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QAnon follower from South Carolina who admitted he assaulted officers on January 6 sentenced to 44 months in prison
CBS News ^ | January 26, 2022 | Robert LeGare and Jacob Rosen

Posted on 01/26/2022 6:51:44 PM PST by Coronal

Washington – A South Carolina man who traveled to Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021 and later assaulted officers outside the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 44 months in jail on Wednesday.

Nicholas Languerand, an avowed follower of the QAnon conspiracy, pleaded guilty in November to assaulting officers and faced a maximum of 20-years prison sentence. However, prosecutors asked the court to sentence Languerand to 51 months.

While Languerand admitted he had participated in the assault on the Capitol, investigators say he showed little remorse and even indicated that he wanted to see more violence, alleging he had sent a message to an associate that read, "Violence isn't always the answer but in the face of tyranny violence may be the only answer," and "Next time we come back with rifles."

"I got some good shots in," he also allegedly wrote about his attacks on police.

This is one of the longest sentences handed down to a January 6 defendant yet. Robert Palmer, another man accused of assaulting an officer, received 63 months.

Languerand will get credit for the over nine months that he has served, and was ordered to pay restitution of $2,000 to the architect of the Capitol, who estimated that the attack caused about $1.5 million in damage to the Capitol building.

"The defendant engaged in, and pleaded guilty to, an extremely dangerous offense," Judge John Bates said. "It strikes at the very heart of the democratic rule of law."

Prosecutors alleged that Langueand had thrown "a variety" of dangerous objects at police, including an orange traffic barrier and stick-like objects he seemed to have obtained from the surrounding crowd attacking the Capitol.

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1 posted on 01/26/2022 6:51:44 PM PST by Coronal
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To: Coronal

Why should the architect get the money?


2 posted on 01/26/2022 6:55:11 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why he would)
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To: Coronal

Anybody doing time for torching the church in DC during the “Summer of Love” in 2020?


3 posted on 01/26/2022 6:56:02 PM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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To: Coronal

Prosecutors alleged that Langueand had thrown “a variety” of dangerous objects at police, including an orange traffic barrier and stick-like objects he seemed to have obtained from the surrounding crowd attacking the Capitol.


Did he loot and burn, too?


4 posted on 01/26/2022 6:56:32 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Coronal

no such thing as QAnon ... it is a media fabrication ...


5 posted on 01/26/2022 6:57:48 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Coronal

Never brag about hitting a federal cop, let alone include selfies and your real name, online. Federal prosecutors don’t mess around. Still, he threw a can of bear spray and a rubber traffic cone. Pretty mild compared to the bricks, fireworks, frozen water bottles, molotov cocktails and chunks of concrete that leftist protesters used in their “mostly peaceful” battles with cops.


6 posted on 01/26/2022 7:03:14 PM PST by ETCM
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To: Flick Lives

Or surrounding pedestrians on NY sidewalk and beating them down? Or viciously beating the woman at the BP gas pump next to her car? Or filling garbage bags in a store with thousands of dollars of loot and leaving (no arrests).

Many stories end in “no arrests” or “no suspects” or police are reaching out to ask if anyone has any information on the suspects who got away.


7 posted on 01/26/2022 7:07:36 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Coronal

He should be swinging from a rope...


8 posted on 01/26/2022 7:11:10 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Flick Lives
Anybody doing time for shooting an unarmed non-violent helpless protester dead at point blank range?

There are two forms of justice under this DOJ.

9 posted on 01/26/2022 7:27:18 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Coronal

travesty of justice, compared to similar crimes. What happened to all those woke new sentencing guidelines?


10 posted on 01/26/2022 7:33:35 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: Coronal

How many thousands of rioters in 2020 assaulted police officers and weren’t even charged with a crime?


11 posted on 01/26/2022 7:38:31 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Coronal
Nicholas Languerand, an avowed follower of the QAnon conspiracy.

What I hear them saying is, this man is an American patriot.

#Convoy

#RefuseToComply

12 posted on 01/26/2022 7:46:14 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Coronal

“It strikes at the very heart of the democratic rule of law.”

You could say the exact same thing about the feds refusing to prosecute Black Lies Matter and Antifa rioters, looters, vandals, and arsonists.


13 posted on 01/26/2022 8:18:35 PM PST by euram
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To: Coronal

At least he had his day in court. How many Jan 6 defendants are still waiting?


14 posted on 01/26/2022 9:06:23 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Coronal

I dont understand why they use months. Why not just say 3 and half yrs


15 posted on 01/26/2022 10:05:24 PM PST by roving (vaxxers are pro-abortion. )
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To: Coronal

Those January Sixers sure are a low I.Q. bunch. Every one of them is pleading guilty to everything. A real bunch of retarded morons.


16 posted on 01/26/2022 10:16:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Coronal

“Qanon conspiracy”, LOL

They aren’t getting any smarter out there.


17 posted on 01/26/2022 10:38:43 PM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: roving
"I don't understand why they use months."

Most of the CBS target market can't do long division - especially with a double digit number like 12. It makes the sentence seem longer than it really is.

18 posted on 01/27/2022 5:02:14 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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