Capitol rioter gets 34-month term for assaulting police and journalist

[swag]

Source: Washington Post

A former carpenter from Pennsylvania who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers and a photojournalist during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Friday to 34 months in prison after apologizing in court for his actions and saying he behaved like “an antagonistic jerk” on the day of the siege.

“Regretfully, I let my emotions get the best of me, and I’m very disappointed,” the defendant, Alan W. Byerly, 55, told Judge Randolph D. Moss in U.S. District Court in Washington. “But make no mistake: This was no excuse for me to put my hands on anyone. … I was being an antagonistic jerk, and I still can’t understand why I was like that.”

Byerly, a divorced father and grandfather who had lost his carpentry job during the pandemic, said he was experiencing “depression, frustration and isolation” when he traveled to Washington to attend President Donald Trump’s incendiary rally Jan. 6 on the Ellipse, at which Trump repeated his debunked claim that rampant voter fraud had led to his defeat in the 2020 election.

Carrying an electric stun device “for protection,” Byerly said, he then joined thousands of Trump supporters as the mob stormed the Capitol while Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election. Later, in the months before his July 2021 arrest, Byerly said, “I felt so bad” about the riot that “I wouldn’t even tell the closest people in my life about January 6th.”

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[Botany]

1. Alan W. Byerly, "I let my emotions get the best of me, and I'm very disappointed."

[SouthernDem4ever]

8. you and every other republican that supports trump and his minions

[Botany]

9. The cops should have cracked his head wide open with their billy clubs or their "slap jacks"

a slap jack

[ancianita]

2. The DOJ's 297th sentencing.

452 still stand convicted. What's puzzling is why they haven't yet been sentenced, since at least half of them have been convicted since April of last year.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. That is troubling. Wonder what is going on? Anyone?

[jgo]

14. Yeah - why?

[Cha]

3. Have fun in Prison Stupid Treasonous

Dumbshit.

[Initech]

4. This is precisely why I'm scared of these assholes regaining power.

[halfulglas]

5. A passive aggressive apology for mega aggressive action.

These people who make an apology as if somebody else did the crime. It was because he was depressed, you know. The real him would NEVER have been violent or destroyed property.

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. There were no Applebees in downtown D.C. and so he was REALLY PISSED OFF!!

Had to take it out on someone. Hey, look there's a cop...

Also, I am in the trades. NO tradesmen lost their jobs because of the pandemic. There was more work than EVER. Everyone wanted to renovate or build a home office or make a "covid haven" porch or whatever. Flat out from then till now.

That guy is just a whiny loser. Oh, and now a convicted, and sentenced, insurrectionist. A big loser with time in the Gray Bar Hotel to think about his lot in life. Good luck finding any work when you get out, loser.

[WhiteTara]

6. I was being an antagonistic jerk

is not what he was being. He was being an armed domestic terrorist.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. yepper!

[paleotn]

12. That's all?

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A pity we're not in the developing world. For all their problems, they DO know how to handle coups.

[Permanut]

13. Penalty for assault in Oregon:

First degree assault in Oregon is a Class A felony which will result in punishment of up to 20 years in prison and fines up to $375,000. Second degree assault in Oregon is a Class B felony which will accrue up to 10 years in jail and fines up to $250,000.

Okay, so this is not an Oregon case, just a perspective from where I live. 34 months is a little slap on the wrist, and we are seeing a lot of this.

[COL Mustard]

15. Sounds like a felony to me

No voting, no gun ownership. Not bad, and we only have to pay room and board for 3 years or so.

[NutmegYankee]

17. Almost every state now allows voting for felons.

The lifetime ban thing is only a handful of former Confederate states.

[COL Mustard]

18. This is a Federal felony

Not sure the State plan can override that. But I'm not a lawyer, and I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn last night!

[NutmegYankee]

19. The states decide the qualifications for who can vote per the Constitution.

It doesn't matter if the felony is a state or federal offense.

[COL Mustard]

20. I did not realize that.

I thought they could only override State felonies. Well, at least he won't be voting in 2024!

[NGeorgian]

16. Electric stun device should get 34 years!

!

[Heather MC]

22. Agreed!

[Heather MC]

21. Wow 34 lousy months for beating a cop. MUST BE NICE TO BE White 🤷🏾‍♀️

I'm sorry there were plenty of depressed and sad people during the pandemic and they didn't go to Washington DC with the stun gun and beat up police officer

Did the courts really fall for his Bullshit excuse?

I've seen video of police officers just shoot a man for being mentally ill
But this guy can go all the way to Washington DC with the stun gun and only get 34 months in prison.

This country put a black man in prison for 50 years for stealing $50.

But this guy gets 34 months for beating up a cop. because he was depressed 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾

You wonder why this democracy is so easily toppled. They put a group of people in charge to think they're better than everybody else. And now not even this government here is to control them properly because 34 months is pathetic.

[msfiddlestix]

23. Is he serving his time immediately, or does he get to remain free while waiting on appeal?

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Emotions or pure blood lust?? Think about it for three years you fucking traitor.

[ck4829]

25. K&R