US seeks 4 years in jail for Capitol rioter ‘QAnon Shaman’

Prosecutors have requested US District Judge Royce Lamberth to impose a 51-month sentence on Jacob Chansley, who pleaded responsible in September to obstructing an official continuing when he and 1000’s of others stormed the constructing in an try to cease Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election.
“Defendant Chansley’s now-famous criminal acts have made him the public face of the Capitol riot,” prosecutors mentioned in asking for the 51-month sentence. That can be the stiffest imposed on any Capitol rioter, after a former blended martial artist filmed punching a police officer throughout violence was sentenced final week to 41 months in jail.
Chansley’s attorneys have requested the choose for a sentence of time served for his or her shopper, who has been detained since his January arrest.
While in detention, Chansley was identified by jail officers with transient schizophrenia, bipolar dysfunction, melancholy and anxiousness. When he entered his responsible plea, Chansley mentioned he was disillusioned Trump had not pardoned him.
Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives and acquitted by the Senate on a cost of inciting the Jan. 6 riot for a fiery speech that preceded it wherein he informed his followers to “fight like hell.”

Four individuals died within the violence. A Capitol Police officer who had been attacked by protesters died the day after the riot and 4 law enforcement officials who took half within the protection of the Capitol later took their very own lives. About 140 law enforcement officials had been injured.
Defense lawyer Albert Watkins mentioned the US Navy in 2006 had discovered Chansley suffered from character dysfunction however nonetheless declared him “fit for duty.”