who was the deplatformed founder of the Frontline American Doctors. Gold had been accused of “disinformation” for recommending alternative therapies that were not part of what Baker calls the “approved narrative” regarding COVID-19.

Gold was scheduled to speak on January 6 at one of the six legally permitted events scheduled on the Capitol property that day.

“By the time they got to the Capitol, everything had gone to hell in a handbasket, and so there was nothing but chaos by the time they arrived. The breaches had already taken place. John Strand and Simone Gold did not participate in violence, they did not participate in breaching the Capitol building whatsoever,” Baker explains.

However, their fatal flaw was going inside the Capitol peacefully.

“She actually decided to deliver her prepared remarks there in the Rotunda. She climbed up on the Eisenhower statue, with John standing guard beside her, she delivered her remarks there in the great Rotunda of the Capitol, and then they peacefully left, just as so many other hundreds and thousands of people did,” Baker says.

Both Strand and Gold were “handed that infamous 1512 obstruction of an official proceeding felony.”

The felony carried up to 20 years of imprisonment.

Gold ended up taking a plea deal and pled down to a single misdemeanor. Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced her to 60 days in prison.

“John Strand decided he was not going to take this lying down, that he was going to be a warrior, and he, despite the odds being horribly stacked against him, he was going to go to trial and he did that,” Baker explains.

He was convicted on all counts, and he was sentenced to 32 months in prison.

“Now what’s happening is that because of the Supreme Court’s overturning the 1512 obstruction of an official proceeding charge against 355 defendants, him being one of those,” Baker says, “they’re shortening their sentences or letting them go.”

If they haven’t gone to trial yet, they’re not charging them with it.

“It’s especially a good sign because the Department of Justice has already announced that they want to figure out how to continue with that charge,” Baker explains. “But the point being, is it appears that the judges are pushing back against the DOJ.”

“We’ll take this as a good sign,” he adds.


Chicago cops raid wrong home and handcuff innocent, naked woman. The city tried to keep video from being released.



Newly released body-camera footage shows Chicago Police Department officers raiding the wrong home and handcuffing an innocent woman for 20 minutes while she was nude — before realizing their mistake. The police had the wrong address from an informant.

City officials are under fire for making a last-ditch effort to block a local television station from posting video Tuesday of the incident that occurred nearly two years ago.

What are the details?

Last year, officers broke in the door of longtime social worker Anjanette Young who says she had just arrived home from work on Feb. 21 and had undressed in her room when the police charged inside at 7 p.m. with guns drawn.

Following the incident, Young filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the body-camera footage, but the department denied her requests, according to WMMB-TV.

But Young recently received the video and it was aired Tuesday by WMMB, despite Chicago city attorneys filing an emergency motion in an attempt to block the outlet from doing so.

The video shows officers breaking in the door, and Young pleading to know what is going on as she stands nude with her arms in the air in the living room while the police run through her home. She can be seen sobbing, repeatedly insisting to the room full of male officers that they have "the wrong house."

At one point, she says, "This cannot be right. How is this legal?"

After a few minutes, an officer places a jacket around her shoulders, but the front part of her naked body, of course, remained exposed. Then, an officer wraps one of Young's blankets around her body, but she was unable to keep herself covered because of her hands being cuffed behind her back.

She pleads with the officers while telling them that she lives alone, and that she has lived in her home for four years. She cries, "There is no gun in this place. I'm a social worker, I've been a social worker for 20 years. I follow the law. I don't get in trouble for anything. I don't do illegal stuff. I'm not that person. You've got the wrong person."

Officers eventually apologize, try to repair front door

The body-camera footage also shows that after speaking with Young for several minutes, two officers return to a patrol vehicle where they review documentation regarding the warrant.

One can be heard saying, "It wasn't initially approved or some crap."

He adds, "I mean, they told him it was approved. Then, I guess that person messed up on their end."

The CPD would not comment to WMMB on the officers' exchange. Eventually, the officers tell Young that they believe her, apologize, and attempt to do makeshift repairs to her front door since it was no longer functional after being rammed in.

According to the Chicago Tribune, WMMB "has reportedly extensively on Chicago police officers raiding the wrong home," and called Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's (D) attorneys' request to block the station from airing the report as "extraordinary."

Lightfoot distanced herself from the incident when questioned about it during an unrelated news conference, saying that it happened before her taking office. But, the newspaper noted, it was Lightfoot's administration that sought to prevent the video from being shown to the public.

Young is suing the police department over the incident. Her attorney, Keenan Saulter, told WMMB, "If this had been a young woman in Lincoln Park by herself in her home, naked — a young white woman, let's just be frank — if the reaction would have been the same. I don't think it would have been. I think they would have saw that woman, rightfully so, as someone who was vulnerable. Someone who deserved protection. Someone who deserved to have their dignity maintained."

He argued, "They viewed Ms. Young as less than human."