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Stop Using Autism as an Excuse for White Supremacy and Violence
Among the people who were arrested for the riots on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a man named Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman.” The defense his lawyer Albert Watkins has come up with? Autism. Watkins claims that because his client has Asperger’s syndrome, he shouldn’t be found guilty of committing a crime.