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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Dec 12, 2021, 04:34 PM Dec 2021

Trump Rioter Who Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher Should Serve 5 Years, Feds Say

An enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump who assaulted law enforcement officers with a fire extinguisher while wearing an American flag sweatshirt emblazoned with Trump’s name should serve more than five years in federal prison, Justice Department prosecutors said Friday.

Robert Scott Palmer was arrested 12 days after he was identified in a March HuffPost story as the Capitol rioter who assaulted cops with a fire extinguisher as they tried to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6. He has been locked up since he pleaded guilty in October to assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, inflicting bodily injury.

Judge Tanya Chutkan will sentence Palmer, who committed his assault on officers while wearing a red “Florida for Trump” hat, on Dec. 17. In a sentencing memo Friday, federal prosecutors sought 63 months behind bars.

Palmer will be the first Capitol defendant to be sentenced for a felony assault in connection with the brutal attack on law enforcement at the tunnel on the west side of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Video showed him spraying embattled officers with the contents of a fire extinguisher and then chucking the empty canister at the police line.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-rioter-attacked-cops-fire-194910104.html

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Trump Rioter Who Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher Should Serve 5 Years, Feds Say (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2021 OP
These guys never commit one crime jmowreader Dec 2021 #1
At least 5 years, I hope Poiuyt Dec 2021 #2
See ya, Bobby Leghorn21 Dec 2021 #3

jmowreader

(50,560 posts)
1. These guys never commit one crime
Sun Dec 12, 2021, 04:41 PM
Dec 2021

I’d like him to receive 45 months for his worst crime, and 27 for his lesser ones…all served consecutively.

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