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Man who stormed Capitol with gun gets 87 months in prison
Spectrum News ^ | August 1, 2022

Posted on 08/01/2022 1:05:20 PM PDT by Coronal

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas man convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun helmet and body armor was sentenced on Monday to 87 months — more than seven years — in prison, the longest sentence imposed so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.

Prosecutors said Guy Reffitt told fellow members of the Texas Three Percenters militia group that he planned to drag House Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of the Capitol building by her ankles, “with her head hitting every step on the way down,” according to a court filing.

Reffitt was the first person to go on trial for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, in which supporters of then-President Donald Trump halted the joint session of Congress for certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich presided over Reffitt's jury trial.

Justice Department prosecutors recommended a 15-year prison sentence for Reffitt, who already has been jailed for approximately 19 months. They said he was a militia group member who intended to drag lawmakers out of the building and take over Congress to stop the certification of the Electoral College vote.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; bidenvoters; dabneyfriedrich; didntstormthecapitol; j6; theusualsuspects
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To: Coronal

Dragging pelosi out and her head hitting every step on the way out. That gives a funny image.


21 posted on 08/01/2022 1:26:20 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Yo-Yo
> Gotta watch out for those deadly handgun helmets. <

I think the author just missed a comma. But then again he could be referring to the Pratt Helmet Gun.


22 posted on 08/01/2022 1:26:58 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Coronal

Where’s the FBI as defendants trial for storming private homes with guns, for political reasons?


23 posted on 08/01/2022 1:29:40 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: NWFree

😁


24 posted on 08/01/2022 1:30:12 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Boomer
I didn’t think anyone who went into the capitol building was armed that day.

From the article:

Reffitt was armed with a Smith & Wesson pistol in a holster on his waist, carrying zip-tie handcuffs and wearing body armor and a helmet equipped with a video camera when he advanced on the officers, according to prosecutors. He retreated after an officer pepper sprayed him in the face, but he waved on other rioters who ultimately breached the building, prosecutors said.

Sounds like he wasn't in the building.

25 posted on 08/01/2022 1:30:42 PM PDT by TankerKC (Be first with the truth. )
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To: Coronal

If Republicans take over leadership of the House and the Senate in 2022 (I hope conservatives) and Trump is re-elected in 2024, it will be a huge struggle to get the country back on even keel...Our federal law enforcement , judicial, and governmental departments are so totally screwed up, it will be a task....


26 posted on 08/01/2022 1:31:19 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: elpadre

some of the protestors exercised their constitutional right to bear arms and had weapons on their person. But none of the protestors ever drew their weapon.


27 posted on 08/01/2022 1:33:02 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Coronal

Sounds like his heart was in the right place.


28 posted on 08/01/2022 1:33:27 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Coronal

Capital but not building apparently.


29 posted on 08/01/2022 1:34:03 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Boomer
I didn’t think anyone who went into the capitol building was armed that day.

Except the piece of shit that killed Ashli Babbitt. Who by the way, has never been charged.

30 posted on 08/01/2022 1:34:32 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Coronal

in which supporters of then-President Donald Trump halted the joint session of Congress for certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.

three lies in half a sentence??? What’s more to be said?


31 posted on 08/01/2022 1:34:48 PM PDT by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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To: elpadre
I don’t recall anyone entering the Capital on Jan 6 being armed. Some had weapons in their cars parked elsewhere but in the Capital were unarmed. Where did this one come from????

Exactly!

32 posted on 08/01/2022 1:35:16 PM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: TankerKC

Armed and “going towards officers” is a good way to die.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


33 posted on 08/01/2022 1:36:09 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Yo-Yo

“Gotta watch out for those deadly handgun helmets.”

And storms. I’d imagine if you went in with a storm you could get electrocuted. It was amazing that Joe Btfsplk never got electrocuted as I’d imagine him when someone goes “storming.”

Joe Btfsplk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Btfsplk


34 posted on 08/01/2022 1:36:39 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: TexasFreeper2009
some of the protestors exercised their constitutional right to bear arms and had weapons on their person. But none of the protestors ever drew their weapon.

D.C. is a gun free zone. It is next to impossible to get a concealed carry permit in D.C. Just possessing a bullet is a major crime there.

35 posted on 08/01/2022 1:38:56 PM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: Coronal

This is the guy that his own young son turned him in to the FBI, I believe! I think he even testified against him. But no, he never entered the capitol.


36 posted on 08/01/2022 1:39:52 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (No!)
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To: Boomer
" I see he never went into the Capitol."

he never went into the capital with a holstered helmet gun. Trying to figure out what that is.
7 years.

the inquisitions continue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnF1OtP2Svk

i hope Trump can pardon him in a couple years.
37 posted on 08/01/2022 1:40:13 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Leaning Right

Aspirin not included.


38 posted on 08/01/2022 1:42:10 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Yo-Yo

At his trial, Reffitt’s 19-year-old son Jackson — who turned his father in to law enforcement — told the jury that he had learned of his father’s membership in the mob when he saw his mother and sister watching news coverage of the events that day. Jackson described the threat his dad had made against him and his sister, Peyton, when they tried to turn him in: “If you turn me in you’re a traitor, and traitors get shot.”


39 posted on 08/01/2022 1:43:36 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Apparently one of his daughters was calling for Trump to be imprisoned for life.


40 posted on 08/01/2022 1:44:30 PM PDT by Coronal
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