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  • Remember The US Capitol Rioter With The Horns? Here’s His Sentence

    18 Nov 2021 by Jasmine Stone in America, Crime, Lifestyle, Politics
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    Jacob Chansley loves a good dress-up party.

    He’s clearly less keen on facing up to the repercussions of his actions.

    Chansley is perhaps best known as the QAnon shaman and was catapulted to worldwide fame after he wore a horned helmet and a fur pelt during the storming of the Capitol on January 6 of this year.

    Footage showed him having a great time on the Senate floor. Less than a month later, he was prepared to turn on Donald Trump to save his own bacon.

    He had previously been a regular attendee at Trump’s rallies, often spoke out in support of the 45th president, and according to his lawyer was “horrendously smitten”.

    Yesterday, 34-year-old Chansley was sentenced to 41 months in prison, reports The New York Times.

    In September, he pleaded guilty to a single felony count of obstructing an official proceeding before Congress:

    Mr. Chansley’s sentence, handed down by Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Federal District Court in Washington, brought an end not only to one of the most widely publicized Capitol cases, but also to one of the strangest…

    In February, [his laywer Albert] Watkins persuaded a federal judge to order the jail in Virginia where Mr. Chansley has been detained for most of his case to serve a strict diet of organic meals.

    Image: News9

    The next month, Mr. Chansley gave a widely watched interview to “60 Minutes,” saying that his actions on Jan. 6 were not an assault on the nation, but rather a way to “bring God back into the Senate.”

    After failing to get a pardon from Trump during his last days in office, Chansley offered to testify against Trump during his second impeachment hearing.

    In a case as strikingly odd as this, Wednesday’s sentencing hearing was suitably strange:

    When Mr. Chansley addressed the court, he quoted Jesus, Gandhi and Justice Clarence Thomas. He went on to discuss his tattoos, his late grandfather’s role in his life and the prison movie “The Shawshank Redemption.”

    He also apologized for his role in attacking the Capitol, saying that in the days since, he has often looked into the mirror and told himself, “You really messed up, royally.”

    I wonder if he still sees himself wearing his horns and fur pelt when he looks in the mirror.

    Theoretically, he could have seen a maximum of 20 years behind bars, but prosecutors had been pushing for a 51-month sentence.

    Do the crime with cameras rolling and footage being beamed around the world and do the time.

    [source:nytimes]

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