A Florida man who threw a wooden plank at police officers and sprayed a fire extinguisher at them during the Capitol incursion was given the longest sentence yet among those who overran the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Robert Scott Palmer, 54, a Clearwater businessman, pleaded guilty in October to assault charges, the Department of Justice noted in a news release.
Prosecutors wanted U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to sentence Palmer to 63 months in prison. The longest sentences prior to this were for 41 months to “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley and to Scott Fairlamb, according to WUSA-TV.
In an effort to head off the 63-month sentence, Palmer sent Chutkan a handwritten apology blaming former President Donald Trump for his actions.
During the commotion that followed the protests on Jan. 6, Palmer threw a wooden plank at officers. He later sprayed the full contents of a fire extinguisher at officers, according to the DOJ news release.
He was allegedly going after a group of police with a pole when police responded with a rubber bullet that hit Palmer in the stomach.
He was distraught during the hearing. His lawyer said he is regretful.
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@ GG,
Who do the police work for?
Just because the Police work for us, it doesn’t mean you get to treat them poorly. If you believe in Law and Order then if you assault a Police Officer while rioting then you should go to jail. J6 was not a Peaceful Demonstration, but the real question is who instigated the riot and why did Pelosi refuse the National Guard Troops that were offered to the Congress! The is also the question of why the people arrested for J6 are being treated as Political Prisoners.
They ARE political prisoners…Have you not been paying attention. The politburo is not to be challenged…how dare they??? If however you were BLM/BurnLootMurder = Red Guards or antifa = Brown Shirts amnesty would have been your lot…
Since he assaulted Police Officers, I’m OK with this sentence.
Read that the Atheist Communist Liberal Underminers of the Republic are getting involved.
You know it’s bad when even Long March to burn it all down comrades posing as civil/human rights advocates get involved.
Huge belly laughs when the Jo Jo Brandon regime lectures other countries about human rights and they are told to go jump in a lake with a J6 political prisoners in the imperial gulag swamp rebuke.