MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The vice chairman of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents is publicly questioning whether enrollment declines at one campus are because it's "too diverse," a question that has drawn criticism and calls for his resignation.
Jason Dolan, a 46-year-old retired Marine, who last year pleaded guilty to taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, testified at the criminal trial of the group's founder, Stewart Rhodes, and four associates, who face charges of seditious conspiracy for their role in the violence.
Prosecutors say the group planned a "quick reaction force" of armed members who waited at a hotel in northern Virginia with a stash of firearms they could ferry across the Potomac River into the capital if called upon.
The case, which was deliberately shrouded in secrecy to protect the British children from being identified, ended on Thursday with a statement which even banned the naming of the UK police force involved in case it led to identification of the victims.
'The convictions are in connection with an incident, which occurred in December, 2018 in which a group of pupils and teachers from a UK school travelled to Ghana. The school or area where they were from cannot be named for legal reasons.
According to KSTP-TV, which first reported the exchange, Schrunk Ericksen responded "on behalf of minority students," saying, "I think that they would be shocked that anyone would think our campus was too diverse. They certainly feel, at times, isolated where they are located. So, the answer is from that perspective, no."
The case, which was deliberately shrouded in secrecy to protect the British children from being identified, ended on Thursday with a statement which even banned the naming of the UK police force involved in case it led to identification of the victims.
23 years for firearms offences, 25 years for robbery offences and 23 years for rape. This means that the men will serve the highest of the three punishments, which is 25 years. All of the men will serve their sentences concurrently,' the statement said.
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But there may be a darker reason for the growing interest: a harrowing documentary recently laid bare the damaging health consequences of incestuous families through the eyes of the deformed, inbred Whittaker family in West Virginia.
Dolan told the jury he joined the Oath Keepers out of frustration over Trump's 2020 loss and that he grew willing to "fight" against what he saw was an "illegitimate" government as he drank alcohol and texted with group members for hours each night inside his Wellington, Florida garage.
"A lot of us were prepared, I was prepared to stop the certification process one way or the other," said Dolan, who stormed the Capitol with several other Oath Keepers and loudly chanted "treason" in the hopes that Congress would "be afraid of me" and not certify Democratic President Joe Biden's election.
In the statement following the sentencing in Ghana, police said: 'Three men have been convicted and sentenced following an investigation by police in Ghana, which has been supported by a UK police force.