The man who grabbed Pelosi's podium during the Jan. 6 riot gets 2 months

[orangecrush]

A Florida man who grabbed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's podium and posed for photographs with it during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Friday to more than two months in prison.

The image of Adam Johnson smiling and waving as he carried Pelosi's podium went viral after the pro-Trump mob's attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Johnson placed the podium in the center of the Capitol Rotunda, posed for pictures and pretended to make a speech, prosecutors said.

After driving home, Johnson bragged that he "broke the internet" and was "finally famous," prosecutors said. They argued that his actions at the Capitol "illustrate his sense of entitlement and privilege."


https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1083230184/the-man-who-grabbed-pelosis-podium-during-the-jan-6-riot-is-sentenced-to-prison


So you can break into the U.S. Capitol and walk around with the speakers podium, and get 2 months in jail.


Staggering.

[samplegirl]

1. Not right

These assholes will do it again!

[Cha]

2. Asshole sentencing.

💙

[flying_wahini]

3. That's insulting to Pelosi. Terrible.

[uponit7771]

4. Yep, Spain Circa 1938-ish ...

[spanone]

5. And...

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton sentenced Johnson to 75 days in prison followed by one year of supervised release. The judge also ordered Johnson to pay a $5,000 fine and perform 200 hours of community service. Johnson will report to prison at a date to be determined.

His plea agreement includes an unusual provision that requires him to relinquish compensation from any book, script, song, interview or product bearing his name or likeness, for up to five years.

[Scrivener7]

6. Giving them permission to do it again.