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Arguably America's Most Disrespectful Insurrectionist, Richard "Bigo" Barnett, Is Heading To Prison [1]
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Date: 2023-05-24
Over two years later justice is finally being exacted on this asshole...
It wasn’t the 7 years prosecutors were hoping for, but this jackass is going to jail...
x FLASH: Judge sentences Richard Bigo Barnett to 54 months in prison … in US Capitol riot case — Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 24, 2023
Richard "Bigo" Barnett was arrested just two days after propping his feet on Speaker Pelosi’s desk...
CBS News
Richard "Bigo" Barnett is set to appear before Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in the afternoon. A photo of Barnett seated at a desk in then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office became one of the most indelible images of Jan. 6. Prosecutors asked the judge to impose a sentence of more than seven years behind bars, noting he admitted to entering the Capitol wielding a stun gun and carrying an American flag. "Barnett traveled to D.C. for January 6 with the intent to disrupt Congress, and he anticipated and prepared for violence," the government argued in its sentencing memorandum. Prosecutors do not allege he engaged in any physical violence that day.
He’s been an uncooperative defendant, fighting the process all the way, including blaming the government for the violence that day.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
A federal judge in the District of Columbia has denied Richard "Bigo" Barnett's motions for acquittal or a new trial. U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order late Tuesday, on the eve of Barnett's sentencing, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. today. (snip) Barnett faced enhanced charges for carrying a dangerous weapon -- a stun gun -- into the Capitol. While in the building, he posed for photographs with his foot on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office suite. (snip) "He unlawfully carried a dangerous stun gun into the Capitol and interfered with law enforcement's ability to control the riot by threatening an officer and refusing orders to leave the building," Cooper wrote in Tuesday's order.
This dude’s just fucking rude...
x Sentencing for Richard Barnett (aka Bigo) will be underway shortly. He stayed on brand during his FBI interview, popping his foot up on the table just like he did at Pelosi’s office. pic.twitter.com/ZGTuCsBCU3 — Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 24, 2023
Completely insolent...
WUSA9
A jury deliberated for less than three hours in January before convicting Richard “Bigo” Barnett, 62, of Gravette, Arkansas, of eight criminal counts – including felony charges of civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding and entering and remaining in a restricted building with a dangerous weapon. Jurors rejected Barnett’s testimony claiming he’d inadvertently wound up in the Speaker’s office suite while looking for a restroom and that the 950,000-volt stun gun walking stick he’d brought to D.C. – and repeatedly showed off in a hotel bar the night before the riot – had been inoperable by the time he reached the Capitol. Prosecutors argued Barnett had come to D.C. “prepared for violence.” Since his arrest just days after the riot, Barnett has been outspoken in his criticisms of the Justice Department and the police who defended the Capitol – who he accused at trial of assaulting protestors and instigating the attack on the building. Prosecutors said he had also tried to profit from his notoriety and entered a recorded jailhouse phone call into evidence showing he’d suggested copyrighting the wording of the crude note he’d left behind for then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reading, “Hey Nancy, Bigo was here, b*****.” In their memo, prosecutors said Barnett also sold autographed photographs of himself with his feet up on what he thought was Pelosi’s desk. (snip) “Barnett recognizes no authority but himself and is willing to do ‘whatever it takes’ to get what he wants, even if it requires haring others, stealing, or breaking the law,” prosecutors wrote.
Totally unrepentant...
x Richard Barnett was found guilty of all eight charges filed against him in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
this would send him to prison for 47 years. pic.twitter.com/hH6GJHMAtW — PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) May 9, 2023
He was convicted on January 23rd of this year, and has now been sentenced to 54 months in prison.
Law & Crime
When photographed with a foot on then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk, Alabama man Richard “Bigo” Barnett joined the ranks of a handful of rioters whose images became synonymous with the attack on the U.S. Capitol. (snip) As he awaits sentencing that could put him behind bars for several years, Barnett argued that he’s facing tougher treatment than he should because of his infamy. “Even though the government admits that he committed no violence, the government is seeking to disproportionately punish him by seeking a sentence of years of incarceration, as if he were part of an insurrection or committed violence, simply because his case is famous,” his attorneys Jonathan Gross and Brad Geyer wrote in a 13-page sentencing memo. Before going to trial, Barnett rejected a plea deal that carried a sentencing range of “70 months to 87 months.” His attorneys claim that sentencing exposure effectively amounted to a “life sentence” for their 63-year-old client.
x Defense makes a (very) extended comparison of unrest in 2020 (including in Kenosha and DC) to the Jan 6 attack.
After several minutes, judge interjects and says “Counsel, address *this* case” — Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 24, 2023
Arkansas Times
A federal judge has granted a defense request to postpone the May 3 sentencing of Richard “Bigo” Barnett, a Gravette man convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. (snip) “Among any other issues the parties would like to raise, the briefs should address the effect of the defendant’s failure to object, or to offer an alternative, to the Court’s definition of the term ‘corruptly’ in the jury instruction on Count 2,” Cooper wrote in his brief order. That count refers to the charge that Barnett “attempted to, and did, corruptly obstruct, influence, and impede an official proceeding … before Congress, specifically, Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote as set out in the Twelfth Amendment” of the U.S. Constitution and federal law. Rioters were protesting the certification of election results that showed Joe Biden defeating Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
Enjoy prison mutherfucker...
x At upcoming sentencing of Jan 6 defendant Richard Barnett, who put feet on desk in Pelosi office area & left vulgar note... Feds seek approx. 7-years prison
Barnett seeks less than 1 year (w/ time served)
Justice Dept argument:
https://t.co/Uz5pSXfsOl pic.twitter.com/saXFfMaunQ — Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 24, 2023
identifying individuals who participated in unlawful conduct during the Capitol Insurrection. New images are added frequently... The FBI continues to seek the public’s assistance inwho participated in unlawful conduct during the Capitol Insurrection. New images are added frequently...
x The #FBI is still seeking information regarding people who committed violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Visit
https://t.co/AWQVD3Hx3Y to see photos and videos from current cases, and if you recognize someone, submit a tip at
https://t.co/t8G7LO4hxu. pic.twitter.com/zxJuYvr8zD — FBI Washington Field (@FBIWFO) August 18, 2021
If you have information about individuals who participated in the largest assault on police officers in U.S. history at the Capitol Riot on January 6th, call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or leave a tip online at the FBI’s website .
If you just can’t get enough information about the terrorists who tried to usurp our democracy, then these links are for you…
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