Posted on 12/17/2021 8:05:12 PM PST by Coronal
A Florida man was sentenced to more than five years behind bars Friday for storming the US Capitol on Jan. 6 — the harshest penalty dished out yet over the insurrection.
Robert Palmer, 54, was handed a 63-month sentence after he pleaded guilty in October to attacking police officers during the riot.
“Your honor. I’m really really ashamed of what I did,” he told US District Judge Tanya Chutkan through sobs on Friday.
Federal prosecutors said Palmer, of Largo Florida, was on the “front lines” of the mob attempting to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. Palmer threw a wooden plank at cops before spraying a fire extinguisher that he then also hurled.
He was halted briefly when he was pepper-sprayed by law-enforcement — but then attacked again with a pole, according to prosecutors.
In a handwritten letter to the judge, Palmer said that he and other supporters of former President Donald Trump were “lied to by those at the time who had great power.”
“They kept spitting out the false narrative about a stolen election and how it was ‘our duty’ to stand up to tyranny.”
Palmer — one of several rioters sentenced in Washington, DC, court on Friday — argued it wasn’t fair that he be punished so severely, when the many ringleaders aren’t in jail.
Chutkan agreed — to a point.
“The people who extorted you and encouraged you and rallied you to go and take action have not been charged,” the judge said. “That is not the court’s decision. I have my opinions but they are not relevant.”
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He finally realized that he loved big brother.
Weasel alert...
Florida Man,
.
But the Political aspects
Compared to the Burning,
Looting and Murder crowd
Really Stink.
He should have stuck to sneakin’ sally through the alley.
This should discourage anyone else from following the DAs advice trying for a lighter sentence.
Screw his turncoat self
Exactly!
“Might as well face it you’re a dickhead in love!”
As bad as everyone is crying it was 50 years would be a light sentence.
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan
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A hostage will say anything to lesson pain.
I remember the image but I forgot the music.
It’s better that way.
OK, was this guy really a Trump supporter, or Antifa/BLM/FBI?
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