At the Star Tribune, Hunter Woodall reports Minnesota woman pleads guilty to felony count in Jan. 6 case; Victoria White of Rochester faced four charges over her actions during the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
But White also has close connections with self-proclaimed "patriot" far across the lone prairie from Mayo City.
It's been some time since Bluestem's posted about Lyon County's contribution to the January 6 Insurrection. As we noted in the February 2021 post, Larvita McFarquhar: freedom fighter or attention addict?:
According to Unicorn Riot's Niko Georgiades in D.C. Riots: A Look at the Minnesota Contingent:
Larvita McFarquhar, owner of Haven’s Garden restaurant in Lynd, Minnesota, who’s faced fines for keeping her restaurant open, took the trip to D.C. with a crew of her friends—Janice Evans (Victoria White), Molly Wentzel, and Steve Lahr. On their trip, they stopped in Gettysburg to live-stream about how they weren’t allowed into five different bathrooms for refusing to wear masks. . . .
The four talked about their experiences in D.C. during two live-streams posted on Molly Wentzel’s Facebook on January 8. They all repeated the debunked theory that the violence that happened at the Capitol was orchestrated by “antifa and BLM.” White and Wentzel said they went into the Capitol building while Lahr and McFarquhar didn’t enter the building.
Bring Me The News' Adam Uren reported in April's Charges reveal more details of MN woman's involvement in Jan. 6 Capitol riot:
White described her experience at Minnesota bar
. . . Among the evidence cited in the federal complaint is video and radio appearances by White in the days after the Capitol riot, in which White admitted being inside the building.
White's Facebook page lists her as being an "assistant to Larvita McFarquar [sic] of Havens Garden." McFarquhar and her Havens Gardens pub in Lynd, southwest Minnesota, hit the headlines in November when it was one of those that refused to close during Gov. Tim Walz's bar and restaurant shutdown at the peak of the COVID-19 virus.
On Jan. 8, Havens Garden posted that Victoria White and two others would be at the bar that evening to "tell their stories of what happened at the National Capital [sic]." . . .
It appears as if White's legal defense has worked out as well as McFarquhar's primary challenge of sitting Republican state senator Gary Dahms (Larvita received 7.8 percent of the vote).
Woodall reported Thursday in the Star Tribune's Minnesota woman pleads guilty to felony count in Jan. 6 case:
Minnesota woman pled guilty to one felony charge Thursday over her part in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Victoria Charity White, 41, from Rochester was part of the mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol grounds and stopped lawmakers for hours from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election Trump lost.
White pleaded guilty to "civil disorder and aiding and abetting." Her federal public defender said White didn't have any comment when asked by the Star Tribune moments after leaving federal court in Washington D.C. on Thursday afternoon. She is set to be sentenced in November.
Several different attorneys have represented White since her case began in 2021, with court filings showing that White terminated some of them through text message and that she rejected a plea offer in February. Ahead of the latest hearing, White posted on social media last week: "I took the plea NO going back this time. If you only knew what these 2yrs have been like." . . .
A September trial date had been scheduled for White's case before Thursday's plea news. A year ago, White responded to someone on Twitter and said, "I thought in America it's innocent until PROVEN guilty? I committed NO crime on January 6th."
White filed a civil lawsuit against the District of Columbia and local law enforcement in 2022, with her then-attorneys claiming in a filing that on Jan. 6 "she was severely beaten with a metal baton approximately 35 times and punched in face five times," by a police officer during the events of that day.
White later successfully asked the court to dismiss her civil case last year. An attorney for her wrote in a filing that White "does not have the time or resources to spend on her civil case until her criminal trial is resolved," but left open the option of re-filing later.
White has been outspoken on social media and has talked about Jan. 6 in interviews with conservative outlets. A previous defense attorney wrote in a February court filing that "White does not agree that J6 was an "act of domestic terror," "a white supremacist attack," or an "insurrection" on her part." The attorney also claimed in the filing that White "was non-violent at the Capitol."
I'll be a blue-nosed gopher.
Photo: Molly Wentzel, Steve Lahr, Larvita McFurquhar, Janice Evans (Victoria White) in D.C. on January 6, 2021. Source: Unicorn Riot.
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