Capitol rioter who stole Nancy Pelosi’s lectern on Jan. 6 gets prison time

Adam Johnson was sentenced to 75 days in jail after stealing Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi's podium throughout the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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The Florida man who pranced round with Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s podium throughout the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was sentenced to greater than two months in jail Friday. 

Adam Johnson — who as soon as boasted that a picture of his shenanigan “broke the Web” — was sentenced to 75 days behind bars by a federal choose in Washington, DC, for one rely of getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing or floor. 

Johnson pleaded responsible in November and also will have to finish 200 hours of neighborhood service as a part of the sentence. 

He was a part of a pro-Donald Trump mob who roamed the Capitol constructing that day and inspired his fellow rioters to interrupt down an entrance onto the Home ground by utilizing a bust of George Washington, prosecutors stated in a sentencing memorandum filed in his case. 

He yelled to rioters that the bust of Washington would make a “nice battering ram” as they tried to breach the doorway, in keeping with the court docket submitting. 

However Johnson is most acknowledged for posing for pictures with Pelosi’s podium, which he swiped throughout the siege and carried into the rotunda of the Capitol. 

Johnson gloated about changing into well-known on-line.

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After a photograph that confirmed him gleefully smiling whereas carrying the rostrum went viral on the Net, Johnson boasted to buddies in textual content messages that he “broke the Web” and that he was “lastly well-known.” 

At his sentencing Friday, Johnson claimed that he doesn't hate Pelosi and stated posing for the pictures with the rostrum was “silly.” 

“I bear no unwell will towards her or her workplace in any respect,” Johnson stated, in keeping with The Related Press. 

Johnson turned himself in two days after the riot and cooperated with prosecutors after his arrest. 

Johnson has claimed he has no hatred of Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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His legal professionals wrote in a court docket submitting earlier than sentencing that he was being punished partly due to the viral picture that confirmed him with Pelosi’s lectern. 

“Arguably, if he latched onto another piece of presidency furnishings for his picture alternative, jail time wouldn't even be a consideration,” they wrote. 

With Publish Wires