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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Why should the architect get the money?
Anybody doing time for torching the church in DC during the “Summer of Love” in 2020?
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?
no such thing as QAnon ... it is a media fabrication ...
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.
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.
He should be swinging from a rope...
There are two forms of justice under this DOJ.
travesty of justice, compared to similar crimes. What happened to all those woke new sentencing guidelines?
How many thousands of rioters in 2020 assaulted police officers and weren’t even charged with a crime?
What I hear them saying is, this man is an American patriot.
#Convoy
#RefuseToComply
“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.
At least he had his day in court. How many Jan 6 defendants are still waiting?
I dont understand why they use months. Why not just say 3 and half yrs
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.
“Qanon conspiracy”, LOL
They aren’t getting any smarter out there.
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.
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