Assault of Capitol: a partisan of Trump sentenced to five years in prison

Robert Scott Palmer, 54, had launched various projectiles on the police to try to enter the confining of the Congress on January 6th. It is the heaviest sentence hit so far against one of these rioters.

Le Monde with AFP

Cap “La Florida for Trump” on the head and jacket in the colors of the American flag, Robert Scott Palmer, 54, had launched planks, fire extinguisher and other objects on the police during the assault of the Capitol January 6th. He was sentenced on Friday, December 17, five years in prison. It is the heaviest sentence imposed so far in the multiple procedures open as a result of January 6th.

That day, this partisan of Donald Trump had tried to enter the emblematic building of American democracy. Pushed by the pepper gas used by the security, he had continued to throw projectiles of all kinds on the police, to be touched by a rubber bullet.

The Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected his written excuses in his hand, in which he began to have been fooled by the former president, which he qualifies as “tyrannical.” “I realized that we were lying “,” he wrote, speaking supporters of President Trump.

But the Prosecution had pointed out that after these convictions recorded in October, Robert Scott Palmer had defended his action that day, while the description of an online junner launched to support him rejected the responsibility of Violence on the police.

“Saboter a democratic election”

“Mr. Palmer has joined, informedly, a group of rioters with the precise intention of interfering in the national electoral process,” the Prosecution recalled in a document for judges. “Mr Palmer’s violence was intended to pursue his political goal: to sabotage a democratic election and the peaceful transition of power,” the Prosecution added.

On January 6, thousands of followers of Donald Trump rushed to the Congress where they had entered the force to prevent American elected representatives from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential.

To date, the heaviest sentence for these events had been 41 months in prison – just over three years – for two men, convicted of procedural obstruction. More than 700 people are continued as a result of this attack, most of them for minor offenses, such as unauthorized entry within the Capitol.

But dozens of them are also covered by heavier lawsuits, including aggression, lethal weapon use and criminal association.

/Media reports.