Nicholas Languerand pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon during a riot on January 6, 2021.
A U.S. judge has sentenced a man to 44 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of felony criminal mischief. last year January 6 attack at the US Capitol and bragging about what he did on TV.
The defendant, Nicholas Languerand, has been in prison since his arrest in April 2021 in the U.S. state of South Carolina and has received a long-term loan.
Prosecutors have handed down a 51-month sentence, but U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington said Wednesday that a “slight reduction” was appropriate because of Languerand’s lifestyle, including what the judge described as “extremely difficult parenting and turmoil”.
When Languerand was a child, his father deliberately set fire to the caravan where he and his mother lived, and was about to be killed, Languerand’s grandmother told the judge in court.
Languerand pleaded guilty in November to one count of assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon. Authorities said he threw objects, including an orange barrier, at police and took the police shield on January 6, 2021. He was 26 years old at the time of the complaint.
Languerand bragged about the attack on social media, and vowed “sometime we will come back with a gun”.
His defense lawyer asked him to stay in prison for a year and a loan for the time he spent in prison, saying Languerand had shown a willingness to work and abide by the law, despite his pain and suffering.
A group of people who were followers of former US President Donald Trump entered the Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 6 last year after Trump’s inauguration. to speak harshly near the White House in the past.
For weeks, a Republican leader falsely accused the US presidential election of fraud, and urged his supporters to “fight like hell” hours before the riots.
US House of Representatives later undisputed a Republican leader for “terrorist causes”.
On the anniversary of the massacre, US statesman Merrick Garland he promised ensuring fairness and accountability for what happened.
Garland said the U.S. Department of Justice filed more than 725 cases in the January 6 trial.
Serious criminal charges have been filed against those accused of police brutality and taking part in a plot to overthrow Congress of Congress confirming the victory of President Joe Biden, which took place when the riots broke out.
“So far, we have filed more than 325 cases – most of them for assaulting police officers, and many more for obstruction of justice, or attempted to overthrow the government,” Garland said at the time. “The 20 accused defendants have already pleaded guilty.”
