First rioter to enter Capitol during Jan. 6 attack is sentenced to over 4 years in prison
First rioter to enter Capitol during Jan. 6 attack is sentenced to over 4 years in prison
A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack on the building has been sentenced to more than four years in prison
WASHINGTON -- A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol during a mob's attack on the building was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison.
A police officer who tried to subdue Michael Sparks with pepper spray described him as a catalyst for the Jan. 6 insurrection. The Senate that day recessed less than one minute after Sparks jumped into the building through a broken window. Sparks then joined other rioters in chasing a police officer up flights of stairs.
Before learning his sentencing, Sparks told the judge that he still believes the 2020 presidential election was marred by fraud and “completely taken from the American public."
“I am remorseful that what transpired that day didn't help anybody,” Sparks said. “I am remorseful that our country is in the state it's in.”
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who sentenced Sparks to four years and five months, told him that there was nothing patriotic about his prominent role in what was a “national disgrace.”
“I don't really think you appreciate the full gravity of what happened that day and, quite frankly, the full seriousness of what you did,” the judge said.
Federal prosecutors recommended a prison sentence of four years and nine months for Sparks, a 47-year-old former factory worker from Cecilia, Kentucky.
The DOJ asked for 57 months. It’s not a good idea to tell the judge that you’re only remorseful because it didn’t succeed.
That’s a very light sentence for treason.
Indeed. These babies should be happy they weren't put up against the wall like they probably deserve. Same with the people plotting the attempted coup being run at the same time.
Instead we hear about how they are "political prisoners" and so on. Well fuck that noise.
Would love to see some kind of therapy to help de-program his cult veil of what actually happened, and to work through why it's him paying the price right now instead of the cult leader.
No consequences for the assholes that started the lies to get their dumbass voters to raid the capital to overthrow the nation.
That’s it? 4 years? He will be out before next insurrection gala
4 years huh? Someone remind me how much time people serve for getting caught with pot?
Actually, don't.
no more than.
FOX “News” + the poorly educated + a shameless lying conman = Jan 6
The real tragedy is the main culprit has been given tacit approval by the $upremecy Court.
*insurrectionist Traitor also works.
They are not rioters
Seems pretty clear cut. Anyone entering that building unlawfully wanted the results to be overturned and all legal options to change the result were exhausted. That's insurrection.
In Checkers everybody's expendable except the guy moving the pieces.
For the love of Pete, stop calling these terrorists "rioters".
Calling them implies that none of this was planned.
Sparks used social media to promote conspiracy theories about election fraud and advocate for a civil war. “It’s time to drag them out of Congress. It’s tyranny,” he posted on Facebook three days before the riot. [He and a friend] wore tactical vests.
Hard to argue innocence with all that.
Sparks added: “All it’s going to take is one person to go. The rest is following,"
He wasn't wrong.
These sentences should all be ~10x
What bakes my noodle is: that this guy and presumably almost half of voters firmly believe that the 2020 election wasn't accurate. Factor in that like a third of the population doesn't even vote...
I don't know what that adds up to, but I don't like it.
Is it always like this? Does it matter? Idk, bums me out.
Four more years!
Based. He should be permanently barred from going back to the Capitol as well.
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