Sarah McAbee’s husband, a former sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee, was incarcerated for 26 months before he was given a trial for his role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
“And clearly it wasn’t a jury of his peers,” McAbee said on the “Vicki McKenna Show,” a radio program in Madison, Wisconsin.
Ronald McAbee now awaits sentencing after being convicted of five felonies in a D.C. district court. Mr. McAbee had already pled guilty to another felony and a misdemeanor related to the riot, and prosecutors are now asking the judge to give him 14 to 17 years behind bars.
Sarah McAbee, however, says her family has become victims of politically weaponized prosecutions of those involved in the Jan. 6 demonstrations. When asked by the radio show’s guest host, Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle, why her husband remains behind bars 29 months later, Sarah blamed the lengthy incarceration on what her husband saw at the riot.
“I truly believe it is because he was a law enforcement officer, and he witnessed a murder happen right in front of his eyes,” Sarah said. “I believe that’s why he was held without bond. He was held 26 months before he even stepped foot in a trial.”
Sarah said her husband was at the scene where Rosanne Boyland died. Ronald apparently deployed his skills as an emergency responder to assist both a fallen officer struggling in the crowd and Boyland, to whom he gave chest compressions. Sarah
