Politics

It's glossed over in the article, but she's already been released.

I don't know if it's part of trying to build a narrative or if they're trying to whitewash her name, but Pam Hemphill (great last name) wasn't just some old lady who got caught up in the moment. In fact, January 6th wasn't even her first time storming a capitol; she was part of the mob that shattered the glass door at the Boise capitol a few months before J6.

This exposé lays a lot more bare about her time as "the unofficial videographer of the far-right in Idaho," her harassment and scapegoating of BLM, and her early adoption of and ardent support for People’s Right Network. Of course, that's the antigovernment militia founded by wanted, but not pursued, fugitive Ammon Bundy.

If the name "Bundy" sounds familiar to you and you're not thinking about serial killers or sitcom characters, you're probably recalling the ridiculous 2014 standoff between the Bundy family with their militia and the federal government due to Ammon's brother getting fined for allowing his cows to graze on BLM-managed land.

Pam has known what she was doing for a few decades now, going all the way back to grifting recovering addicts with inflated credentials as a reference, to claiming her mother was an unknown serial killer of 30-40 immigrant infants which she claims were left to ferment in a wine vat. Private investigations have failed to find any truth to these claims.

While Hemphill may actually reject a Trump pardon or might have actually turned over a new leaf, Black Lives Matter leaders insofar regard her claims and behavior as performative and attention-seeking. They might have a point, considering the new mustang Pam bought in 2021 after creating a givesendgo campaign which she claimed was to fund "her lifestyle as a citizen journalist."